interesting push/pull tone pot variations - give me some ide

[shawn]

i just got a push/pull tone pot (friend gave it to me) and i want to use it very creatively, can you guys tell me any and all of the ways you know to use one? *thanks a lot.

[RSVampire]

well if you don't want to spend money you can make it where you can make your humbuckers into single coils....or you could make it as a decable booster for solos or something. Or you can make it a kill switch.....

[shawn]

how would you make it a volume (decibel) boost? *all great ideas, by the way

[darren wilson]

Before giving too many suggestions, it might be helpful to know what kind of guitar you've got, what pickups are in it, and what your current switching scheme is. (i.e. What kind of switch and which pickups/coils are activated in each position.)

To have the push/pull switch act as a dB boost, you'd need an active (battery-powered) preamp on-board.

You could use it to access a pickup combo that isn't otherwise available on your guitar.

Another option is to have it act as a bypass or "blower" switch, where it connects your bridge humbucker directly to the output jack, bypassing the pickup selector, the volume and the tone controls.

[shawn]

i have a 7vwh and a UV777, both stock -- and ill be doing it to one of them. *so what would it do to the tone to use the push/pull as a "blower"? *and if i want to try this, how would i wire it? *thanks

correction--the UV is not stock, it has a paf7 in the neck and an evo7 (soon to try a tone zone 7) in the bridge

(Edited by shawn at 3:06 pm on Feb. 20, 2001)

[Jimi D]

Why don't you wire it up to add the full neck pickup to whatever setting you have on the 5-way? That way you can get the neck + bridge HBs together, or the neck HB with the middle alone or middle + split bridge. I've always liked that mod myself, anyway...