The one thing you can’t do, however, is get your neck and bridge pickups selected at the same time for that Tele middle-position kind of sound). Single-coils, humbuckers, hum/sing/sing, hum/sing/hum, and much more. Cool eh?! The clean and bluesy tones are great. Straight up is QUACK! Strat with a push/pull switch on the neck tone control to allow neck+bridge and neck+middle+bridge pickup combinations. JavaScript is disabled. Next over is the bridge bucker with a lot of beautiful single-coil chime. The downside to this wiring is that the only way we can use a tone on the bridge pickup is in position 2 (bridge + middle). Looks stock (unless you change the knobs, as I like to sometimes use a chicken-head on the Fat-O), but is anything but, and avoids the already-stated tone-suck of other schemes. I set up my Strat originally as he recommends -- standard 5-way, Fat-O in the next spot, master volume, master tone. Bridge Humbucker, 2. I'm going to have one volume control and a tone for neck and a tone for bridge. The tone pots were connected to B2 and B3. Well your wait is over, and today we are going to show you 5 easy Strat mods you can do with a standard 5-way Strat switch. Much may have to do with the great VV pickups, but the switching/pots scheme is the thing that makes the most of them. Next, all you have to do is kick back and play! It’s easy to do. This wiring is great for Strat players who want a simple and easy operation. So what’s a guitarist to do? Bridge Single Coil+Middle 3. Imagine you had a Telecaster with a Neck humbucker and a Bridge Telecaster bridge pickup. In essence, you get all of your traditional Strat tones, plus the ability to get Neck + Bridge (a la Telecaster) and Neck + Middle +Bridge (all pickups at once). Straight up is QUACK! Copyright © 2020 Seymour Duncan. Note: Most of our older guitar parts lists, wiring diagrams and switching control function diagrams predate formatting which would allow us to make them available on this page as PDF files. These two sounds are: • Bridge and neck pickup in parallel. Strat® Wiring Diagram Wire Highest Ohm (K) To Bridge, Lowest to Neck. Strat with a push/pull switch on the neck tone control to allow neck+bridge and neck+middle+bridge pickup combinations. By now you should have a thorough understanding of how to use the 5 way switch to mod your guitar. Have fun with this one! Ok, so why would we do this? An HSS Stratocaster has it's own unique wiring issues. Fig. Guitar wiring diagrams for tons of different setups. Lately I rewired yet again with Eddie's help and a sensational SSH set of VintageVibe low-output pickups. In my 5-year-old voice: “But, I want to have a tone on all my pickups… waaaah.” Well, you may not be able to have an independent tone for each pickup (we only have two), but we do have a nice, easy solution that just may make you drool uncontrollably. Hi i’ve been searching high and low for the right pickup for the bridge on my Strat ultra. Easy to install and sounds great. That easy. The concept behind the 7-sound Strat wiring is that it lets you access the two “hidden sounds” you can’t dial in with your regular Stratocaster’s 5-way switch. And you can modify your Strat to get the same tones! Mixing 250k and 500k pots is a pain. Neck and neck/middle (quack), like normal Strat. Then the bridge bucker. Position 2 Bridge + Middle = Tone 2 or Tone 1, 2. Example 2 Often, you can find the tone-split mod together with the BPTC mod for even more flexibilty— many Strat players favor this one. Neck Coil Tap+Bridge Coil Tap 4. Let’s take this a step further and look at few combinations in how to wire a 5 way switch you can try: 4. GETTING CONNECTED. Adding A Bridge Pickup Switch To A Strat Strats are versatile guitars. You must log in or register to reply here. Your guitar has a 250K volume pot, and your bridge pickup sounds awesome. 1.Position 1 Bridge = Tone 1 or Master Tone 2. This product solves these problems. And I never liked the messy wiring in most guitars. Let’s take second to remember the standard Strat 5-way switch wiring from Part 2 (Fig 1A). For the rest of you let’s jump right in! Position 2 Bridge + Middle = Tone 1 or Master 2. It is dead simple, too. It is loaded with the Lace Sensor package that came with the guitar. 4. Back to Deaf-Eddie as the guy with the answers on all this, for me. Fabulous! Position 3 Middle = Master Tone 2. Looks dead stock; NOT! By doing that, we can get a Bridge + Neck combination by selecting the Bridge pickup on the five-way switch and turning on the Neck … Neck Coil Tap+Middle 5. Position 1 of the 5-way selector switch activates the bridge pickup alone; by engaging your new toggle switch, you can activate both the neck and the bridge pickups together. Santa Barbara, California. HSS Strat Wiring. If a switch is in the center position, the pickup is off. The Gear Page is the leading online community and marketplace for guitars, amps, pedals, effects and associated gear. 1 Fully anticlockwise as - normal Strat. Then the bridge bucker. In Part 2, we walked you through a standard Strat 5-way switch wiring scheme. Eddie wired up a superswitch to give me various killer combos (no bridge-bucker coil-splitting; I just didn't want it, but I'm sure you could), master volume, tone on the neck only, tone on the bridge only, middle pickup straight in. The master tone mod can be used a few different ways. If the switch is flipped toward the neck, the pickup is on in parallel mode. Position 4 Middle + Neck = Tone 1 or Tone 2, 2. For many players the wonderful sound of the Strat is defined by the sound of the neck and middle single coils, and that quacky sound of them both played together, in parallel. Especially the Humbucker. The Gilmour Mod. Didn’t even need an extra wire! Next over is the bridge bucker with a lot of beautiful single-coil chime. 7 sound Strat wiring diagram with three single coils, 5-way lever switch, 1 volume and 2 tones. My latest guitar build will have strat style set up, but with 3 way fender switch (as opposed to 5 way) and only neck and bridge pickups. The most-used sound of a twin humbucker guitar is that bridge pickup with the tightness and definition, especially in heavy music. It is similar to the old Dan Armstrong Super Strat wiring setup, but all three switches are 3 position On-On-On toggle switches. Position 5 Neck = Master Tone 2. 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