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Post subject: Wiring bridge pickup to tone control
Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 8:49 pm
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I'd like a wiring diagram for connecting the bridge pickup to the rear tone control. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, small axe


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Post subject: Wiring tone to Bridge
Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 9:24 pm
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Hi smallaxe101,

I don't know if you need a diagram, if you have a standard 5-way selector switch. If the rear tone is wired for the middle pickup, just follow the wire from the rear tone pot to the selector switch terminal. Unsolder the wire and move it up to the next terminal (the empty one) and resolder, that's all there is to it. You didn't say what kind of Strat that you have, here's a Standard diagram that will work for most strats. :)

http://support.fender.com/diagrams/stratocaster/0134600_02D/SD0134600_02DPg2.pdf

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Post subject: Re: Wiring tone to Bridge
Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 7:58 am
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shimmilou wrote:
Hi smallaxe101,

I don't know if you need a diagram, if you have a standard 5-way selector switch. If the rear tone is wired for the middle pickup, just follow the wire from the rear tone pot to the selector switch terminal. Unsolder the wire and move it up to the next terminal (the empty one) and resolder, that's all there is to it. You didn't say what kind of Strat that you have, here's a Standard diagram that will work for most strats. :)

http://support.fender.com/diagrams/stratocaster/0134600_02D/SD0134600_02DPg2.pdf

Hi guys: though there's another way to do it that is very familiar to many. If you study this diagram you will see on the side of the switch facing the pots a tiny length of wire running between the middle two tags:

http://support.fender.com/diagrams/stra ... 02CPg2.pdf

That little half inch "jumper" wire adds the bridge pickup to the second tone knob, without removing the middle pickup from the circuit. So now both middle and bridge are controlled by the second tone pot; the neck pup gets the first tone control to itself.

Such a popular mod that Fender have included it as standard on many of their Strat models for years.

An option...

Cheers - C


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Post subject: Bridge tone control
Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 9:24 am
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Good alternative Ceri. I guess that many like tone control on the bridge AND middle pickups. I don't care for the position 4 that has 2 tone controls when wired that way. And to me, the middle pickup sounds best "wide open" with no tone control. But the bridge pickup definitely needs tone control, so either way, it is great to have options. 8)

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Post subject: Re: Wiring tone to Bridge
Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 9:28 am
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Ceri wrote:
Such a popular mod that Fender have included it as standard on many of their Strat models for years.


That's the variation I'm using -- very flexible.

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Post subject: bridge tone control
Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 9:28 am
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Thanks for the input, installing new pickguard with ssl5,ssl5 rw/rp, ssl1.


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Post subject: Re: Bridge tone control
Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 9:44 am
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shimmilou wrote:
Good alternative Ceri. I guess that many like tone control on the bridge AND middle pickups. I don't care for the position 4 that has 2 tone controls when wired that way. And to me, the middle pickup sounds best "wide open" with no tone control. But the bridge pickup definitely needs tone control, so either way, it is great to have options. 8)

Right on. Many tastes, many good alternatives.

Strange thing though. For years the "jumper" mod I described above was an absolute requirement to me because, as you say, I wanted to be able to roll off the tone on the bridge pup - though I also like the middle with the treble taken down too: hence the version I suggested. But in recent years I find myself often reverting to the "original" setup Leo gave us: I want the neck rolled way off to about 2-3 on the knob, the middle with the treble turned down about half way, and the bridge wide open. I think that's because I only go the the bridge occasionally in a solo and use that wide open sound for maximum attack when things get nasty. ( :D )

For that reason my '50s style Strats appeal to me more and more - which is a development that would have surpised me a decade ago.

I guess our playing is always changing, isn't it? Thank goodness the Strat offers us such a flexible platform for all these possibilities! 8)

Cheers guys - C


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Post subject: This forum is great
Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 10:22 am
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Can't believe all of the info I'm getting, this is great! Thanks


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Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 10:38 am
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I much prefer the sound of a bridge and mid pickup combination with the bridge pickup wired without a tone control.
That said I like the bridge pickup alone with a tone control.
The deltatone pot just doesnt cut it for me. It seems to make the guitar sound a little harsh when it's on ten. Moreso than having no tone control there.
Guess my only answer is to wire a delta tone to the bridge pickup and have the mid and neck share the other tone control. Use a normal pot for that.

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Post subject: Re: This forum is great
Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2010 6:33 am
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smallaxe101 wrote:
Can't believe all of the info I'm getting, this is great! Thanks

Hi smallaxe101: just for the fun of it, would you like to have your mind boggled? Take a look at the increadible wiring harness Forum user AndyBigHair has just installed in his latest Strat, on this page of a long thread:

http://www.fender.com/community/forums/ ... &start=405

That's guitar wiring performed as a martial art.

And for very interesting and beautifully achieved options that us mere mortals might even consider trying, take a look at the work the great Xhefri does, for example on this thread:

http://www.fender.com/community/forums/ ... c&start=30

Jeff ("Xhefri") is a bit of a legend in the Strat world: that is seriously top drawer action you're looking at there.

You need to scroll back and forth through both of those threads. Lot of excellent stuff to be found in them.

Cheers - C


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Neck and bridge pickup each equipped with a Greasebucket tone circuit and the middle pickup wide open is tone heaven in my book. :D

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Here is another option:

If you want the Bridge pickup on the bottom tone control. On the 5 way switch follow the wires down to the tone pots, now that should be lugs 2 and 3 on the 5 way. If you swap those 2 wires that will put the neck pup tone adjustment on the lower tone control. Now run a jumper from the empty lug (lug 1) to lug 3. That will put tone control for the bridge and neck together on the lower tone pot and the middle pup will have tone control on the upper control.

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Post subject: Re: Wiring bridge pickup to tone control
Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 6:04 pm
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What are the sag amd match controls on my amp do


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Post subject: Re: Wiring bridge pickup to tone control
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jcrouc wrote:
What are the sag amd match controls on my amp do


Other than hi-jacking this thread with a totally unrelated post, I have no idea.

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Post subject: Re: Wiring bridge pickup to tone control
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 6:50 am
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jcrouc wrote:
What are the sag amd match controls on my amp do


Hi jcrouc,

It would be helpful to post on the amp part of the forum, and which amp that you are referring to.

http://www.fender.com/community/forums/viewforum.php?f=13

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