SabrePanzer
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...Okay, so I wired up my "Sledgehammer" project, which is a Warmoth Birdseye Maple/Rosewood neck and Warmoth Alder Strat body, with two CTS 500k pots and one DiMarzio 250k pot stuffed in it. CTS 500k volume for the Bill Lawrence L500XL in the bridge, and the DiMarzio 250k as a volume for the SD Hot Rails neck single, with the remaining CTS 500k as the master tone.
First of all, I already know that I need to pull ol' Sledge back apart because the DiMarzio pot's been junk ever since I first wired it in Sledge's predecessor (it doesn't roll off all the way). However, I've found out that things are REALLY not what they seem beyond the volume controls.
The wiring setup goes neck and bridge pickup -> independent neck and bridge volume -> three way switch -> master tone -> output jack. I used a SD wiring diagram to wire up everything past the switch, with some derping about to wire up everything else in the line before the switch due to the oddball switch that I got being confusing as hell.
Needless to say, I was pretty surprised when I rolled the volume down to about halfway on the Bill Lawrence (selected bridge only because middle position only gives you the neck position because junk constantly-on pot), then rolled the tone down and the volume cut with the tone, almost all the way off! After some dabbling around with it (finding some interesting uses for it as well such as using the tone as a "choke" for the Hot Rails to get a cleaner sound out of it, albeit muffled due to the fact that the tone still functions as a tone control too.
Just wondering if somebody (anybody!) could help me out with this issue, I would GLADLY appreciate it. I'd prefer to use as little rewiring as possible because of the fact that it's a pretty damn tight squeeze with all of the wire bridges that I needed to make... :-\
Though I kinda plan on pulling the Bill Lawrence out, too, considering the fact that it's too goddamn bright for me. With the tone all the way up, hitting the strings hard with sorta-low gain feels like someone's driving an icepick into my skull... I'm half-tempted to make another loaded pickguard using a rotary switch and concentric combo vol/tone pots. Or maybe even just use a mini-toggle killswitch and just use those concentric pots to just blend the pickups together... I wanna try and get this fixed first, though, because I don't have the money to do such a thing. :I
TL;DR: Tone control is also volume control when actual volume is turned down slightly. Went off of SD diagram above to wire up the tone control, unsure whether or not cap is wired in wrong place or something. Please help.
First of all, I already know that I need to pull ol' Sledge back apart because the DiMarzio pot's been junk ever since I first wired it in Sledge's predecessor (it doesn't roll off all the way). However, I've found out that things are REALLY not what they seem beyond the volume controls.
The wiring setup goes neck and bridge pickup -> independent neck and bridge volume -> three way switch -> master tone -> output jack. I used a SD wiring diagram to wire up everything past the switch, with some derping about to wire up everything else in the line before the switch due to the oddball switch that I got being confusing as hell.
Needless to say, I was pretty surprised when I rolled the volume down to about halfway on the Bill Lawrence (selected bridge only because middle position only gives you the neck position because junk constantly-on pot), then rolled the tone down and the volume cut with the tone, almost all the way off! After some dabbling around with it (finding some interesting uses for it as well such as using the tone as a "choke" for the Hot Rails to get a cleaner sound out of it, albeit muffled due to the fact that the tone still functions as a tone control too.
Just wondering if somebody (anybody!) could help me out with this issue, I would GLADLY appreciate it. I'd prefer to use as little rewiring as possible because of the fact that it's a pretty damn tight squeeze with all of the wire bridges that I needed to make... :-\
Though I kinda plan on pulling the Bill Lawrence out, too, considering the fact that it's too goddamn bright for me. With the tone all the way up, hitting the strings hard with sorta-low gain feels like someone's driving an icepick into my skull... I'm half-tempted to make another loaded pickguard using a rotary switch and concentric combo vol/tone pots. Or maybe even just use a mini-toggle killswitch and just use those concentric pots to just blend the pickups together... I wanna try and get this fixed first, though, because I don't have the money to do such a thing. :I
TL;DR: Tone control is also volume control when actual volume is turned down slightly. Went off of SD diagram above to wire up the tone control, unsure whether or not cap is wired in wrong place or something. Please help.