Re: Alternative grounding solutions.
- From: Squier <squier@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 04:01:00 -0400
Monster Zero <nopeyouwontgetit@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I just picked up a cheapie SX strat clone guitar set up with H/S/S from some
kid for cheap cheap money but apparently he tried doing his own work and the
humbucker doesn't work right on it. You can tell it's not wired right or
something from the sound and lack of any sustain at all.
Anyways I was messin around with it a little and damned if I can't get all
the shit grounded to the volume pot that needs to be. Anyone here have any
ideas on an alternate good source of ground? It has a strat type tremolo on
it and I was thinking of running a couple wires from that. Any ideas?
TIA
besides any ground wire issues, if it is a 4 conductor lead (or 5 including
any bare wires for ground) he may have wired it up as parallel rather
than series (in series usually there are 2 wires soldered together and
taped off and then one of the 2 wires that are left is hot and the other
ground - and any bare wire will also go to ground). It might also be
out of phase with the middle pickup (you would hear a sort of nasaly sound
and low output when both pups are selected)
Or if it is 2 lead
then it might be out of phase with the middle pickup - in this case
just switch the hot wire (on the 5 way) with the ground wire to put it
in phase with the middle pickup.
Most Strats have 3 main ground wires and 1 main hot.
1 hot from the jack (which usually gets wired into the middle volume pot tab)
and 1 ground from the jack (back of volume pot) and 2 internal ground wires.
1 coming from the trem claw - routed through up to the back of volume pot
and 1 ground usually coming from a grounding lug or screw somewhere in
the pickup cavity (and going to the back of the volume pot).
Ok - so just take an internal ground wire such as the one coming
from the trem claw. Follow it through the body where it comes
through to go up and connect to the back of the volume pot.
Then make a splice in that wire. Now connect all the ground to
that splice and solder them there. Put electrical tape over where
the solder junction is. Now they are all connected to a main ground
wire and then run that one wire up to the volume pot and solder it.
Try not to have too much wire all jumbled into the body cavity so you
can close it up and the pickguard will sit nice and flat.
Personally I would just order some new pots and rewire the thing.
You can reuse some of it (just order what you need).
You might also want to order tone cap (.047 or .033) if you
can't reuse the cap(s) there (the leads are too short or whatever).
Probably want to get 250k pots.
But a neat trick is to wire up the single coil neck and middle 250k
tone pot so neck+middle pups use 250k and .047 cap and then wire in the bridge
to the bottom tone pot and use 500k and .033 or .022 cap).
Usually the bridge and middle share the bottom tone pot but it makes
more sense to have both single coils share a same value tone pot
and give the humbucker its own tone pot more suited for humbucker values.
You could also use 250k or 300k or 500k volume pot and you really
don't need a treble bleed cap (or cap/resistor) but that's up to you.
You can't go wrong using a 150pf treble bleed cap (across the volume pot tabs).
I find that many times a .001 or .002 is too high a value and
going with 150 - 300pf is better. But that's all up to you for
any sort of additional volume cap (or cap/resistor hookup).
ok. that's my humble 2 cents.
.
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