I looked long and hard for suitable pickups for my ESB-4. Love the filtertrons in DearthDamo's ESB-4, but was not sure I could get everything to line up on my bass, which has been having lining-up-issues...a story for elsewhere. So after a long process of elimination, I got some Dano-style alnico pickups. After a bit of surfing to figure out how to wire them, up I got to this page:
http://dennysguitars.homestead.com/D...hematics1.html
It was very helpful, but this is a really odd way to wire up pickups (at least it looks that way to me). At the moment I am planning to wire this like the "modern" Danos...
I struggled quite a bit to understand this...and would not have gotten yet probably if it had not been for this note:
- Front' position grounds out the rear pickup's output, and provides ground for the off side of the front volume pot.
- 'Rear' position connects it's volume pot output to the output jack while the front pickup's leads are looped back onto each other to kill the front pickup.
- 'Both' position removes the switch from the circuit and allows both pickups wired in series to function.
This still seems quite odd to me, from the way it selects the pickups to the pot values. I know the pickups were the same on guitars and basses. Guessing that the pots and caps were the same too? I have not found anything to confirm or deny this...so will go with those values.
Would be really interested in the experience of anyone who has tried something similar...