Need a Little Wiring Help !!!!
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Need a Little Wiring Help !!!!
I'm trying to wire my 3 pu LP like the Peter Frampton model. Neck & bridge on one vol & tone, middle on other v & t. I have the neck & bridge wired right, but when I connect the middle, they seem to cancel each other out. I have a separate wire going from each volume to input. What am I missing???
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Re: Need a Little Wiring Help !!!!
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Re: Need a Little Wiring Help !!!!
Post a picture of what you have. From what I read, the neck and bridge are hooked up like normal except they share the same v and t, the middle Isnt on the toggle, it's always on but you use it's volume to blend it in.
Re: Need a Little Wiring Help !!!!
Need more information. Switch your using, and how the guitar is currently wired. Pictures!
Re: Need a Little Wiring Help !!!!
rock flag and eagle wrote:Post a picture of what you have. From what I read, the neck and bridge are hooked up like normal except they share the same v and t, the middle Isnt on the toggle, it's always on but you use it's volume to blend it in.
This is correct, les paul switch is not capable of giving you the desired effect your wanting. You'd need a more complex switching. Or just add a toggle switch for the middle coil. Then you can have bridge and neck on one volume and middle on the other. Other than that the other volume will act to blend the middle in and out.
If when you mean cancel each other out, you mean when you turn the middle neck volume down it cuts all the volume out, try putting the output of the middle pickup on the middle lug of the pot and the output of the guitar on one side of pot, and ground on the other. That way your altering the middle pickups output to ground and not the output of the guitar itself. It's probably wired with pick up on one side, output in the middle, ground on the other side of the pot.