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Post subject: GC-1 Strat (Roland Ready) rewiring tone control
Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2018 11:03 pm
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I have a GC-1 Strat (Roland Ready). All three pickups are routed through one tone control. I would prefer to have more individual control of the tone for each pickup, without adding more knobs. Any thoughts?


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Post subject: Re: GC-1 Strat (Roland Ready) rewiring tone control
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2018 2:06 am
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If you don't use the Ro-Ready capacities, the easy way is to get a new, prewired pickguard and turn it into a "normal" Strat. If you replace and rewire the 2nd Vol to a normal Tone, the RR feature is lost anyways.

Selling that and getting a new guitar is one option.

Quick edit: previewed my post, and since it comes out a bit harsh:
a) just trying to say I don't think your question is possible to execute, and
b) I'm absolutely no wiring guru. :wink:


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Post subject: Re: GC-1 Strat (Roland Ready) rewiring tone control
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2018 2:06 pm
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Even as a "normal" Strat without the Roland interface, you're going to either have two pickups on one tone control, or be missing the tone control on one of the three.

Without making any major cosmetic changes, you can replace the tone pot with a dual pot with concentric controls. That will allow for two separate tone controls like the conventional Strat.
You could run two concentric pots, one as dual-tone and the 2nd one as the 3rd tone plus the Roland volume, but I don't know if you can get the proper value pot for the Roland paired with a 250k secondary.

The problem on the GC-1 and swapping for a pre-wired plate is the Roland output jack on the side would be involved. Leave it and you'd have to disconnect it in a way that can be cleanly restored. If the body cavities are cut so that it can be pulled back out from the control cavity, then it's going to leave a hole in the body.

Even my wife just said "Buy a new guitar, don't mess that one up"
So there you have it... a woman told you to buy a new guitar :D

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Post subject: Re: GC-1 Strat (Roland Ready) rewiring tone control
Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2018 12:49 am
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CB91710 wrote:
The problem on the GC-1 and swapping for a pre-wired plate is the Roland output jack on the side would be involved. Leave it and you'd have to disconnect it in a way that can be cleanly restored. If the body cavities are cut so that it can be pulled back out from the control cavity, then it's going to leave a hole in the body.

Nice catch, I didn't think that far. But there must be a connector between the pickup/jack wires, so the restore option would probably be covered.

Anyways, I'll agree with the wife. As one always should. 8)

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