Offset Rhythm Circuit - both pickups?

chrisj1602

I generally prefer both pickups on for a rhythm sound, so I was thinking I could mod my Jaguar to have both pickups engaged in the rhythm circuit.

Just wondering if anyone knows if this is possible, how to do it, or may have tried it?

meltedbuzzbox

It is possible, I think you can even have the 3 way switch work with the rhythm section so you can use all three pickups. 

how you do it? I dont know but I am sure someone on here has done this very thing. 

OSG is always a good place to ask

*edit* whoops didnt see it was for a Jaguar

GuitarMonkey

Just wire the pickups to the 3-way, then route the signal to one or the other set of controls using one side of the slider, and to the jack using the other side.

stickyfiddle

Jags don't have 3-ways, chaps

What you can actually do is re-wire to have the main pickup switches make both pickups go in series when set to "off" but otherwise work as normal. Very useful and stops you being able to mute the guitar by accident

GuitarMonkey

You should fit one then, it's much easier to use!

ICBM

There are a lot of options. There's enough wire in there to run it almost any way you want...

One I like is to put the rhythm circuit switch before the main volume and tone controls rather than after, so they become master controls active all the time, and the rhythm circuit works *as well* when selected.

But I use the rhythm circuit as a fuzz control circuit rather than for rhythm usually. The main volume control on a Jag does odd things with some fuzzes because there's an extra resistor in the circuit when the volume is less than full up.

GuitarMonkey

You could still connect as I suggested but for three way read pickup switches.

ICBM

GuitarMonkey said:

You should fit one then, it's much easier to use!

But Jaguar switches wired to give on/off/parallel/series is better still . And you can use the other switch for phase, if you want that.