Emulating Seymour Duncan Triple Shot w/ Switches:

I love the functionality of the SD Triple Shot rings, but they can't always be installed on a particular guitar. So, I decided to draw up a way to replicate them with toggle switches or a rotary switch.

I used Seymour Duncan's wiring colors in my drawing. If you have pickups that use different colors, you'll need to do the translation. SD has a chart here:

Pickup Color Codes

Here's the normal way SD pickups are wired (north coils on the inside, south coils on the outside):

So, to duplicate the functionality of a TS ring with 2 SPDT toggle switches, you would wire the switches like this:Attached Thumbnails

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The diagram represents 2 ways of wiring up one pickup. If you want both pickups to switch, you will need 4 SPDT switches or 2 DPDT switches.

In both diagrams, the inside terminals of the switches have 2 wires connected to them.

Here's how the top diagram works:

Both toggles flipped in toward each other gives you the coils in series (normal humbucker).

Both toggles flipped out gives you the coils in parallel.

Both switches flipped to the right gets you the inside coil (north, slug) regardless of whether you wire up a SD neck humbucker or a SD bridge humbucker.

Conversely, if you flip both switches to the left, you will get the outside coil (south, screw coil).

Now, what if when you flip both switches one way, you don't get the coil you wanted? That's what the bottom diagram shows.

One example would be that you are switching 2 humbuckers and you don't want insides & outsides together, but you want your splits to be (a.) the neck side coil of the neck pup with the neck side coil of the bridge pup and (b.) the bridge side coil of the neck pup with the bridge side coil of the bridge pup.

On the pup you want to flip, you would leave the hot out & ground connections tied to the inside terminals of the 2 switches, but reverse the Red & Black wires and also reverse the Green & White wires. That will give you the 2nd set of switching options in the drawing.

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Emulating SD Triple Shot Ring with a Rotary Switch

Now, if you prefer to emulate 4 of the TS ring options with a rotary switch (note that the pup's Black wire is also connected to the Hot Out lead and the pup's Green wire is also connected to Ground):Attached Thumbnails

The 2 versions of the drawing show how to get different splits with the rotary. It's a little easier to make changes on the rotary than with the toggle switches.

Here's a 4 position rotary switch that would work for this:4 Position Rotary Switch | Allparts.com

The switch actually has 4 poles, so you could wire the neck pup on one wafer & the bridge pup on the other wafer to switch both pups at the same time.

It occurs to me that you could get a 6 position rotary switch (like this: 6 position Rotary Switch | Allparts.com ) and wire it up to get all of the TS ring combinations (series/parallel/inside coils/outside coils/neck side coils/bridge side coils), but I've drawn & scanned enough for one day....

After some more thought, the TS rings will give you more than 6 options (like one pickup as a humbucker & the other as a single coil, like PRS is doing now), so even the 6 position rotary won't totally duplicate having 2 TS rings. But, most people would probably say that 1 rotary knob is still easier to deal with than 4 switches. YMMV

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Emulating SD Triple Shot Rings with Push-Pull Pots

Here's a drawing of 2 push-pull pots. I've shown the pots upside down as they (typically) would be when you're wiring them. These could also be push-push pots & they'd wire the same.Attached Thumbnails

If you want the neck side coils when you pull up the left knob (position 3 in my drawing) & the bridge side coils when you pull up the right knob (position 4) (left knob up = left coils, right knob up = right coils), then you need to swap around the bridge pup wires. The bridge Hot Output & the bridge Ground connections stay where they are, but swap the bridge Green & White wires and also swap the bridge Red & Black wires.

BTW, one of the advantages (with pups that have magnetic polarities like Seymour Duncan pups) of using left coils together & right coils together is that the splits are still hum canceling. SD pups have the north coils on the inside & the south coils on the outsides. If you mix inside coils & outside coils, you're connecting south magnets together (outsides) or north magnetics together (insides). If you go with left-left and right-right, you combine north & south magnets.

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OK, here's the updated drawing:

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And here's the alternate order. If you want a different order, let me know. Now that the drawing is in Visio, it's easy to move the wires around to create a new one.

move the wires around to create a new one.

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The wires marked Hot Out & Ground are the ones you would wire up like you would the Black & Green wires of a Seymour Duncan pickup (to the pup switch or the volume pot).

If you want to put a phase reversal switch on a pickup, put it after the rotary and the rotary choices will remain as marked.

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My 5th position is the Bridge humbucker with the Neck P-90. Position 6 is the Neck humbucker with the Bridge P-90.

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I've drawn up the 4 different connections so that you can see them more clearly. I only did 1 version, the other one just reverses positions 3 & 4.

