What is considered noraml tone/volume wiring?

[bhuether]

Man seems like the more I research wiring the more questions I have!


I just looked inside my Carvin DC127 guitar (with 2 humbuckers) and noticed that the wiring for the tone and volume controls looks like no standard wiring I have seen. I made a diagram here:

http://www.guitar-dreams.com/misc/ca...127_wiring.jpg

Notice how the tone capacitor is connected. I thought these caps were supposed to go to ground?

Also, I see lots of differences in how volume tone pots are connected.

Here, we see volume input connected to middle of tone pot and tone cqapacitor conencted to input terminal (then to ground)

http://www.dimarzio.com//media/diagrams/D.pdf


Seymour Duncan is sort of opposite and has volume input connected to tone pot's input and tone capacitor connected to middle terminal (then to ground).

http://www.seymourduncan.com/images/..._1t_3w_1pp.jpg

And then at this great site, most of the diagrams have volume and tone inputs connected and then tone cap connected at middle terminal then to ground (which I suppose is like Seymour Duncan):

http://www.geocities.jp/dgb_studio/faq_e.htm

Just trying to wrap my mind around these differences so I can figure out how to wire up one of my guitars. THe most confusing thing is the way the tone cap is connected on my Carvin...

thanks,

brian

[warren]

go to amazon and get a book mate, a good one is "Understanding wireing" by tim swike. good book, that will answer most is not all of your quesstions.

hope you get it sorted out mate, it can be very confusing!

[Vim Fuego]

Actually, i think all these diagrams are equivalent...
If you take your Carvin diagram and ignore C1 for a moment you have:
1) Signal comes in to volume pot and tone pot in parallel.
2) High frequency part of signal goes to ground through capacitor (C2) and then tone pot.

The DiMarzio does the same except the order of the tone pot and capacitor are reversed, that is the signal goes through the tone pot then the capacitor.

Seymour Duncan does the same as the DiMarzio, signal goes through the tone pot then the capacitor.

With components in series like the capacitor and tone pot, the order doesn't matter.

The C1 in your diagram allows some of the treble in the signal to bypass the volume control so that when you turn down the sound doesn't lose treble. This is optional and some guitars have it some don't (It's on a push pull switch on a JS1200)

Jim