Hi All,
Haven't been here for a while - having a baby kept me away..
So about a year ago I "finished" the TL-1TB kit - by "finished", I meant to a level where it's considered complete but the tinkering would go on..
The wiring consists of a 5 way switch, which has the following arrangement:
1. Neck Humbucker
2. Neck Humbucker + Bridge Split Coil
3. Bridge Split
4. Bridge Hum
5. master kill switch
Whilst it's "playable", there has been a few very notable issues, which I hope people on this forum can help.
1. Ground hum.
I forgot to connect the ground wire to the bushings on the tune-o-matic, so it's quite buzzy regardless of which switch setting - but especially positions 2-4 the buzz is worse than single coil on my fender strat.
Can the bushings be "gently" removed and I re-ground the wiring?
2. Position 1, Neck Humbucker tone and volume
I was going to make both humbuckers coil splitable, but I stuffed up the stock neck pick up. Thankfully knowing my likely clumsiness I bought another "stock" ish humbucker online but from memory the resistance was higher, roughly 8-9 k (I suspect they were meant to be LP type humbuckers). After the coil split accident before I left the humbucker as is this time, but once wired up the volume was HUGE, way too big, compared to other positions. It is also very "bassy", i.e. Jazz comping sounds reasonably good, any strumming it's a mess of a sound. At lower volume (like 5/10) it just makes an acceptable tone.
Is there a way of making it "less bassy" without changing the pick up?
I adjusted the distance between pickup and strings to be the "recommended distance", and afraid can't go any lower. Maybe I needed that pickup to go on a dedicated capacitor? The tone pot makes no obvious difference
3. position 3 and 4 don't sound much different at all, I suspected I may have severed the thin wire to connect to the second winding, so both of them are essentially single coils, would explain the buzz.
My plan now is to procure a dual rail single coil and put that in the bridge position, and revert back to the 3-way switch,
1. neck hum
2. neck hum + bridge dual rail
3. bridge dual rail
any tips to make the two "balanced" on volume if the two pots are master volume and master tone?
Thank you all in advance!
EDIT + More info:
The original wiring was based off this...
https://www.seymourduncan.com/wp-con...WSPL_1V_1T.pdf
I noticed that on this one, the volume is 500k pot, whereas the supplied ones from pitbull is 250k I think. The tone pot is not specified.
This wiring diagram also didn't make it 100% clear of the ground cable, hence I missed it.
The new wiring I want to do
https://www.seymourduncan.com/wp-con..._1TH_3B_2V.jpg
I noticed that in this arrangement there are two volumes - is that so the player can dial the volume so they are roughly the same as one may be louder than the other?
i.e. theoretically if it's 1 hum and 1 dual rail, as above, can it be wired in the following arrangement?
https://www.seymourduncan.com/wp-con...H_3B_1V_1T.jpg
edit 2: I am starting to resolve my own issue? The main discrepency between the Sey-D schematics and the PitBull ones are the pot values. The sey-D say to use 250k pots but I think the pitbull supplied ones are 500k for both vol. and tone.
according to this site this could be a solution
https://www.fralinpickups.com/2017/1...ls-humbuckers/
https://www.realparts.com.au/500k-25...ntric-pot.html
My goal for the dual rail is a single coil sounding bridge pickup but noiseless. My Fender Strat has that in the bridge position, a schecter dual rail, which is what I'm after, but one that is voiced for the tele.