Y2D question...

[odur]

Hi,
I own one Y2D guitar and I just love it, but... I want to be able to split the
bridge humbucker...Question is: is it possible? and if so how?
There are only red, green and clear wires coming from the pickup.
The red goes to the 5-way switch and green and clear to the pot as ground.
Thanks in advance,
odur

 

[Butch Snyder]

Hi,
I own one Y2D guitar and I just love it, but... I want to be able to split the
bridge humbucker...Question is: is it possible? and if so how?
There are only red, green and clear wires coming from the pickup.
The red goes to the 5-way switch and green and clear to the pot as ground.
Thanks in advance,
odur

Hi Odur,

Welcome to the forum!!

I just got a Y2D myself. I thought about doing almost the same thing. Only, I was going to install a 250k push/pull pot to split both humbuckers. I decided against it. Given the wiring you just said, I can't offer anything other than a welcome here and to wait upon others to show up. You'll surely get an answer shortly.

Cheers,

 

[tommyindelaware]

there is a black & white wire covered w/ heat shrink if you look closer.
question for ya. do you use your tone control.....or do you always play w/ it all the way up ?

 

[odur]

thanks for the replys guys,
tommyindelaware: thanks, I found the black and white wires so if I put in new push/pull pot I should be able to split the pickup..
I use the tone control mostly in all the way up position, yes.

 

[tommyindelaware]

if you wouldn't miss the tone control....u can wire the pot that is now being used as a tone control to be used as a blender control indtead...........for one of the hummer coils. it's simple to do.....& very easy to put exactly back to original if desired.

 

[odur]

That´s interresting...how would you connect the wires?

 

[odur]

tommyindelaware: do you have scematic of this wireing?

 

[tommyindelaware]

just in my head.......but i will try to take a high res photo sometime today and post it.
beej may have a drawing of a similar circut.

 

[odur]

Thanks, I look forward to your next post

 

[beej]

Tommy's spot on ... it's a great suggestion. I did it to my Morse and Y2D (never used the tone controls on either) and it gives you a good range of sounds as you dial in the spit. I've had push/pull splits before and this is much quicker to operate as you don't have to fumble to pull the pot while you're playing.

There's a wiring diagram here on the Duncan site. The colours will be different though- the black and white wires (under the heat shrink) will go to the tone pot, and you leave the others where they are.

 

[odur]

Beej, thanks.. you made my day!

 

[odur]

Ok here are the results of my experiments, I started with the tone pot as blender/splitter on the bridge HB. I decided then to try out the pull/push mod, installed new pull/push pot for volume and connected both neck and bridge HB...the guitar has changed to tone monster .
Thanks again for your input,
odur

 

[beej]

Hey great- glad that worked out for ya.

I went the other way- a push/pull for bridge & neck, then a 4pdt toggle for both bridge & neck in series/split/parallel ... and then finally just the spin a split on the bridge.