Hey guys,

I have this Tiesco pickup I'm trying to patch up for a buddy that has intermittent operation (the pickup, not the buddy). It's not the typical gold foil you see around; quite a bit different. I pulled it apart to look for a bad solder joint or something, and it's got really strange construction methods going on in there. The ground lead is soldered to the casing, the coil is wrapped in paper, and the hot lead just floats; it's not actually connected to anything, and it sure looks...

I have a strat with single coils. Tone on the neck and bridge pickups (middle is wide open). The volume control always works, although sometimes with a slight crackle. The tone controls work, but sometimes they don't seem to be in the circuit. I can roll them both down and nothing happens. Here's the thing, though. The volume works the entire time, and if I jiggle the volume knob there will be a crackle and then the tone controls are in the circuit again...for a while.

It's the standard strat...

I've got three Bourns 82 pots on the way to install in my strat.

There seems to be some confusion on how to install them, so I thought I'd just check with you guys I got the correct idea on hooking them up. I'm not an expert at all with this stuff so I might make some basic mistakes.

They'll be installed on a gold anodized pickguard, so that in itself serves as shielding and is conductive.

If I now take a typical wiring diagram , I would say these are the changes to make:

no extra wires...

Hi guys!

Recently I bought a Squier J Mascis Jazzmaster which I love but since I am not using the Rhythm circuit much, I am trying to find a way to do some mods to it, the ones that would include pretty much the functionalities depicted in this picture =>

I wondered if a similar thing could be done to the Jazzmaster? This is like perfection in my eyes. The jazzmaster would kill with these kind of options.

So, separate set of volume controls, and separate tone control set instead of the...

I know it's crazy... has an old Harmony neck and a piezo in the bridge full wooden box assembled inside of the cardboard one. Neck bolted in from the inside. I took the box apart so I could open the back... fair action but the truss rod access is inside the box... Sounds like a piezo acoustic, not bad.

I recently installed a set of ghost saddles and the acousti-phonic preamp into my Carvin. I am gettign tones of hiss even when both the mag and piezo volumes are turned down. I installe one of these on a friend's strat and do not remember having this much hiss. Is there any way to filter the hiss?

I've seen this done before, so.... I built a vibrati punk console and put it in a guitar subbing photo resistors for two of the pots. No problems there unit works fine. BUT, there is a big difference in volume. The VPC is way WAY louder, than the guitars pickups straight out... It's not the pickups, they're fine. I'm thinking maybe I need a buffer of some kind. something simple, I have a little room on the perf board still, maybe one jfet and some bits... I have an on/on/on microswitch wired in...

Hello, I'm a newbie here.

I tried to rewire my bass to make it passive only using its Humbucker Pup with a B25k volume pot.

The humbacker has 4 colored wires (white, black, red, blue) and shield.

Here is what I did.
Red&Blue taped together, black and shield wires soldered to the Ground, white to #1 terminal of the Vol. pot
(I don't need the blend and coil split function).
Then from #2 terminal, the output wire is soldered to the Tip of the jack.
Also, 2 ground wires from the jack and...

It's a Teletanker... modded Eldrid wiring, flipped controlplate, strat jackplate on the otherside, and the acorn nut behind the bridge adjusts the neck tilt... I'm calling it a 'Macrotilt Adjustment' ... it's a work in progress but it plays well, definitely a one song axe, thing weighs a ton!

Ok, so I have been banging my head against the wall on this one. It is very strange to me that no one out there wants this wiring, but I have search high and low for weeks and can't find a diagram for this. I initially set out to convert one mustang switch to a normal 3-way toggle pickup selector and the other switch to give series/phase/parallel options. The mustang sliders are really throwing me for a loop. I understand how they are working, but those extra two lugs are confusing me. I...

On most humbuckers, I personally prefer the sound of both coils parallel instead of just cutting one coil off. Since I never use a combination of one serial and one parallel, it would be nice if I could get these sounds with one action instead of having to pull on two knobs.

