RG1527 stock pickup wiring options?

[JohnnyRG1527]

Hi all just a quick question....

I've got an rg1527 with the stock pups in (i know, i know, rubbish!) i fitted a push/pull pot for a kill switch (i prefer it to drilling holes for a toggle and i'm used to it now) anyway, the push/pull came in a pack of 2 so i was wondering if i could use the spare one to achieve anymore pickup options, in particular a phase switch or coil tap for the bridge pickup? is this possible with stock pickups?

Cheers, John.

[djohns74]

A coil tap should be possible without too much trouble. In fact, with a single push-pull switch, you could coil-tap both humbuckers at once if you wanted to. This would leave the 2 and 4 positions of middle + split humbucker unaffected as well, they would behave the same whether the coil tap was engaged or not.

I modified an Ibanez wiring diagram as an example:



Everything should already be in place except for the two red wires heading off to the right and connecting to the push-pull pot. These merely extend the coil-tap wires which should already be in place and which are (hopefully!) red. Ibanez has been known to reverse the colors of the wires on pickups of the same model from different years though, so it's possible that the white wires are actually the coil taps. The green on the switch shows that you'll want to ground both of the middle terminals to the pot casing and that should be it.

[JohnnyRG1527]

thanks dude thats just what i was looking for, but mine has no single coil so would this still work?

[djohns74]

Originally Posted by JohnnyRG1527

thanks dude thats just what i was looking for, but mine has no single coil so would this still work?

Oh right, that's the 7 string. I'm still not completely up to speed on Ibanez's current numbering scheme for RGs.

Well, the concept is similar, but the neck pickup in yours appears to actually be a four-wire model and from the way it's wired, I don't think you can just add in coil-tapping for it without changing the existing wiring. Of course, you already have the option of parallel wiring on the neck pickup, which I prefer to coil-tapping anyway.

However, you can still split the bridge using something similar to the diagram above. According to Ibanez, yours is actually one of the ones where the white wire is for coil tapping rather than the red. Just trace the bridge pickup's white wire to the switch, add in a jumper to the push-pull as I showed above and it should work fine.

[JohnnyRG1527]

ok nice one i'll give it a go! thanks buddy

[JohnnyRG1527]

cool i've done this and it works a treat my only thing with it is when i use my distortion with the coil tap it gets very noisy, i know its because its no longer 'humbucking' but when the selector switch is set in coil tap position (both inner coils) it doesn't make any noise really compared to this. could it be the ground as i only used a thin wire to ground the terminal to the casing?

Not really a big issue because i'll probbably only use it clean anyway, but i'm picky

[GuitarBizarre]

The inner coils could be wound reverse polarity to each other. If thats the case then they'll buck hum when used together, although because they're wound differently they will reject only a portion of the hum, with the rest 'spilling over' to produce a quieter hum from one or other coil.

[JohnnyRG1527]

i see, i just picked up my rg548 which has a single in the center and its the same i just never noticed it before so it's all good loving the sound of the tapped bridge though!

Thanks for the help guys

[Gio-42]

as i have a gio with hums and single coil, would that diagram for my shadow killpot? i want the killpot to be the volume though? any ideas guys 'n' gals?

thanks.

[scotteggshell]

I wire all my HH guitars like the RGT320 I have. You need a special switch(rich has them) but the sounds are very useful. I don't connect the middle SC on my 1570 because I like the parallel and tapping options the RGT wiring gives you more than the middle pup combinations.

Scott

[Gio-42]

the guitar i have is a rg70 i think??? should i take it that the shadow kill pot will not work on it then? it only has 1 tone and 1 vol, hsh and 5way. damn. thats ****ed up the killpot idea for that project then. lol