stoneattic said:
I went ahead and ordered a new trem and figured while I had the strings off I'd like to make a wiring change. I'd like the middle knob to control tone for both bridge and neck pups and the bottom knob to control just the middle pup. My logic here is that since the neck and bridge are never on at the same time they could share a pot .
Has anyone done this particular wiring set up before? I've been looking around and have found lots of alternate wiring, but so far not this setup.
Look at the diagram listed below:
Note the solder lugs on the lower, or tone, side of the switch. The first one on the left is for the neck pickup, the one next to it on the right is for the middle, and the one to the right of the middle where the red cap in the picture is attached, is the bridge tone lug. It's just a matter of moving the other end of the wire to the tone pot that you wish to use for the pickup that that particular lug is responsible for. Once you've done that, then all you have to do is to "bridge" from the neck tone lug on the switch, to the bridge tone lug on the switch. You create this "bridge" by simply soldering a piece of wire from one lug to the other.
To my way of thinking, I'd use the bottom tone control for the bridge and neck, and the middle knob (tone) for the middle. Since I rarely use the tone control on the neck pickup, I rather have the lower tone control mainly for the bridge pickup, and the middle knob (tone pot) for the middle pickup. It just seems more logical an order to me, but you need to do it as it suits you.
Personally, I just dispense with the tone control on the middle pickup all together and use the lower tone control for the bridge and the other one for the neck. I really like the sound of the middle pickup without any tone pot attached, so it works for me. I never had much use for the middle pickup except in conjunction with the bridge or neck pickups, but now I use the middle all the time.
