Hello.
I am building a guitar and I decided to use two humbuckers with coil split. I have two potentiometers each for one of the pickups. I already quite understand how to wire the coil split, no big deal, but I'm quite scared of connecting those two potentiometers together, because if I turn some of them down, the output will short to the ground, which will obviously cause the other humbucker to mute aswell.
Is there any possibility to connect those two humbuckers at the same time with every one of those humbuckers would have a separate potentiometer with coilsplit, or do I have to replace one of those potentiometers with pickup selector switch?
Thanks for your replies 😀
I am building a guitar and I decided to use two humbuckers with coil split. I have two potentiometers each for one of the pickups. I already quite understand how to wire the coil split, no big deal, but I'm quite scared of connecting those two potentiometers together, because if I turn some of them down, the output will short to the ground, which will obviously cause the other humbucker to mute aswell.
Is there any possibility to connect those two humbuckers at the same time with every one of those humbuckers would have a separate potentiometer with coilsplit, or do I have to replace one of those potentiometers with pickup selector switch?
Thanks for your replies 😀
Not sure why you posted this, as I think you can literally Google a schematic of every possible combination of pickup wiring. Also having trouble understanding you. Is this what you mean? 2 HBs/3-Way Toggle/2 Vol/2 Tones/Individual Coil Taps
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Most of those schematics have either volume potentiometer as the second one, or they are using selector switch. I want two potentiometers each one with separate switch to split the individual humbucker and both of them going straight to the output jack without cross muting the pickups by connecting the output lead of the potentiometer to the ground, causing the other one mute aswell, because the signal will go straight to the ground. And also I don't wanna any tone potentiometers, just the volume ones.
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A possibility is to wire the PickUps as you like (Split coil, parallel, series, singel coil, etc).
Then connect the signal carrying wire to pin two, the wiper of the volume pot.
Next, connect pin one to ground and pin tree, from both pots to the output jack.
When you lower the volume of one pu, the other wil not be muted.
Have fun.
Then connect the signal carrying wire to pin two, the wiper of the volume pot.
Next, connect pin one to ground and pin tree, from both pots to the output jack.
When you lower the volume of one pu, the other wil not be muted.
Have fun.
Yes, I already found this circuit there: "two volumes, no tone pot, no switch" wiring needed | Telecaster Guitar Forum
It's basically a Jazz Bass schematics for those two pickups. Exactly, what I needed, thank you
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