Question Al SSS switch settings Pleez?

[Jack FFR1846]

My searching has not found the answer, and I know that the sound itself is the important thing, but can someone tell me what each of the 5 positions on the SSS Al are? I assume from the sound that pos 1 (toward the bridge) is just the bridge, 3 (middle) is the middle and 5 (neck) is the neck only. I'm using #2 now for upcoming songs and love the sound and I'm guessing it's some out of phase thing going on but hey.....I'm a techy and want to understand exactly what's going on. So position 2 and 4 are somewhat a mystery to me.....help please?

 

[glockaxis]

Two I believe is a combo of bridge and middle and position 4 is a combo of middle and neck. Is that what you are looking for, or do you what some deeper technical explanation?

 

[John C]

Yep - glockaxis is correct about the pickup combos. It is the interaction of the two pickups and how they are wired - positions 2 & 4 are those tones that Strat people tend to call "quack". On the technical side I'm not sure if it is that the pickups are "out of phase" or if they are parallel wired in those positions instead of series.

 

[Spudmurphy]

Go here Ernie Ball Music Man Albert Lee Guitar
click on the diagram and schematic link and you'll have everything ya need to know.
Spud

 

[threeminutesboy]

yep Typical strat wiring

2&4 position are 3 pups in parallel

 

[Jack FFR1846]

Go here Ernie Ball Music Man Albert Lee Guitar
click on the diagram and schematic link and you'll have everything ya need to know.
Spud

Dead link....I went there first....


I've never owned a strat, so don't really have that as a reference. So my understanding at this point is 2 is bridge/middle in parallel/in phase....and 4 is neck/middle in parallel/in phase.

 

[threeminutesboy]

Jack PM me your Email address I will send you the diagram if you want

 

[Spudmurphy]

Dead link....I went there first....

That's strange - it works fine for me. When you click on the link it downloads a zipped .pdf file- that's got all the info you want.
Suggestion - check your folder that holds files d/l'd to your computer - it's prolly sitting there just waiting for ya?

 

[jamminjim]

yep Typical strat wiring

2&4 position are 3 pups in parallel

I don't think so....

position 2 would be bridge and middle pups in parallel

position 4 is neck and middle pups in parallel

(the middle pup on modern strats is a reverse would reverse polarity pickup to help with noise cancelation )

in pos 2 & 4 you get the strat quack sounds which is due to the positions of the pickups relative to each other

(now, that might have been what you were trying to say, I don't know)

Also looking back in this thread Jack nailed it first..... Sorry to duplicate ya Jack...

 

[jamminjim]

the wiring is basically the same as this

basic strat wiring diagram

 

[Spudmurphy]

here ya go

 

[jamminjim]

what program did you use to convert the file Spud ?

 

[Spudmurphy]

^
I just displayed it on the screen then pressed the print screen button.
Opened up adobe and pasted it into a new file then saved as a .jpeg.
Nothing too technical for me!!

 

[threeminutesboy]

I don't think so....

position 2 would be bridge and middle pups in parallel

position 4 is neck and middle pups in parallel

(the middle pup on modern strats is a reverse would reverse polarity pickup to help with noise cancelation )

in pos 2 & 4 you get the strat quack sounds which is due to the positions of the pickups relative to each other

(now, that might have been what you were trying to say, I don't know)

Also looking back in this thread Jack nailed it first..... Sorry to duplicate ya Jack...

Sorry I meant 2 pups and indeed it's what I was trying to say