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http://www.strat-talk.com/forum/tech-talk/100121-emulating-seymour-duncan-triple-shot-w-switches.html

Identifying Wires & Polarities - Seymour Duncan P-Rails:

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dois pickups na bridge juntos:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qCLc2TuBNI&feature=related

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http://www.guitar-mod.com/rg_diag_strat.html:

• THE ULTIMATE STRAT VERSION 1 (S-S-S) (with bridge/neck series switch)5 way switch with master volume, master tone, master midrange plus a "blow" switch to engage bridge/neck in series as well as a "neck-on" switch to engage the neck pickup with any other. The nice thing about this is that a player can always fall back on the standard strat 5 way switching, but using mini-switches you can access some very cool tones. Either an SPST switch or a push pull pot is used to engage the neck pup with any other to get the 2 missing sounds, namely neck/bridge (telecaster like) and all 3 on. In addition, a 3PDT switch is used to get a series connection between the neck and bridge pickups which will give you a noticeable boost in both volume and bottom end. Also, the 2nd tone control on this mod is converted into a master midrange control which will cut mids as you

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move down towards 0 (acoustic like) and thicken things a bit as you move towards 10, while staying neutral in the 5 spot.

Here is the control function (B = bridge pup, M =middle pup, N = neck pup)

Series Switch Neck-on Switch Pos 1 Pos 2 Pos 3 Pos 4 Pos 5

OFF OFF B B,M M M,N N

OFF ON B,N B,N,M M,N M,N N

ON OFFB,N in series

B,N in series + M

B,N in series + M

B,N in series + M

B,N in series

ON

ON (note: this has no effect when series switch is engaged)

B,N in series

B,N in series + M

B,N in series + M

B,N in series + M

B,N in series

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http://www.guitar-mod.com/rg_diag_strat.html

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• THE ULTIMATE STRAT VERSION 2 (S-S-S) (with bridge/middle series switch)

http://www.valvetronix.net/forums/stratocaster-wiring-mod-t3191.html

Got all your new tones? Great put the rest of your strings on, that’s it, your done!

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Stratocaster mod wiring - está na pag 3 do google

Individual Pickup Selection

http://www.guitarnuts.com/wiring/sw1.php

Olá Eduardo.

Creio que tenho o circuito que tinha idealizado, mas gostaria de saber algo sobre o mesmo, por isso estou a contactá-lo para ver se compreendo alguns pontos.

Tirei o circuito do site:

http://www.guitar-mod.com/rg_diag_strat.html

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É o seguinte:

1) Midrange sharper 500K - é um pot normal de 500K certo?

2) O Autor deste circuito não tira o botão tone do meio para dar lugar à chave 3PDT – poderia ter colocado um Vol e tone de 500K, antes coloca um Vol e Tone de 250K – e tendo a opção de som BXM – Humbucker - Será assim melhor do que a opção de 2 pot de 500K?

3) Para ser o meu circuito ideal falta um phase reversal em B. Isto é muito fácil de fazer certo?

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 THE ULTIMATE STRAT VERSION 2 (S-S-S) (with bridge/middle series switch)Like the ultimate strat above only this one engages the bridge and middle pickups for the series link. The benefit here is that if the middle pickup is RWRP (reverse wound reverse polarity) this position will then be hum-cancelling.

Here is the control function (B = bridge pup, M =middle pup, N = neck pup)

Series Switch Neck-on Switch Pos 1 Pos 2 Pos 3 Pos 4 Pos 5

OFF OFF B B,M M M,N N

OFF ON B,N B,N,M M,N M,N N

ON OFFB,M in series

B,M in series

B,M in series

B,M in series + N

B,M in series + N

ON

ON (note: this has no effect when series switch is engaged)

B,M in series + N

B,M in series + N

B,M in series + N

B,M in series + N

B,M in series + N

• STRAT WITH VOLUME, TONE, PASSIVE MIDRANGE and NECK-ON SWITCH 

This one engages the bridge and middle pickups for the series link. The benefit here is that if the middle pickup is RWRP (reverse wound reverse polarity) this position will then be hum-cancelling.

Here is the control function (B = bridge pup, M =middle pup, N = neck pup)

Series Switch Neck-on Switch Pos 1 Pos 2 Pos 3 Pos 4 Pos 5

OFF OFF B B,M M M,N N

OFF ON B,N B,N,M M,N M,N N

ON OFFB,M in series

B,M in series

B,M in series

B,M in series + N

B,M in series + N

ON

ON (note: this has no effect when series switch is engaged)

B,M in series + N

B,M in series + N

B,M in series + N

B,M in series + N

B,M in series + N

Se me pudesse esclarecer as seguintes questões seria muito bom:

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1)Midrange sharper 500K - é um pot normal de 500K certo?

2)O Autor deste circuito não tira o botão tone do meio para dar lugar à chave 3PDT – poderia ter colocado um Vol e tone de 500K, antes coloca um Vol e Tone de 250K – e tendo a opção de som BXM – Humbucker - Será assim melhor do que a opção de 2 pot de 500K?

