Help! new switch to a Morse

[Siddius]

I would like to know how I would go about adding a switch that would bypass all electronics and justgo straight to bridge humbucker at full volume (aka bypass volume and tone)? The versatility of the Morse is great, but very difficult to dial in live. I figure, this way I could set whatever clean tone I want, and then when it comes time to explode, I only have 1 switch to get back to full throttle, as opposed to 2 switches, a blade, and 2 knobs.

Thanks

 

[stratamania]

Do you have any coil splits or anything already going on ?
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I have some diagrams I made to do this somewhere. I'll dig them out and send a link. It may take me a day or so.

 

[Siddius]

I do not. The bridge hb is not connected to the tone pot. That's it.
Thanks!

 

[Bob123]

You would basically wire in a SPST switch on the jack. You would wire the normal out (From the volume knob), and tap into the bridge out put. this would be as direct as you can go.

 

[beej]

You could probably do it a few ways. I would use a DPDT toggle so you can make/break two connections at once.

In the normal switch position, you'd connect the pickup to where it would normally be wired (lever switch), and the output jack as normal.

In the bridge only switch position, you would disconnect the bridge from the lever, disconnect the output jack from the volume pot, and connect the two directly. So you keep the right load on the pickup, I'd wire a 125k resistor to ground, in parallel (gives you what you'd get with 2 x 250k pots).

You could put it on a push/pull, but I'd either add a toggle to the pickguard or replace the 3-way neck single toggle with a DPDT and put it there instead.

Hope that helps.

 

[stratamania]

I'd do it in a similar way to Beej, but will post a link probably tomorrow also for a 4PDT solution.

I'm not sure I would bother with the resistors as usually the idea with this type of setup is to bypass all pots and so on to get straight to the output Jack untethered.

 

[tommyindelaware]

you could also
use the existing switch that normally solo's the neck slant

 

[Bob123]

Yeah, theres totally more than one way to skin this cat. The only concern I would have is signal bleed through. Ive done this to a few guitars, and I've never been 100% happy. I've tried a couple different switches, and theres always a small amount of signal bleed through.

 

[fenderball]

im following this....interested

 

[Siddius]

Yeah, theres totally more than one way to skin this cat. The only concern I would have is signal bleed through. Ive done this to a few guitars, and I've never been 100% happy. I've tried a couple different switches, and theres always a small amount of signal bleed through.

Signal bleed through? I understand the term in general, but bleed through from what? to what effect?

Also, beej, I do 500k pots, if that makes a difference.

Thanks, everyone! Please keep 'em coming, this is great stuff!

 

[Bob123]

Signal bleed through? I understand the term in general, but bleed through from what? to what effect?

Also, beej, I do 500k pots, if that makes a difference.

Thanks, everyone! Please keep 'em coming, this is great stuff!

I've done this mod more than a couple times. Signal bleed means with everything OFF you still get some signal going through. Its really annoying, its just sometimes the only way to get the job done.

Not sure why you'd want a humbucker at 250k ohm though

 

[DrKev]

Morse guitars have 250kOhm pots as standard. With 500k Ohm pots, the single coils sound too shrill, and the Morse-designed DiMarzio humbuckers sound great at 250k Ohm.

 

[stratamania]

4PDT Blower switch

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