The New Gibson Les Paul And Epiphone Wiring Diagrams Book : How To Wire And Hot Rod Your Guitar by Swike Tim

Author:Swike, Tim [Swike, Tim]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2018-10-12T16:00:00+00:00

SERIES/PARALLEL WIRING

If you are looking to get more volume and midrange out of your pickups, you might want to try adding a series/parallel switch to your setup. Parallel wiring between two pickups is probably what you are used to by now. It's used in most guitars to add clarity to the sound. Series wiring is a little different. It produces a longer path with more resistance. This additional resistance prevents the higher tones from getting through the circuit, and allows more low/midrange tones to get through. In series wiring, the output of one pickup goes into the input of another pickup. In parallel wiring, each pickup takes its own path to the output.

Here is a Les Paul style guitar with the series/parallel wiring. When both pickups are on, just pull out the treble tone push pull pot, and it will switch both pickups to be in series with one another. Push it back down for parallel wiring. All potentiometer cases will have ground wires soldered to them, including the push pull pot.

Here is a close-up of the push pull pot being used as a series/parallel switch in the diagram on the previous page.

If you have a 4-wire humbucker on your guitar, then you can add a series/parallel on/on mini toggle switch like this. Another pickup needs to be on in order to get the series wiring between the two pickups. The hot wire leaving the mini toggle goes to the pickup selector switch, just like a normal 2-wire pickup. This diagram uses the same color codes as a Seymour Duncan pickup. Black is hot, green is ground, and red and white form the series link.

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