Is there such a things as a 4PDT push/pull pot with a 4pdt switch on it instead of the regular DPDT ?

Sorry if this has been addressed...I can't seem to find any thing out there about doing this and I am frankly starting to believe this isn't actually possible. A friend of mine wants me to mod his le paul for a master volume, two tone controls, and a pickup blender. That is easy, but he doesn't want the 3 way toggle to do nothing. He is convinced that there is a way to wire the guitar so that when the toggle is in the middle position it will essentially give up pickup switching duties to the...

I've got this Yamaha ERB Bass guitar which I'm working on at the moment, I've replaced the original bridge with a new Gotoh bridge that fitted with no mods, I was just wondering if there's anyone who knows what the model number is?.... :hmmm:

Wiring diagrams and setup specs would be appreciated too..... :thumbsup

Here's a pic of the Bass Guitar:

I decided to build a Fuzz Factory with my friend and we succeed in the circuit. Now i am trying to put the circuit into my guitar and we cant seem to find a configuration that works. the switch is a normal 6 prong switch with prongs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. while up 1, 2 and 5, 6 are bridged and while down 2,3 and 4, 5 are. The way we have it now up turns on the circuit by wiring circuit output to the guitar output (1, 2) and links the negative end of the 9v to the circuit ground (5, 6) while down...

Hi everyone. Haven't been around for a while but that's another story entirely. :mrgreen:

I'm building a reproduction of a '77 Gibson RD Artist (actually, more like a '79 but hey) along with the massive Moog designed pre-amp in the rear. Information available here:

What is particularly interesting is this.

Now that's one big sockcooker of a circuit for an instrument.

Has anybody come across this before? I can quite easily do a trace from the schematic:

...however I would be very...

I just got done rewiring my strat with Lace Sensor Golds. I wired it all up about a year or so ago and when I plugged it in the middle pickup sounded like it was out of phase in the 2 and 4 settings (weak thin output). I was pretty damn sure I wired it right. So I finally got around to opening it back up and, sure enough, I had wired it right. The middle pickup must have been wired wrong at the factory. Im posting this in case someone else has this issue and doesn't know whats going on.

Easy...

I have an Ibanez RG1570 that for a really long time had a really weird behavior: some times I would change from bridge pup to neck and when I got back to the bridge pup it would sound thin / harsh / brittle. Some times that would also happen when switching preamps or cables. Once the harshness set in, all I had to do was turn the guitar volume knob to zero for like a second and voila, it got back to normal.

Needless to say I tried lots of possible solutions from installing a brass trem block...

Hi, would anyone have any idea how to wire an old Hi-A ? split coil w/4 pins on each. any info would be most welcome thx :scratch:

Hi,

I'm currently upgrading my (actually my brother's) old Aria Pro II bass (passive CTB series).

It has a precision and a jazz bridge pickup (PJ style).

I may buy a fender US P-bass pickup and a fender US J-bass bridge pickup. Would these match correctly from an output level point of view? I expect to use either one at a time or both, so I guess output level matters?

From the specifications I can find, it's fairly hard to know (to me). :?

I did google for previous records of such...

Hi folks,
My bandmate recently bought a guitar second-hand, an Ibanez RGA32, with a beautiful natural mahogany finish and active Ibanez LZ3 pickups.
The problem is the sound of it : it sounds like a starved fuzz, if at all ! :(

It happened right after the replacement of the batteries (2 x 1.5V AA), and at some point he was receiving radio as well !
The sound is actually very weak, and when you attack the strings harder a loud, badly gated fuzz tone appears.

I did not find the exact...

I bought 2 Slash's Alnico II pro and I want to put on my Les Paul 2 push/pull volume pots so my problem is the conection because the wiring needs red and white cable, but my pickups are single-conductor, so what should i do? there is another kind of conection that allows use push/pull pots with that kind of pickups?. (Sorry about my english, usually I speak spanish)