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Created October 07, 2015
Last modified October 14, 2015
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Summary

Attempt a circuit diagram for a 3 humbucker guitar, where you can have maximum combinations of pickup output.


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I've been trying to produce a circuit diagram for a Strat style guitar that originally had SSH configuration, with the standard 5 way switch giving neck, neck- middle, middle, middle - bridge & bridge. with tone controls for neck & middle coils.

I have replaced the single coil neck and middle pickups with twin rail humbuckers which have the same footprint as a single coil and replaced the original bridge humbucker with a custom Entwistle bridge humbucker. The switches used are DPDT on-on-on (where the contact connections are: 1-2 & 4-5, 4-5 & 2-3, 2-3 & 5-6) the idea is to provide series, parallel & coil cut for neck, middle & bridge with the addition of the bridge coil cut being variable via an additional switch. Also each pickup can be turned on or off giving the additional options of neck - bridge & neck - middle - bridge, which was nor available with the original SSH Strat setup. Each pickup has it's own tone control and at present a single volume control. I have yet to work out the best values for the capacitors I am going to use and what value for the resistor in the treble bleed loop on the volume pot.

As I am unfamiliar with the correct circuit diagram conventions I expect that I have made mistakes in the diagram produced, also there was no symbol for a jack socket so I used a loudspeaker symbol instead. The switches I have used for simple on-off roles could be SPDT but I used what I have available to carry out the project.

I would most interested in anyone's critiques, suggested improvements, etc.


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