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My Maton BB1200 has switchable humbuckers and each pickup has its own push/pull volume knob.
It has a 3 way switch for neck / both / bridge pickups and a single tone pot.
This must be a unique circuit as I can't find anything. But it's the perfect guitar circuit for my needs.
Thanks in advance.
Hi Muzza. Good chance Weirdbits has drawn up this diagram or can probably post you one.
Think I can picture the circuit in my mind. Won't be too difficult. So you want to do this for your PRS build?
Is the control cavity big enough for 3 pots?
Something like this?
http://www.guitarelectronics.com/med...2hh3t21_02.jpg
yup!Quote:
Originally Posted by wokkaboy
If it's not it soon will be. - actually 3 pots AND the selector switch.Quote:
Originally Posted by wokkaboy
Hey thanks Weirdbits. Looks like the business.
Is there a standard colour code for North/South/start/finish?
Haha, no. Each company does their own thing. Here is a handy (but incomplete) chartQuote:
Originally Posted by Muzza
http://i479.photobucket.com/albums/r...odeChart-2.png
And Wilkinson are conspicuous by their absence...
Have you got the Wilks yet? Last time I used them they were the "generic" two wire setup.
Yep. They're an 'upgrade' with the centre tap.
Funny. Last night I couldn't find a suitable circuit to save my life. Now that Weirdbits has helped me, I seem to have hit the 'Mother Lode'!
I found this...
http://www.guitarelectronics.com/cat...ring_diagrams/
and it seems to have every configuration you could ask for.
BUT... what's the difference between;
http://www.guitarelectronics.com/pro...Coil-Taps.html
and
http://www.guitarelectronics.com/pro...-Parallel.html
I just thought my guitar was humbucker with the push/pull knob pushed down, and single coil with the push/pull knob pulled up?
Here's a really interesting video if your humbuckers don't appear in pablopepper's list. Like Wilkinson...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UfxQBhqen8
The first link is to a humbucker/single coil diagram. When the pot is 'down' the pickup acts as a normal humbucker, when it's 'up' it cuts out one of the coils so you just have a single coil active (half the pickup).Quote:
Originally Posted by Muzza
The second link is to a series/parallel diagram. A humbucker is normally wired in series, so the signal goes through one coil and then through the other, which cuts out the hum and gives it the traditional warm fat humbucker sound. When the pot is 'down' the coils are in this series configuration. But, in this second diagram, when the pot is 'up' it links the coils in parallel instead (the hot from each coil is linked and the ground from each coil is linked. This still cuts out the hum but gives a completely different sound, more scooped and thin, with a little less volume.
If you want to see which configuration your BB1200 has, just plug it in at low volume and with the pot 'down' gently tap the pup's pole pieces with a screwdriver, then repeat with the pot 'up'. You'll hear the tap if the coil is 'on'. If only one coil is active when 'up', it's humbucker/single coil, if both coils are active when 'up' it's probably series/parallel.
Thanks. I'll try that when it stops raining and I can make a dash to the studio. Although, I'm pretty sure it's a 'humbucker up / single coil down' configuration.
Maton proudly boast that they've been able to engineer a switchable humbucker with no significant volume drop when going to single coil. I wonder how they've achieved that? I can confirm that, in single coil mode, it is definitely louder than my Maton T-Byrd. (Maton's Telecaster offering) (Every bit as good as a Telecaster, I might add.)
(I've got to be careful. People will start to think I can actually PLAY these things...) :rolleyes: