Members Jkater Posted February 23, 2008 Members Share Posted February 23, 2008 How are the tone controls supposed to work? I read somewhere that the bridge pup should be out of the tone circuit (no tone control to it). That should have quite a significance for the tweaking of the "in between" fourth position. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Machine Gun Posted February 23, 2008 Members Share Posted February 23, 2008 I believe that's the "standard" Fender strat wiring. I'm still trying to figure this out as well, because I've got a set of new pups that *I* want to put in, but I'm digging the way it's wired right now because tone works in all positions. Anyone got a link to a lot of different wiring diagrams for strat? I've googled, but came up with pretty much the same things. Edit: Oh, yeah. How come we don't have a tech forum? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members docjeffrey Posted February 23, 2008 Members Share Posted February 23, 2008 There are dozens of ways to wire a strat. Vintage versions didn't have the bridge pickup attached to a tone pot, but you can easily add a short wire so that it shares the tone pot with the middle pickup. I think that the current American strats are wired that way along with a special pot that takes the pickup out of the tone circuit when it is turned up all the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members csm Posted February 23, 2008 Members Share Posted February 23, 2008 Mu Custom Shop Jeff Beck Strat is wired so that the bridge PU shares a tone control with the middle unit, whereas the Eric Johnson model leaves the middle PU wide open and the bridge PU controlled by the knob that conventionally works the middle one. There's apparently also some alternate wiring in the Jimmie Vaughan sig, but I'm not personally familiar with that guitar. The Deluxe Player Strat has an extra button which activates one of the PUs (either neck or bridge, can't remember), adding the otherwise unavailable options of neck-and-bridge together (for a very cool, funky sound generally only possible on Teles) or all three together. EDIT: I like the idea of this latter mod and have occasionally considered having it done ... tho' I'd prefer to keep the stock look and use a push-pull (or push-push) pot on one of the existing knobs instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mike.sartori Posted February 23, 2008 Members Share Posted February 23, 2008 Before I had mine wired up like the EJ strat, now, I have 1 master volume, 1 master tone, and the third knob is a mid-scoop - it's really cool sounding, I got it for $5 here. http://torresengineering.com/guitmidkit.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jkater Posted February 23, 2008 Author Members Share Posted February 23, 2008 Sounds like nothing wrong with both mid and bridge pup being wired to the tone pot and it's just one the good working way of doing it.Thanks everyone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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