( Fig 4C) This position may not be the most popular of the 5 positions but you’ll hear it used by players such as Clapton and SRV to name a few.Ĭouldn’t Stand the Weather (Middle + Neck) You could take an Ohm reading from any of those terminals and it will read the same middle pickup. When we select position 3 with our standard 5-way switch wiring, the middle pickup goes from A2 to A0 to B0 to B2. Mark Knopfler used position 2 on many Dire Straits songs including his famous tune Sultans of Swing. The high end is bleeding off to ground for both pickups. Since B0, B1, B2 are connected together via the wiper, when we roll down tone 2 it will affect both pickups by the same amount. On the pole B side the wiper is connecting B0, B1, and B2 ( Fig 4B). Just like A0, B0 is seeing both bridge and middle pickups. When we select position 2 with our standard 5-way switch wiring, it sends both bridge (A1) and middle (A2) to A0 then to B0 via the jumper. In a traditional Stratocaster guitar wiring, we don’t have a tone pot connected to B1, the bridge is unaffected by either of the tone controls. As you can see from Fig 3A, the bridge shows up in several places. And since the commons are connected via a jumper, the bridge is also being sent to B0. Simple right?! So what is really happening in a standard Strat wiring? Well, when we select position 1 (Fig 3A), we are sending (connecting) our bridge pickup A1 to common A0. Finally, we’ll attach our volume lead wire to common B0. Next, we will attach the Tone 1 (closest to your volume pot) lead wire to B3 and tone 2 to B2. In a standard Stratocaster wiring configuration, the bridge pickup goes to A1, middle to A2, and neck to A3 ( Fig 3). Once we have both sides connected via the jumper, we can add the pickup hot lead wires to Pole A side of the switch. This allows us to use both sides of the switch for different functions. Remember A0 and B0 are the common terminals. First, we have to connect both sides of the switch by adding a “jumper” from terminal A0 to B0 ( Fig 2). If you remember from Part 1, the anatomy of a 5 way Strat switch, we have two sides: Pole A and Pole B ( Fig 1). If you haven’t read Part 1 yet, start here. In part 2 we are going to look at a traditional, standard Strat wiring configuration with a 5-way switch and teach you step by step how to get it done.
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