Members johnbegone Posted November 21, 2007 Members Share Posted November 21, 2007 I bought some GFS Mean 90's to put in my Washburn WI-64DL althought I'm concerned that the tone pots are actually the VCC controls. I'm wondering if anyone had replaced the pickups on one of the idol guitars and kept the VCC in there? I don't have any tone pots to replace them with for now, although maybe I'll look into doing that in the future. I've never replaced pickups, so this is just another confusing thing compiled on top of everything else Any help that someone can provide would be awesome. And I would give you many thanks, since it is Thanksgiving! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members larryguitar Posted November 22, 2007 Members Share Posted November 22, 2007 I think the VCC ('Variable Coil Cut'?) is used with a four conductor humbucker, and works by variably shunting one coil to ground. If that's the case, it won't work at all with the HB sized P90, as there's only one coil in the pickup. Never taken one apart, though, so I could be wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mapdude Posted November 22, 2007 Members Share Posted November 22, 2007 You are correct. It needs a split coil pickup to work. Most don't like them anyway. The vol pots have no taper at all. Volume zooms up till you hit 2 then very little change the rest of the way to 10. VCC just plain sucks IMHO. Don't know about the quality of the pups in a 64, but the Seymore Duncans in the 66 and up are NICE!!!! I got a 66, and I plan to change out the vol pots to audio taper, trash the VCC, replacing with push-pull tone pots to keep the ability to split the coils and also have some real tone control. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members johnbegone Posted November 23, 2007 Author Members Share Posted November 23, 2007 Thanks for the heads up, so I guess I'll need to put in some full tone pots with the Mean 90's. Alright, that's what I needed to know. Is there a good tutorial around that could help me wire this up? If not, I'm thinking about taking into my local tech for this first one, I've done some wiring (cabinets) but I don't want to mess up a guitar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members larryguitar Posted November 23, 2007 Members Share Posted November 23, 2007 Stew Mac and seymour duncan both have wiring diagrams to help you through the wiring part. FWIW, I often put a rotary coil cut on my home-builds, and configured correctly I much prefer it to a tone control. A lot depends on the pickups, obviously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mark7171 Posted November 26, 2007 Members Share Posted November 26, 2007 a 5 way rotary switch, with 250k's pots, wired with solid 22 gauge cloth covered wire, like a PRS . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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