This is awesome. I totally agree with your assessment--it sounds sort of like an acoustic guitar with all three pickups engaged. Thanks for making this! I'm definitely going to subscribe because this is the second video I've seen from your channel in my feed and they were both excellent. The other was the push/pull pot wiring video! That helped me tremendously with a project I was working on.
Fender never has made a tone control for the bridge pickup... so I use a tiny jumper between the neck tone tab and the unused bridge tone tab. Those 2 pickups are never on at the same time...
Do you have a diagram up anywhere for this? I'd love to do this with a push/push tone knob on a strat that already has the humbucker splitter on the volume knob.
you can search mini toggle "Add neck" and replicate the diagram onto the lugs of the push/push. just copy it over where the wire goes, match up the wires and you should be set
I've done this mod since the late 70's but I wired the switch for the bridge pickup. I had realized that the bridge pickup was absent from positions 3,4 and 5 so I added the switch. I wonder, does it make a difference in sound from your mod? I would think the result is the same but subtle differences can sometimes be huge Any thoughts? I have 4 Strats and I've done this to all of them.
It works well to give more variety especially since we usually combine it with the splittable bridge option. All three pickups on has an airy almost acoustic feel when the bridge is spit on a hss, and neck bridge is nice to bring some low end back into the tone. Not overly drastic changes but enough to get a couple new useable sounds to explore
This is awesome. I totally agree with your assessment--it sounds sort of like an acoustic guitar with all three pickups engaged. Thanks for making this! I'm definitely going to subscribe because this is the second video I've seen from your channel in my feed and they were both excellent. The other was the push/pull pot wiring video! That helped me tremendously with a project I was working on.
appreciate the kind words! thanks for subscribing!
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Fender never has made a tone control for the bridge pickup... so I use a tiny jumper between the neck tone tab and the unused bridge tone tab. Those 2 pickups are never on at the same time...
Do you have a diagram up anywhere for this? I'd love to do this with a push/push tone knob on a strat that already has the humbucker splitter on the volume knob.
you can search mini toggle "Add neck" and replicate the diagram onto the lugs of the push/push. just copy it over where the wire goes, match up the wires and you should be set
Thank you for the video
I've done this mod since the late 70's but I wired the switch for the bridge pickup. I had realized that the bridge pickup was absent from positions 3,4 and 5 so I added the switch. I wonder, does it make a difference in sound from your mod? I would think the result is the same but subtle differences can sometimes be huge
Any thoughts? I have 4 Strats and I've done this to all of them.
It works well to give more variety especially since we usually combine it with the splittable bridge option. All three pickups on has an airy almost acoustic feel when the bridge is spit on a hss, and neck bridge is nice to bring some low end back into the tone. Not overly drastic changes but enough to get a couple new useable sounds to explore
In the third position with the Switch on I hear a difference in the sound as if they were the pickups in push-pull is this normal?
It depends on how it’s set, if the switch is on, the neck is still engaged and you get the reversed wound reverse polarity sound