Bill lawrence wiring for tele with stereo.

[Heft]

Hi
I'd like to add a ric-o sound type stereo effect to a bill lawrence 5-way setup. If I have this right I would need to move one yellow wire from a pickup to the middle of a push pull, the put the botom (or top) of the push pull to where the yellow wire would have gone on the diagram below. Then put the remaining contact to my output jack.
Heads up the picture below is just a stock bill lawrence 5-way. I don't have one with my changes ATM.
If this is right wrong or impossible let me know!
Thanks

https://imgur.com/s2BCn1E

 

[stratamania]

What you describe does not sound or look so far anything like a Ric-O-Sound type circuit which has 2 output jacks, 1 TRS and 1 mono.

 

[Heft]

What I want is a push pull for stereo and mono. With stereo sending each pickup to separate amps. The jack does need to be stereo with the push pull going to the tip of the stereo jack.

 

[Heft]

It should look like this I think.

 

[stratamania]

Now I see what you are trying to do.

Personally, if I wanted a stereo rig, I would just run mono from a Tele and then use outboard gear to go stereo.

That said, I assume you would have some sort of external splitter or Y cable to also get to the separate amps. (see also below for another idea to do this)

What certainly would be different to actual Ric-O-Sound is that you do not have independent volume and tone for each pickup. Also, when separating the signal to “stereo” your bridge pickup tone may become more strident and the volume and tone + selector switch will have no effect on it.

If you ran both pickups via a DPDT switch, one to tip and the other to sleeve when engaged, you would have to rely totally on outboard gear to control the signal. At that point you could go TRS to an effect type box that you could easily make, and inside take each separate hot signal to a volume and tone for each pickup. Then output each signal via 2 mono jacks to an individual amp.

 

[Heft]

Now I see what you are trying to do.

Personally, if I wanted a stereo rig, I would just run mono from a Tele and then use outboard gear to go stereo.

That said, I assume you would have some sort of external splitter or Y cable to also get to the separate amps. (see also below for another idea to do this)

What certainly would be different to actual Ric-O-Sound is that you do not have independent volume and tone for each pickup. Also, when separating the signal to “stereo” your bridge pickup tone may become more strident and the volume and tone + selector switch will have no effect on it.

If you ran both pickups via a DPDT switch, one to tip and the other to sleeve when engaged, you would have to rely totally on outboard gear to control the signal. At that point you could go TRS to an effect type box that you could easily make, and inside take each separate hot signal to a volume and tone for each pickup. Then output each signal via 2 mono jacks to an individual amp.

Yeah,
The idea is that my neck is a single coil so a bassman or deluxe reverb would sound better and the bridge is a humbucker and I want a marshall. I'm not worried about separate volume/tone because I'll eq the amps.