Members Loxley Posted November 23, 2012 Members Share Posted November 23, 2012 Hey all, I'm building a custom Jaguar right now, and I'm no expert at wiring and could use a diagram. Basically, it's going to have two pickups, but no rhythm circuit nor volume or tone controls. To put it simply, all I want is the standard Jaguar switching (the three switches) and two pickups and an output jack.. that's it! Can anyone tell me how to wire this? Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Danhedonia Posted November 23, 2012 Members Share Posted November 23, 2012 I'm going to sound like SUCH the grandpa, but .... no volume? Rethink, pls. Volume tweaking can be a huge part of tone profiling with all guitars, and esp. single-coil offsets if you are being true to pup configuration (e.g., not using Tele pups). ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Loxley Posted November 23, 2012 Author Members Share Posted November 23, 2012 I have a volume pedal on my board that I prefer to use. To be honest, the only time I ever use a volume knob is either at 100% or 0%. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Danhedonia Posted November 23, 2012 Members Share Posted November 23, 2012 Not at all trying to annoy, but could I talk you into trying the volume knob as a way to tweak tone? It has a different effect than a pedal, changing the shape of the sine wave as opposed to just amplitude. Can't help with the diagram, but when I Googled there was plenty to look at, and IIR Fender's Jag manual (onilne at fender.com) has a wiring diagram. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members honeyiscool Posted November 23, 2012 Members Share Posted November 23, 2012 This isn't hard at all. Jaguar pickup switches are just on-off affairs. Nothing crazy about it. Just ignore the rhythm circuit and volume/tone knob of any diagram. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Loxley Posted November 23, 2012 Author Members Share Posted November 23, 2012 Originally Posted by Danhedonia Not at all trying to annoy, but could I talk you into trying the volume knob as a way to tweak tone? It has a different effect than a pedal, changing the shape of the sine wave as opposed to just amplitude.Can't help with the diagram, but when I Googled there was plenty to look at, and IIR Fender's Jag manual (onilne at fender.com) has a wiring diagram. I appreciate your concern, but honestly, I never ever use volume knobs to tweak my tone because I simply prefer the tone at 100% volume. In fact, I'm hardly a tone freak in the sense of traditional tone seekers. I play noise rock and shoegaze, and this guitar is strictly going to be a balls-to-the-wall treble noise machine. Originally Posted by honeyiscool This isn't hard at all. Jaguar pickup switches are just on-off affairs. Nothing crazy about it. Just ignore the rhythm circuit and volume/tone knob of any diagram. Right, but what about the series/parallel switch? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members honeyiscool Posted November 24, 2012 Members Share Posted November 24, 2012 What series parallel switch? Jaguar doesn't have one. And if it did, series mode would only work when both pickups are on and otherwise there'd be no sound at all. It's the kind of thing that is easy to forget when you're on stage and fumbling with "Where did my sound go?" I'd suggest you use a blade switch like the Johnny Marr Jag. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Loxley Posted November 24, 2012 Author Members Share Posted November 24, 2012 Sorry, I was under the impression that the switch below the other two selectors was for series/parallel. I'd love to use a Johnny Marr configuration, but they don't seem to sell the switch plate for that selector separately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members honeyiscool Posted November 24, 2012 Members Share Posted November 24, 2012 I think there's a guy in the Offset forums that makes those. The other selector is a "strangle switch," it cuts bass and cleans up the sound, especially useful in overdrive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members xrleroyx Posted November 24, 2012 Members Share Posted November 24, 2012 Even Thurston has a volume knob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members honeyiscool Posted November 24, 2012 Members Share Posted November 24, 2012 There is that other option of make that third switch a bypass switch, so you do have the option of running direct. But then you could use no-load pots, too. But be careful. Not having any pot at all, vs. having a volume knob at 10, do not sound the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Loxley Posted November 24, 2012 Author Members Share Posted November 24, 2012 I do like the idea of using the third switch as a killswitch. I'm assuming that I need the rhythm circuit to utilize the strangle switch, no? A no-load pot isn't a bad idea.. I'm sure it's closer to what I'm getting at here.. And yes, I'm aware that no volume pot will give me different results.. but that's kind of what I'm going for with this guitar.. it's a treble machine. Hopefully it won't be too obnoxious, but if it is, it'll be easy to install a volume pot to fix it. Also, Sonic Youth has almost always played nothing but Jazzmasters.. they're pretty mellow tone-wise compared to what I'm going for with a Jag, so that point is moot. I should also point out that I'm putting lipstick pickups in this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Loxley Posted November 25, 2012 Author Members Share Posted November 25, 2012 So, if I went with the two selectors and kill switch idea, what would the wiring look like? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members Danhedonia Posted December 1, 2012 Members Share Posted December 1, 2012 Volume pot thread not dead yet! My taste in music goes to some serious sonic extremes (Flying Saucer Attack, the Dead C, whole bunch of {censored} on Kranky that could clear a yuppie martini bar in seconds). You *STILL* need to consider the difference between amplitude and distortion. Trust that we hear what you're saying, and still want you to have more sounds available. In fact, I'd keep the volume over the tone when it comes to "how many sounds can I get out of this?" Most tone knobs are really sweepy low pass filters - whereas volume adjustment through maniacal fx can lead to all kinds of harmonic goodness. No, you don't need the rhythm circuit to use the strangle switch - that is a filter on the lead circuit only. And most Jags are NOT wired like Mustangs (HIC is correct) .... so maybe you'd like to do that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Wayne2 Posted December 1, 2012 Members Share Posted December 1, 2012 Originally Posted by Loxley Hey all,I'm building a custom Jaguar right now, and I'm no expert at wiring and could use a diagram.Basically, it's going to have two pickups, but no rhythm circuit nor volume or tone controls. To put it simply, all I want is the standard Jaguar switching (the three switches) and two pickups and an output jack.. that's it! Can anyone tell me how to wire this? Thank you. I like your idea. A nice diagram is a available from Seymour Duncan: http://www.seymourduncan.com/support...hematic=jaguarYou're basically going to cross out everything at the top right side of the picture and also cross out the volume and tone pots at the bottom left. I'm not really an expert and don't want to tell you wrong, but I'm sure that there are people around here who could figure the rest out. Or I think I read somewhere SD does custom diagrams... even if they charge a small fee it would probably be worth it not to screw up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Loxley Posted December 4, 2012 Author Members Share Posted December 4, 2012 Sorry to bring this up again, but I need a new diagram. Plans have changed a little.. I was going to use a no-load pot for the volume but I discovered that no load doesn't actually work for volume pots, just tone pots, so I scrapped that idea. Instead, I'm implementing a third switch, an on-on switch, that enables the volume pot or bypasses it. Anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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