Tele wiring question

[crochambeau]

HMMNM.

Gotta think about this. I don't normally mess with in-between settings. I'm either all or nothing which is why I'm considering this.

Then simply connect the signal wire directly to your output jack, then you can connect the switch such that it will connect to the cap which is soldered to ground.

[DRodriguez]

HMMNM.

Gotta think about this. I don't normally mess with in-between settings. I'm either all or nothing which is why I'm considering this.

Check out this article. There's a sample of a 3 capacitor version of a rotary knob on there clean and distorted. It's pretty cool to just open up the tone possibilities. It's still all or nothing. Just with more alls.

[neonblack]

Man, that's really cool!

So I think to start with, I'm going to do a push/pull pot. Volume on push, tone on pull. I just want to get the guitar done for now and then when I figure out what I do and don't like about it, I can fix those things later.

[DRodriguez]

Man, that's really cool!

So I think to start with, I'm going to do a push/pull pot. Volume on push, tone on pull. I just want to get the guitar done for now and then when I figure out what I do and don't like about it, I can fix those things later.

Do a stacked pot, no switching.

[crochambeau]

Man, that's really cool!

So I think to start with, I'm going to do a push/pull pot. Volume on push, tone on pull. I just want to get the guitar done for now and then when I figure out what I do and don't like about it, I can fix those things later.

Do a stacked pot, no switching.

Yeah, the configuration change between tone pot and volume pot would make for a complex switching arrangement, and I get the impression you'd prefer to avoid that. If control clutter is your concern a concentric/stacked would be the way to go.

Electrically speaking, any arrangement you settle on could be done off guitar in a stomp enclosure, so even just going straight to the jack with NO controls remains an option IF you don't need to twiddle it near the strings.

[neonblack]

Shit. Like a tone pedal? SHIT. WITH A LITTLE DRIVE? SHIT!!!

[PeteeBee]

I've been thinking about that for years! Like a volume pedal but it's tone. Ideally I'd love a volume pedal and tone (two separate pedals) and then a guitar with no knobs at all. So hot.

[neonblack]

I wouldn't need expression control over the tone. Maybe either a rotary or a footswitch to cycle through 2-3 tone settings and then bypass it when I want full bore. And dirty boost on another footswitch.

Someone make the fuck out of this.

[PeteeBee]

Well you could easily do that with a programmable eq pedal with presets. I know there is one of those already. Source audio I think makes it?

[neonblack]

Yeah but I want something simple and cheap haha

[PeteeBee]

Hahaha my man. I freaking get that. While we're dreaming, I'd dig a little 3 loop true bypass looper with a tone knob for each. Like you could have a dark modulation loop, a bright drive loop, and a dark drives one.

[neonblack]

That seems totally doable.

I always wanted a bypass looper with a latching and momentary switch. When the loop is off you can do bursts with it, like something crazy noisy or something. Like get a delay oscillating and just do momentary bursts of noise.

Or if it was on you could do momentary clean bursts in the middle of the noise.

Someone could make a lot of money off bypass loopers hah!

[crochambeau]

These notions you drive at are fully buildable, but the switch count & hardware sort of pulls it out of the "cheap" territory...

[DRodriguez]

Lol, there was just a thread all about this with UG a couple days ago

[neonblack]

These notions you drive at are fully buildable, but the switch count & hardware sort of pulls it out of the "cheap" territory...

Yeah, I said cheap and simple but I guess that's not what I really want