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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
An alternative approach, although possibly not one you'd choose for the Coodercaster, is to use dual concentric pots and knobs. It then gives the option of one volume / two tones or two volumes / two tones whilst still occupying the space of single volume and tone controls. Handy for a Tele.
Control knobs might look like this
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Dual-Concentric-Control-Knob-For-Electric-and-Bass-Guitars-/142133374536
In this sort of setup I like neck vol/tone in place of the standard volume control and bridge vol/tone in place of the standard tone control. Circuit diagrams can be found on the Phostenix web site.
This is should work ok.
I think my main issue is that the neck P90 is significantly more powerful than the low output Lap pickup.
A couple of potential solutions are the resistor/cap mod suggested above
Replace the P90 and scratchlate the use a Stamdard Tele neck pockup which is mich lower output
Sack the expensive MOJO loom and start again....
I can follow a diagram and wire it up, but have no idea what is happening!
If I could wire it through a three way switch with the bridge selecting the bridge with the tone and the neck position selecting the neck without the tone and nothing in the middle switch position that would probably do me......
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Response was
that the P90 is too powerful for the low output Lap pickup
Try lowering the P90 - done
I cant rewire to have tone only on the bridge with the current harness....
I guess you had a good reason to put in a P90 but if it is too powerful and causing such problems of imbalance have you considered changing it to a Mojo Teisco-style gold foil that others have used successfully with the Mojo lap steel pup?
If you really prefer to keep the P90, turning down the tone of the bridge pickup just accentuates the imbalance problem. The concentric controls I mentioned would enable you to control volume and tone of each pickup to restore balance.
If it won't reach because it's the cap which connects the two controls together, reverse it so the cap is between the tone control and ground, and connect the tone to the switch with a wire.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
"This pickup has two coils – one under the bottom three strings and one under the top three. The coils are wound so they dramatically reduce 60 cycle hum (humbucking) however the pickup still sounds like a single coil. In order for the pickup to work correctly and get good volume balance between the strings the coils are out of phase with each other- if we arranged the magnets so the coils were in phase with each other the pickup would give you bad string volume balance- some strings would be much louder than others so it’s the nature of the design that it works best with the coils out of phase with each other but because each coil senses different strings their phase doesn’t matter. HOWEVER this DOES present a problem if you install this pickup into a guitar with more than one pickup. If you combine this pickup (typically installed in the bridge position) with a neck pickup or any other pickup in any position and you use both at once in combination half of the strings will be in phase and half will be out of phase. This is only a problem if you run two pickups at once."