HSH strat wiring options?

[rorschah]

Favorite wiring options for HSH strat? I'm hoping for for standard 5 way switching with the ability to combine top and bottom, and least.

Good wiring charts anywhere?

Danke danke. I'm building my first partscaster.

-thi

[Clorenzo]

Lots of possibilities, depending on which pickup combinations you prefer. With a Superswitch you can have almost any 5 you want, or many more if you add some toggle or push/pull switches. You may like this one, for example:

[VTX-XTC]

My favorite way to wire a HSH configuration, which gives an incredible array of choices, is as follows.....

Install a 5-way switch and configure it as a standard Strat switch which is...

1 - Neck
2 - Neck & Middle
3 - Middle
4 - Middle & Bridge
5 - Bridge

Then, install 2 more switches. These can be toggles or push-pull pots. These 2 switches do the following....

- One switch does a coil-cut function, converting the humbuckers into single-coils.

- The other switch (combine switch) allows you to turn the neck and bridge pickups on simultaneously. This is the "Les-Paul with the switch in the middle position" sound when you're in Humbucker mode.

This setup gives you all the Les Paul type of sounds and all the Strat type of sounds. Also, in single-coil mode, using the combine switch to turn on the neck and bridge single-coils sounds a lot like a Tele in the middle switch position. Additionally, you get some new sounds which are...

All 3 pickups on a the same time, either in the Humbucker mode or Single-Coil mode. This is a really fat sound. This occurs in either mode (single-coil or humbucker) with the second switch in the "combine" mode and the 5-way switch in position 2 or 4.

The only thing you can add that will give more variety of sound is phase-reversing switches or switches to combine pickups in series mode instead of parallel mode.

[Mike9]

Deaf Eddie is a member now - maybe he'll chime in here - he has some pretty whacked out wiring schemes & I've used a couple with great success.

[phy7ajw]

I've wired a slightly simpler scheme (adds one extra switch) on my HSH Godin to switch it between SSS and HH configs, have a look at http://www.allouput.com/Wiring/hsh_wiring.html

[rorschah]

VTX's two toggle switch scheme seems perfect for me - I use all the various versions pretty heavily.

Anybody got a wiring diagram or a link to one for that?

-thi

[VTX-XTC]

Originally Posted by rorschah

VTX's two toggle switch scheme seems perfect for me - I use all the various versions pretty heavily.

Anybody got a wiring diagram or a link to one for that?

-thi

I don't have a schematic for my setup, but if you describe your guitar, I might be able to give you enough information to hook it up.

[rorschah]

I've just got a beat up Warmoth strat body cut for H/S/H and the pickups, loose. I need to get a pickguard and any electronics I need, and wire it up myself.

-thi

[manuelrocks]

Helloo rock bros !
Im going to do a very similar thing in my Squier Strat, i and i real hope you guys can help me, the same you helped him !
I have some Not new :b Dimarzio/Ibanez Pickups, from my Ibanez Rg2550 Prestige, so i want to transform my squier into a H-S-H, with 1 push pull (regular push pull configurations, but thats not the hard part :b), but i want to maintain the 3 controls from the strat, but instead 1 volume and 2 tones, i want 2 Volumes( 1 for the bridge, and 1 for the neck and middle ) and 1 tone, that will be my push pull pot.
I've been looking like crazy in these blogs and websites, and i found some similar stuff, but none exactly like i want it! So i decided to try this blog! Hope you Guys can help me Fast!!
Cheers !
Keep Rocking !

[Clorenzo]

If would really help us help you if you could be more specific about what you want. Understood about 1 vol. for the neck and middle, 1 vol. for the bridge and 1 master tone. For the rest, I don't know what you mean by "regular push-pull configurations", there are dozens of different things you can do with a push-pull, so please fill in the blanks with exactly which pickups / coils you want active in each position (if some involve split humbuckers, please specify which coil, inner or outer, you want active):

Push-pull up:

Position 1 -
Position 2 -
Position 3 -
Position 4 -
Position 5 -

Push-pull down:

Position 1 -
Position 2 -
Position 3 -
Position 4 -
Position 5 -

Also, you say "Dimarzio/Ibanez pickups". Please specify which is each of them (neck, middle and bridge). I'm familiar with the DiMarzio colour codes, but not the Ibanez, so if you have that info, it would also help.

