Hey I have a wiring mod I want to do but I am stuck as to how to proceed. I'd like to basically hookup my 2 humbuckers so that they go to a stereo output jack, this would allow me to switch between pickups. Thats easy enough by itself, I would just send one pickup to the tip and the other to the sleeve of the jack. However, I would also like to have a killswitch without any visible modification to my Ibanez Jem. I'd like to have a super switch (pup selector switch) and have the pickup on position by what would normally be the bridge/down position, and all the other positions to be "killswitched" positions. I'd like to keep the two humbucker signals separate from each other throughout the guitar wiring. Any help would be appreciated.
Wiring superswitch as killswitch?
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just have it ground the signals, all done.
I could do it with a DPDT, but I dont want to ad any switches to the guitar. I was hoping for some more in depth help than just grounding the signals, I am pretty weak with wiring, and I really dont know which tabs and wires to connect. Can anybody give me a more detailed explanation? Thanks
On the superswitch you only need two of the banks.
Hook pole 2 up to your tip, pole 4 to your ring, then connect the hot wire of each pickup to the 1 contact of each of the poles, connect 2,3,4,5 of those to the ground. Bit of a waste of a superswitch but it'll do the job!
Swap 5 for 1 if the switch is the wrong way around.
Hook pole 2 up to your tip, pole 4 to your ring, then connect the hot wire of each pickup to the 1 contact of each of the poles, connect 2,3,4,5 of those to the ground. Bit of a waste of a superswitch but it'll do the job!
Swap 5 for 1 if the switch is the wrong way around.
I would say wire 5 3 and 1 for sound, 2 and 4 for kill, then you could do some serious machine gun barrage.
No, it isn't. A 5 way, generally has 3 terminals and a common, just like a 3 way switch, but the notch positions (2 and 4) connect 1-2 and 2-3 respectively.
