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Permalink Reply by Fomhorach on June 20, 2016 at 5:53pm

Recently I used a two pot set up on a piezo & pup. I created a mixer set up with them that blends the two together (at any volume for either) or just one or the other.. I would be curious to see how that's done with more than 2 pick ups without the use of switches.

Wouldn't you get a lot of resistance bleed through each pot?

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Permalink Reply by darryl kernaghan on June 20, 2016 at 7:47pm

1 way around that Fomhar,is a diode on the output of each pot

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Permalink Reply by Jon Leslie/Runaway Veal Music on June 20, 2016 at 8:14pm

What diode is that? Thank you.

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Permalink Reply by darryl kernaghan on June 20, 2016 at 8:42pm

The 1 i use Jon is a schottky,1a/40v diode, but it's only relevant if using multiple volume  vol pots

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Permalink Reply by Fomhorach on June 20, 2016 at 11:30pm

Ooooh.. Diodes are one way. Is this correct?
I kinda remember this from way back in the days.

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Permalink Reply by darryl kernaghan on June 21, 2016 at 2:23am

Some others,don't agree,but i swear by them for separation,it stops the signal returning,and coming back via the other pick up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWJeR_O5p44

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on June 21, 2016 at 5:53am

There are different type of diodes that will do different things. Isolation diodes are the one you speaking of that allow current to flow in one direction only. There's no need of them if your using switches. You can use them instead of switches, but using 2 pickups at a time will not have the same effect because the diodes isolate each circuit from one another. That doesn't make a lot of difference with HB's, but makes a lot of difference with single coils. So it depends on what you want out of you guitars wiring as to what's best.

Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on June 17, 2016 at 8:07pm

What I would do is wire each pickup(4 pickups) to a DPST on/off/on switch(4 switches). Center turns pickup off, one side would be parallel and the other side would be series. Then straight to a master volume.

It would be a fun task to wire up with 4 - 4 wire humbuckers, but would be a lot of tone options.

But after you do it all, you'll most likely only use half of what's available. I have 4 guitars with 2 humbuckers only that do just fine and I couldn't see why I would need 2 more on my guitar. But to each his own.

Seymour Duncan's website would probably have a wiring layout of what your looking for to make things easier. Seymour Duncan also has Triple Shot rings that enable each coil to be used together in parallel, series or each coil separately. But they have to be wired to a selector switch for choice of pickups.

So figure out exactly what you want/need or will use first.

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on June 17, 2016 at 8:31pm

Use one of these for each HB. Wire all North-Start wires from the switch to the volume pot leg and all grounds to the back or side of volume pot. Then the + and - wire from volume to jack and a ground to the bridge/tail piece and your done.

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Permalink Reply by Jon Leslie/Runaway Veal Music on June 17, 2016 at 10:32pm

Paul can we simplify. I have hot and ground wires only from Humbuckers. No other wires. I don't know about north south unless that means just reversing the poles? Or direction of the way the HB face either the neck or bridge ? Thanks and sorry if you've already explained this here.

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on June 18, 2016 at 7:41am

That was for 4 wire HB's. If you have 2 wire HB's, then you can't do the parallel/series thing because you only have 2 wires(one + and one -), they are in series mode.

All you can do is get 4 SPST switches th

at are ON/OFF.Outside terminal is for hot/+ lead of pickup. Center terminal wire to volume pot. Do the same for all 4 pickup/switch assemblies like this:

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on June 18, 2016 at 7:43am

Don't know what happened to the last photo, but you get it.

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