Various ways to utilize a 4-way switch on a Tele...

[Terry Allan Hall]

doing a little customizing on one of my Teles...tell me how you're using a 4-way, please?

[Ratae Corieltauvorum]

Terry, I've done a few with 4 way switch and like:

 

1. Bridge

2. Bridge n neck in parallel

3. Neck

4. Bridge n neck in series

 

[vintage clubber]

Terry, I've done a few with 4 way switch and like: 1. Bridge 2. Bridge n neck in parallel 3. Neck 4. Bridge n neck in series

 

hey Sean -

 

How does that phase switch sound? Does it give it a Peter Green like tone??

 

[webwarmiller]

Just curious as to why you add the phase switch when the same results can be achieved without one?

[Ratae Corieltauvorum]

Y'all taken too much o da brown acid

[Ratae Corieltauvorum]

 

Indeed, yours a more appropriate diagram

 

However I do like da 5 way one too

 

[vintage clubber]

Y'all taken too much o da brown acid

 

that doesn't answer my question...

[Terry Allan Hall]

Terry, I've done a few with 4 way switch and like: 1. Bridge 2. Bridge n neck in parallel 3. Neck 4. Bridge n neck in series

 

That's kinda what I've been contemplating, except I think I'd prefer:

 

1. Bridge

2. Bridge n neck in series

3. Bridge n neck in parallel

4. Neck

 

or:

 

1. Bridge n neck in series

2. Bridge

3. Bridge n neck in parallel

4. Neck

 

Decisions, decisions...

 

The other Tele I'm redoing will (probably) be MUCH simpler...all I'm doing on it is putting a Charlie Christian in place of the original Fender neck p/u...(although a 4-way mght be interesting on it, too).

 

Thanks, all, for the input!

[guitarcapo]

The most common configuration I believe is:

 

1. bridge

2. Neck and bridge in parallel

3. Neck

4. Neck and bridge in series.

 

Mainly because you get a deeper sound progressively from 1 to 4. Wriring two single coils out of phase really sounds bad.

peter Green got away with it because the two pickups were humbuckers and he also benefitted from dual volumes...so you could roll off one pickup a bit and not have it totally tinny sounding. Caps to ground/mud switches sound bad too. I would think that a tone control gives you enough of that.

[vintage clubber]

 

The most common configuration I believe is: 1. bridge 2. Neck and bridge in parallel 3. Neck 4. Neck and bridge in series. Mainly because you get a deeper sound progressively from 1 to 4. Wriring two single coils out of phase really sounds bad. peter Green got away with it because the two pickups were humbuckers and he also benefitted from dual volumes...so you could roll off one pickup a bit and not have it totally tinny sounding. Caps to ground/mud switches sound bad too. I would think that a tone control gives you enough of that.

 

 

thank you! now just so I'm clear on this - neck/bridge in parallel is the stock tele middle switch position on a 3 way switch and neck/bridge in series is the fatter sound you get with a 4 way switch. Is that correct?

[PunkKitty]

Does anyone have something for a 4 or 5 way switch with a single hot and a ground shield? I'm rewiring my Peavey with a set of Surf 90s. I love to tinker with this stuff.

[cuppster]

Better yet, where can one purchase a four-way switch without sending $25 to Fender?

[PunkKitty]

 

Better yet, where can one purchase a four -way switch without sending $25 to Fender?

 

Ebay.

[Belva]

 

Better yet, where can one purchase a four -way switch without sending $25 to Fender?

 

 

http://www.guitarelectronics.com/product/SWL41/4-Way-Guitar-Lever-Switch-Oak-Grigsby.html

[Angry Tele]

fun with 3-way

 

pan

Esquier (direct)

3way in series only