Volume pot as a blend

Wanna know if anyone has used a volume pot (NOT tone pot) as a blend between two pickups. (+) from one pup to Lug 1, (+) from another pup to lug 3, Lug 2 is (+) out and casing is ground for the wiring.

Would it work to modulate between the two pups? Piezo or mag.

Any idea what the combination would to do output. at 50%, would the output be 2x or still 1x or somewhere in between?

thx

-WY

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Permalink Reply by Ted Crocker on May 22, 2013 at 7:16am

A little late to this discussion. Maybe I'm just old school, but I prefer independent controls of both pickups - on/off and vol/tone of each. That gives you the ability to control the output and tone of each one - and blend each as you desire. Here's how I do it with 2 mag pups:

And here's how I do it with a mag and a piezo (note: no tone control on the piezo)

Find more of my wiring diagrams HERE or just ask if you don't see what you need!

Ted Crocker

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Permalink Reply by Cigar Box Nation on May 22, 2013 at 7:59am

As a professional performer, I'm starting to favor a bare minimum design: one pickup, one volume knob. If you want to get fancy, maybe ad a tone...but it's not necessary. The reason is that my hands start flying around and tend to hit random knobs and switches. I'd rather just keep things simple.

I know this doesn't address your question... maybe I'll shut up now.

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Permalink Reply by The Phrygian Kid on May 22, 2013 at 8:14am

IMHO is a supporting argument for blend pots. If you NEED two pickups... Well a blend pot can do the job of two volume pots. And a switch. Too many controls on a guitar is ugly in my opinion, although once it approaches the absurd it can become kinda cool again it's hardly in a practical way

Ill take a blend pot and a master volume over individual pickup volume controls every time thanks.