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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?
1 way around that Fomhar,is a diode on the output of each pot
The 1 i use Jon is a schottky,1a/40v diode, but it's only relevant if using multiple volume vol pots
Ooooh.. Diodes are one way. Is this correct?
I kinda remember this from way back in the days.
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
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.
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.
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:
Don't know what happened to the last photo, but you get it.
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