jp6 switching options

[Adamr]

hi lads.

i was gonna sell my jp6 a few months ago . and after sitting and playing it for an hour i decided i was stupid for even thinking about letting it go. and i havent put it down since really.
the reason i was thinking of letting it go was because i wanted more sounds out of it . on top of the awesome stuff it already puts out.

so i wondered is there anything i could do with pickup selecting options i could do without drilling/routing. destroying the body of the guitar. i am already planning on fitting a push pull pot for splitting the coils. but i wondered if anyone has done anything different or if theres some sort of super switch available i could get that u can wire different combinations up to.

thanks in advance.

 

[beej]

Well ... you can do other things with the wiring (parallel, split, some resistor & cap tricks, out of phase, 1/2 out of phase, etc.) ... but you're going to be in somewhat of the same ballpark (i.e. it's not going to sound like a strat no matter what you do).

What sounds are missing?

 

[Adamr]

was just thinking of different ways to wire the pickups but to a 3 way switch using pull pots. like the nearest bridge coil + nearest neck coil together etc. that kind of idea anyway. is this possible?

 

[beej]

FYI ... you already get that combination of inside coils in the middle position.

Easiest way to do it is B, B&N, N with a coil split (for inside coils) so you'd get the splits in those switch positions as well. StewMac has a 6-way switch that could do all of this on the fly, I have not actually used it though. (Keep in mind any coil splits will pick up noise.)

Inside vs outside coils can be done with a second push/pull. Though that's much more involved and a pain, for little benefit.

You could do two push/pulls ... each one to set the neck or bridge to series/parallel. (But you'd need one push/pull for each p'up.)

It all depends on how handy you are with a soldering iron and how much experimenting you'd want to do. My take on it is that the wiring is pretty good stock. The HBs sound great and you have a one-coil-from-each-pup in the middle, which gives you a great clean sound.

 

[Adamr]

cheers beej , just had a look at stew mac . and ive seen the 6 way toggle. that looks as if it will do the job. im gonna get a tech to do it. so it should be ok . i love the sound of the guitar already i just wondered if theres any wiring options available just to add to waht it does already.

thanks a lot. was a big help.

 

[threeminutesboy]

Jason is the forum électronic guru, always a great help