3)Para ser o meu circuito ideal falta um phase reversal em B. Isto é muito fácil de fazer certo?

Information about the 4 Way Tele Mod

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Adding a 4-way switch to a Tele is one of my absolute favorite mods. Without any visual differences to the instrument you get a totally different and really really useful 4th sound, namely bridge and neck pickups in series. Normally, when 2 pickup are combined in position 2 of a Telecaster, they are wired in parallel. This is a fine and very classic Fender sound. The nice thing about the 4-way mod is that you don't lose this sound, as the classic parallel sound still remains in position 2. However, you gain this really beefy tone with the added series connection in position 4. It provides a noticeably thicker and louder sound that is a bit darker as well. In esssence, you've taken the 2 single coil pickups and combined them to become a humbucker in this position. I like to kick this position in for solos.

The only drawback of this mod (which in my opinion is pretty minor) is the potential for a bit more added noise, but only when in position 1 (note: I refer to the "bridge pickup only" position as position 1). I will explain the reason for this noise. as well as a solution.

WHAT CAUSES THIS?

The reason for the added noise in 1 position is due to the fact that the ground wire on the neck pickup must be "lifted" away from ground and soldered to one of the lugs on the 4 way switch (henceforth I will refer to this as a "ground lift"). In a nutshell, when the bridge pickup is engaged alone (in position1) your neck pickup isn't grounded because of the ground lift, so you may experience some extra noise.

WHAT IS THE SOLUTION?

Use the metal cover of the neck pickup as a shield. To do this, you will need to make a minor modification to your neck pickup. You will need to do three simple things (please refer to figure 1 below):

1. Break the existing connection between the metal cover and the pickups ground wire. To do this, simply break the connection between point "C" and point "A" as depicted in figure 1 below.

2. Solder an additional wire to the metal cover. To do this, you don't actually solder to the cover, but rather to the tab on the bottom of the pickup (this is point "C" in figure 1 below).

3. Connect this new wire to ground (usually this will be the casing of your volume pot).

figure 1

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back to wiring diagrams page

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Here's a hint: if the neck pup always plays, the neck pup's negative lead has a path to ground, and is NOT going through the switch exclusively.

You seem to be confused about how the switch works. There's only ONE throw where the left and right sides are connected - throw #4, the series combo. Here's a quick drawing that I did, perhaps this will help:

The lugs with the "C" next to them (at the opposite ends of the poles (rows of lugs)) are the COMMON lugs for this switch - they are the constant against which the other lugs are switched. You can readily see how this scheme switches the bridge's HOT lead and the neck's NEGATIVE lead, with the neck's HOT lead always connected to the volume pot.

If you look at the two lugs with the "1" near them,

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you will be able to trace the signal path like this:The bridge pup hot (and neck pup hot) connect to the volume pot. But, only the bridge pup plays, because the neck pup's negative lead is NOT grounded.

For "2", the bridge pup plays AND the neck pup plays, because the neck pup's negative lead now has a path to ground.

For "3", the neck pup only plays - the bridge pup's hot is NOT connected, and the neck pup's negative still has a path to ground.

For "4", you get series - the neck pup's negative lead is now connected to the bridge pup's HOT lead, so they play in series.

Not shown in this drawing is the neck pup's ground/shield lead - it has NOTHING to do with the switching, and just gets soldered to ground.

As you look at the drawing, notice that the two poles (rows of lugs down the side) are reverse-symmetrical - in other words, turning the switch 180 degrees and rewiring (as Drak tried) has no effect on the function of the switch!

One other thing that COULD be an issue here - I've seen this on Strat 5-ways - is that you may have a non-Fender switch with a different lug layout. I haven't seen a 4-way like this, but there's always a first time - so it would be odd, but possible...

In other words, the common lugs may be at the other end of the poles - instead of bottom-left and top-right, as shown in the drawing, the switch may have been manufactured with top-left and bottom-right as commons.

This is a common issue when people use the replacement 5-ways from Stewmac.com and a few others in a Fender axe - the commons are at the "wrong end" of the row of lugs (poles). And I don't EVEN want to get into the Mega-S switches!

If this were the case, then all you need to do is "mirror-image" the drawing - reverse it left for right - so that the commons in the drawing match your switch. You should be able to meter-check this, or heck, even just eyeball it by looking at the wiper.

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http://www.strat-talk.com/forum/tech-talk/109785-5-way-tele-wiring.html

This is what I've come up with. It is untested.

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3. Tele with 4-Way Switch

This is another cool wiring scheme that gives you all the traditional sounds plus something extra. The only special part

you need is a 4-way switch.