[manuelrocks]

ok, sorry about that :b
The pickups i was talking about are these ones:
( i went to ibanez.com to see them, because dimarzio doesnt sell it, its a production pickup for ibanez )
-neck pickup DiMarzio® IBZ-N (H) neck pu
-middle pickup DiMarzio® IBZ-S (S) mid pu
-bridge pickup DiMarzio® IBZ-B (H) bridge pu

And this is what i meant with regular configurations( regular because, almost all ibanez and others guitars that come with a push pull have this setting )

Push-pull up:

Position 1 - Splitted Bridge
Position 2 - Splitted Bridge ( inner Bridge )with Middle
Position 3 - Middle
Position 4 - Splitted Neck ( Inner Neck ) with Middle
Position 5 - Splitted Neck

Push-pull down:

Position 1 - Bridge
Position 2 - Splitted Bridge ( inner Bridge )with Middle
Position 3 - Middle
Position 4 - Splitted Neck ( Inner Neck ) with Middle
Position 5 - Neck

Hope This Helps more!
Thank You for your Fast reply !!

[Clorenzo]

This should do it:



I've drawn the push-pull switch separate from the tone pot for convenience but you get the idea. The orientation is as you would see it with the pot shaft pointing down. The top vol pot would be for the neck and middle and the bottom one for the bridge. And, I guess you already know that, but you need a Superswitch (which some Ibanez guitars don't have).

For the colour codes I've assumed the ones in this generic Ibanez RG diagram from DiMarzio (they don't have a specific one for the RG2550):

http://www.dimarzio.com/sites/defaul...RG_PPTmod2.pdf

Note that with this arrangement if any of the vol pots is turned all the way down, the output is muted regardless of the position of the other pot and the switch. To avoid this you can reverse the vol pots, i.e. swap the wires going to the leftmost and middle lugs on each pot. The drawback with this is that there will be a very noticeable treble loss as you turn the volume down and it can't be compensated even with a bleed circuit. Your choice!

Edit: on this diagram though:

http://www.dimarzio.com/sites/defaul...ppsplitn&b.pdf

The middle pu has the red wire to ground and the black one to the switch. Try it either way and if you find positions 2 and 4 too thin and weak, it means it's out of phase, so simply swap the middle pickup wires. Or look at the way it was wired in the Ibanez and see which of the two diagrams it matches.

[Clorenzo]

A small improvement:



This way the bridge vol pot is decoupled from the circuit except in positions 1 and 2, so its setting doesn't affect the sound in 3, 4 and 5.

[atquinn]

I'm getting ready to convert an HH guitar to an HSH guitar. I'm going to get a Megaswitch E+ which will give me the following combinations:
Neck hum
Neck split + middle
Neck hum + Bridge hum
Brige split + middle
Bridge hum

I'm going to run the splits from the humbucker through push-pull before I send them to the megaswitch, so when I pull it up, I'll get
Neck split
Neck split + middle
Neck hum + Bridge hum
Brige split + middle
Bridge split

I might put the 2 humbuckers on separate push-pull splits if I get ambitious. I'll lose the middle-only position, but I prefer the ability to easily get the 2 neck pickup combinations.

-Austin

[manuelrocks]

Thank Youu Very Much for your help Clorenzo!!! Your AWESOME !
But just one more question, ive seen, and people have speaked with me about the super switch, but is it exactly ? Because I was going to use the switch that came with my ibanez..
I dont know how to thank you, you gave me just what i needed for free, i was about to commit a 20$ mistake just for a diagram :b
Seriously Thank YOU!