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I bought my Peavey Wolfgang a decade ago when I really didn't know tonally what I was getting into. I've come to realize that the pickups, while they are impressively hot, are not congruent with what I view as a desirable tone. I have decided (long story short) to keep the guitar. I have sold the stock pickups and what I have in mind is rather unorthodox at best. My ambition, however, far exceeds my knowledge in electronics, as I am just beginning to delve into all this. It only made sense to present my project to people who are knowledgeable.
So, here we go: The stock pickups are gone. I intend to route the guitar as necessary to put four (yes, four) pickups in this thing. In the neck, I'm putting a Lollar blackface single coil (very slightly hotter than a texas special). Directly behind this will be a Lollar p-90. In the bridge, I'm putting a Fralin pure PAF, and behind that, another Lollar blackface.
In order to access all of the (as I count them) fifteen pickup combinations, I'd like to use this: Humbucker Control Pot w/ Coil Filters For Guitar & Bass
It's a HCP, a Humbucker Control Pot, designed to allow splitting one or both humbuckers as well as fading signal from another coil to the one being split. I would like to employ this to instead access all four of my pickups. I understand that in conjuction with the 3-way pickup switch, this will actually theoretically only allow nine of the fifteen possible pickup selections. So, I'd like to install two mini toggles to allow the addition of either neck pickup to whatever setting I"ve chosen with the HCP.
The HCP will take one of the two pot positions on my guitar (assuming I don't want to add any more) and so I'd like to replace the other with dual concentric volume and tone pots, with 250K on the volume and 500K on the tone. I'm also receptive to any way to employ 500K pots and make the single coils "see" 250K if this can be done in a way that is electrically identical to a 250K pot.
I'm sure that most of you will be able to glance at the wiring diagram for the HCP and know whether or not this will work for me. Thanks in advance for your help.
-Aaron
I bought my Peavey Wolfgang a decade ago when I really didn't know tonally what I was getting into. I've come to realize that the pickups, while they are impressively hot, are not congruent with what I view as a desirable tone. I have decided (long story short) to keep the guitar. I have sold the stock pickups and what I have in mind is rather unorthodox at best. My ambition, however, far exceeds my knowledge in electronics, as I am just beginning to delve into all this. It only made sense to present my project to people who are knowledgeable.
So, here we go: The stock pickups are gone. I intend to route the guitar as necessary to put four (yes, four) pickups in this thing. In the neck, I'm putting a Lollar blackface single coil (very slightly hotter than a texas special). Directly behind this will be a Lollar p-90. In the bridge, I'm putting a Fralin pure PAF, and behind that, another Lollar blackface.
In order to access all of the (as I count them) fifteen pickup combinations, I'd like to use this: Humbucker Control Pot w/ Coil Filters For Guitar & Bass
It's a HCP, a Humbucker Control Pot, designed to allow splitting one or both humbuckers as well as fading signal from another coil to the one being split. I would like to employ this to instead access all four of my pickups. I understand that in conjuction with the 3-way pickup switch, this will actually theoretically only allow nine of the fifteen possible pickup selections. So, I'd like to install two mini toggles to allow the addition of either neck pickup to whatever setting I"ve chosen with the HCP.
The HCP will take one of the two pot positions on my guitar (assuming I don't want to add any more) and so I'd like to replace the other with dual concentric volume and tone pots, with 250K on the volume and 500K on the tone. I'm also receptive to any way to employ 500K pots and make the single coils "see" 250K if this can be done in a way that is electrically identical to a 250K pot.
I'm sure that most of you will be able to glance at the wiring diagram for the HCP and know whether or not this will work for me. Thanks in advance for your help.
-Aaron
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