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This gives you the usual Tele sounds in the first three positions. But in position 4, you get both pickups in series like a

humbucker. It’s a big boost in output and a big, fat tone.

But you need to make one important adjustment: The neck pickup’s cover has to be grounded with a separate wire.

That means you have to flip the pickup over and cut the little un-insulated jumper wire that connects to the cover. That

leaves a 1/4-inch nub of wire connected to the cover. Attach a new wire to that, and connect it to ground.

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This wiring works great with any vintage-output Tele pickups. It’s also great with our Five-Two® for Tele pickups,

which session players like Brent Mason and Dean Parks like because they provide great Tele twang, but with a

slightly tighter, more focused low end.

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http://www.geocities.jp/dgb_studio/2svari_e.htm#51

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SW1

SW2 PU Remark

1 -1 PU1

-1 1 PU2

1 1 PU1+PU2 Parallel

-1 -1 PU1xPU2 Series

1:UP, -1:DOWN

+:Parallel x:Series SW1,SW2:6P ON-ON Mini Toggle Switch

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POS PU

1 Front Neck

2 Front + Rear Parallel

3 Rear Bridge

4 Rear Bridge

5 Front x Rear Series

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+:Parallel x:Series -:Out of PhaseSee 3Way5PositionSW

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POS PU Remarks

1 Front Neck

2 Front + Rear Parallel

3 Rear Bridge without Tone

4 Rear Bridge with Tone

5 Front x Rear Series

+:Parallel x:Series -:Out of PhaseSee 5waySW

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http://www.geocities.jp/dgb_studio/index_e.htm

2S26 POS PU Remark

1 (PU1+C1)xPU2 Series with C1

2 PU1+C1 with Capacitance

3 PU1 Neck

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4 PU1+PU2 Parallel

5 PU2 Bridge

+:Parallel x:Series -:Out of PhaseC1:100PF-0.1uF C2:.047uF C3:0.001uFSee 3Way5PositionSWRev2 01/101/10 See 3Way5PositionSW

C1:.047uF C3:0.001uFUSAGE

Position 2 : You turn VR2 c.c.w. a bit, You choice sweet tone. 

2S26JH 

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2S23 POS PU Remark1 PU1 Neck2 PU1-(PU2xC2) Out of Phase(Parallel) with C23 PU1+PU2 Parallel4 (PU1+C3)xPU2 Series with capacitance5 PU2 Bridge+:Parallel x:Series -:Out of PhaseC1:.047uF C2:.01uF C3:.1uF

2S21 POS

PU Remark

1 PU1 Neck

2PU1-(PU2xC2)

Out of Phase(Parallel) with C2 (fatter than out of phase)

3 PU1+PU2 Parallel

4(PU1+C3)xPU2

Series with capacitance(fatter than Tap)

5 PU2 Bridge

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+:Parallel x:Series -:Out of PhaseC1:.047uF C2:.01uF C3:.1uF

Actual WiringSW is YAMAHA 4Pole5Position SW. 

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2S09 POS PU Remarks1 PU1 Neck

2 PU2-PU1Out of Phase (Parallel)

3 PU1+PU2 Parallel4 PU1xPU2 Series5 PU2 Bridge+:Parallel -:PhaseOut x:Series4-pole 5-way switchMod for Fender Telecaster

Note 

Note It is necessary to separate pickupcover's ground and pickup's ground. You can get 4-pole 5-way switch on Guitar Shop Supply.

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POS PU Remark

1 (PU1+C1)xPU2 Series with C1

2 PU1+C1 with capacitance

3 PU1 Neck

4 PU1+PU2 Parallel

5 PU2 Bridge

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Re: Ibanez VLX91 5 way switch wiring issue...

just transpose the Wire colors from Dimarzio to Duncan

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http://www.shredguitars.com/showthread.php?t=31910

Talvez aqui façam isso do desenho:

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http://www.guitarnuts.com/wiring/menu.php

1. Here's all three pups in series on ONE p/p:

WCR04-28-2005, 12:40 PM

Originally posted by A440 just a note that WCR recommends using higher value pots than the std 250K used in most strats. Fralins are designed to be used with 250K.

300's seem to be the favorites. 250's tend to choke them a little. I think Muddy uses 500's, but some find that to be a little much.

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Cybercat04-28-2005, 01:18 PM

I have the 500s with my SRs too, it gives me a little more bite for when I need it, but usually the tone (& vol) controls on the Strat are set for the correct tone for "the devil's music" : - 6, 6, 6... :rolleyes:

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Reviews pickups:

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Please be patient after emailing or calling, the guy is super-busy..

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S-7 tem uma bela bridge

1956 Epic Series Stratocaster - bela neck

Pickups S-5 – belo middle – talvez tudo s5

add pin-and-socket connectors:

http://www.diyguitarmods.com/rewire-humbucker-instructions.php

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