Correct wiring for 3 Humbuckers
I have tried to create a guitar wiring diagram for 3 humbuckers that should result in the following posisitons using a 6 way, 4 pole rotary switch:
Neck
Middle/Neck parallel
Middle
Middle/Bridge parallel
Bridge
Bridge/Neck parallel
Each pickup has a separate volume control, that can split it before going into the switch, where the necessary pickups are selected and connected together for the desired positions.
I am also using the Master Tone to switch between two capacitors.
Can anyone confirm that this does what I envisioned?
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Looking over the diagram, it does work how you imagine, switching wise. I have a guitar set up similarly.
One thing to note here is that when you have the pickups parallel with each other, and separate volume knobs for each pickup, there is a path to ground through each of the volume knobs for the connected pickups (neck/middle pair, etc). Because of this, if, for example, you were on the Neck/Middle setting, and rolled back the middle volume to 0, there will be no sound output. The only way to avoid that would be to have each pickup going to an active preamp, and then mix the output signals actively.
In my guitar, I just live with the passively switched, connected volume knobs.
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