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Jazzmaster Rythm Circuit disabled
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 12:47 pm
by sun baked snow cave
I am looking to disable the rythm circuit in my jazzmaster. To do this I need to wire it for 2 single coils with 1 tone and 1 volume and a pickup selector.
I am a little confused in terms of grounding and where to ground and how to ground. My jazzmaster had ground from the body aswell going somewhere (not to sure). I think this had to do with it having shielding paint in the cavity (it is a VM btw).
I had my hand at rewiring it and got wayy too much noise already. ALSO is the hot wire from the pickup always black? My pickups have black and white wires (pickup wizard jazzmasters) and I am not sure if I am attaching the wrong wire to the pickup selector.
Thanks for the help!!!
Re: Jazzmaster Rythm Circuit disabled
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 12:49 pm
by sun baked snow cave
I also have a multimeter at my disposal but not much idea how to use it to check anything
Re: Jazzmaster Rythm Circuit disabled
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 3:09 pm
by sun baked snow cave
If anyone has a diagram that would be great.
Re: Jazzmaster Rythm Circuit disabled
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 3:12 pm
by skullservant
Pulling up a diagram for you now. It'll be a tele diagram but work the same for you
Re: Jazzmaster Rythm Circuit disabled
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 3:13 pm
by skullservant
The ground wires you see go to the trem thimbles and to the body
Here is the diagram:
http://www.riograndepickups.com/images/ ... le_LRG.pdfUsually black wires indicate ground, but I'm not sure of pickup wizard
Re: Jazzmaster Rythm Circuit disabled
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 4:22 pm
by sun baked snow cave
It doesn't really show where the ground wires are coming from though. Where would I attach the groudn wire from the trem thimbles and body?
Re: Jazzmaster Rythm Circuit disabled
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 4:23 pm
by skullservant
Unless you ripped out ground wires that were originally on the body and the thimbles, they should already be installed on your guitar
Re: Jazzmaster Rythm Circuit disabled
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 4:28 pm
by sun baked snow cave
Yeah but what I am asking is where do I attachj those ground wires. One to each pot? Sorry I am doing this all for the first time and I appreciate your help!!
Re: Jazzmaster Rythm Circuit disabled
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 4:39 pm
by skullservant
No problem dude. Really, as long as those wires are attached to SOME part of the ground, you will be fine. It can be one wire per pot, both wires on one pot, etc etc as long as they are going to ground
Re: Jazzmaster Rythm Circuit disabled
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 9:18 pm
by sun baked snow cave
For some reason it is not getting me any sound, if I get a multimeter what am i lookin for, I have never really used one before
Re: Jazzmaster Rythm Circuit disabled
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 9:24 pm
by skullservant
Pictures would be AWESOME
Re: Jazzmaster Rythm Circuit disabled
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 10:57 pm
by Decibill
The ground wire from your pots and pickup circuit must lead to the ground of the input jack.
Re: Jazzmaster Rythm Circuit disabled
Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2014 10:28 am
by sun baked snow cave
Here is a picture and I have labelled most of everything. Any help is much appreciated as I would like to have the guitar working by Saturday.
You guy's see any problems? Sorry if the picture is not too clear.
Re: Jazzmaster Rythm Circuit disabled
Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2014 10:50 am
by skullservant
You should have a hot signal going to the larger tab on the jack and not ground, that's the issue. Switch your jack wiring around first and see if that solves it
Re: Jazzmaster Rythm Circuit disabled
Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2014 11:05 am
by sun baked snow cave
Oh woops! I didnt even know that they were different sizes. Do you see any other potential problems?
