Changed circuit on Axis Sport?

[Julian]

Hey there,

as I'm new here, I just wanted to introduce myself quick before I start. My name is Julian, I'm a 26 year old professional guitarist from Griesheim (near Frankfurt), Germany and my everyday-live-setup contains a MM Axis Sport (HH) into (after a bunch of stompboxes) a Koch Multitone 100W 2x12''-Combo (great amp!!!).

Has anybody changed his Axis Sport-Cicuit? I'm just interested in finding new options.

At the moment I have position 1, 3 and 5 normal (Les Paul-like) but on position 2 I have both inner coils together (seriell, like a streched humbucker) and on position 4 I have both neck-coils parallel and this parallel together with the bridge humbucker (serial).

Before that I used to have also two push-pull potis, so I had on positions 1-5 bridge pu, both inner coils, both pus, both outer coils and neck pu. With the pp-potis I could swap all serial and parallel circuits.

I'm interested in what you did.

As I'm not a native speaker, I hope you still understand what I try to say .

Cheers,

Julian

 

[beej]

Welcome man!

Lots of guys have tried out different wiring combinations. Among the ones I like are the series/parallel wiring (see the MM site for the diagram for the 25th Anniversary guitar), the "spin a split" wiring where you can gradually ground one coil with the tone control, etc. Lots of great ideas out there.

 

[Jonny Dubai]

Welcome mate. 5 way switch is enough for me! If I want more I just pick up another guitar!!!!

Stick around this is a cool place to hang.

Peace

J

 

[Julian]

[...] Among the ones I like are the series/parallel wiring (see the MM site for the diagram for the 25th Anniversary guitar) [...]

My version with the push-pull-potis gave me the exact same possibilities, plus the ability to have on position 3 either 1&2+3&4, 1+2 + 3&4, 1&2 + 3+4 or 1+2 + 3+4 and i didn't have to build in any swiches and could change it backwards after finding my 5 most used positions.

The spin a split- mod sounds also interesting ...

 

[Jack FFR1846]

Julian,

I made some changes on my modified Sub 1 that's named the Sublhouette. Here are the switching possibilities.....hang on....I went a bit overboard with 2 6 way double pole rotary switches.

For the neck hum:
pos 1: hum
pos 2: single coil (the screws)
pos 3: single coil (the magnets)
pos 4: single coil reverse phase (the magnets)
pos 5: single coil reverse phase (the screws)
pos 6: hum reverse phase

bridge pickup....same options as above

Pickup switch....just neck, both, just bridge

No tone knob (I also have an Axis with none) the pic is before I removed the tone and replaced it with the 3 way switch.
Volume changed from the stock 250k to 500k.

 

[ShaneV]

Howdy. Don't have an Axis SS or any of the other variants, so I can't speak to changing one up (though all my guitars do end up with altered electronics sooner or later). Just wanted to say that that AS is gorgeous. Love the black with no binding, it means business!