I just went back and had a look at the coil split thread, because I've been reading a lot about the various mods you can do with two four wire humbuckers (which I just happen to have, because I bought some new PUP's based on advice on this site). In any event, I've got a LP with two four wire humbuckers, and a couple of push-pull pots for the tone. I've never done any of these kinds of mods though, and haven't been able to dig up the diagram for exactly what I have in mind (if it's even possible). Any comments or links appreciated.
Warning - It get's real nerdy from here:
The three mods I'd like to integrate are:
1) A spin-a-split for the neck pickup. Basically you sacrifice one tone control (making the other one a master tone), and turn it into a variable coil split. So instead of just being split or not split, you can turn the knob and dial in a varying balance between the coils.
http://www.smitspickups.com/coiltapping.htm About halfway down the page.
2) Use the push/pull on this same knob to put the pickups in either parallel (normal), or series to eachother.
http://www.1728.com/guitar10.htm The second, single switch option
3) Use the other push/pull to put the pickups in our out of phase from one another
http://www.1728.com/guitar.htm near the bottom of the page.
I've found links and diagrams for each of these mods individually, just not sure if there is any consideration I'm missing or reasons I can't do all three, as noted above?
Coil taps are simple/common. Phase switching is simple/common. Coil tapping with a 4-wire is a no brainer. Phase switching is a little, tiny bit more involved, and gives you that nasty funky wah-sounding-scooped out sound. Hollow, almost.
spin-a-split came standard on the Peavey t-60/t-40. It's a fucking sick (and useful) thing to have. You can phase switch and coil tap the same circuit.
If you can follow instructions, it's all pretty easy to do. I like mini-switches, but I also like non-invasive mods to guitars, so push-pulls are good for me.
(http://www.nealmoser.com/images/Bich%20PMS%20control%20layout%20-%20450%20pix.jpg)
the mini switches just look so cool, though...
So I've done some more research into this, and cobbled together a schematic based on pieces of about 3 other ones. Can someone who knows such things look and see where I fucked it up?
Intended operation is:
Two volumes, 1 master tone, 3 way
Spin a split on bridge tone
tone split on neck/master tone (basically, tone full on equals split coil, anything less than full equals humbucker with regular tone control)
Series/parallel switch on bridge push pull
Phase switch on neck push pull
(http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f59/chille51/Pickups.jpg)