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Basic Guitar Electronics XVII - Using a megaswitch to wire an Ibanez RG 7321 / 320

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Uploaded by on Aug 3, 2011

Using a megaswitch instead of the original to wire an Ibanez RG 7321/320.

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  • If its not too much trouble, out of this wishful array, what would you recommend? I would like to add a bridge/neck together option without loosing my existing 5, in that option being able to reverse the phase between them (Jimmi Page Style). In youtube there is a man that has all serial, parallel and sigle coil taps on his humbuckers and can do neck bridge, he does it with 3 3on dpdt switches, but only has 1 tone...I have 2. Maybe a Megaswitch and push/pull pots can save that tone pot.

  • @contact1araya

    A megaswitch still only has five positions so push/pull pots and/or dpdt switches would be the way to go in my opinion.

    If you want to switch a pickup out of phase you have to make sure that metal parts like covers and mounting brackets don't get connected to the hot side of the circuit; those parts need a separate ground connection in that case (the same goes for wiring in series).

  • Maybe you can help me out: I have a HSH strat regular 5way switch, its the only guitar I am going to own so I wanted to do some creative wiring..come up with new sounds. First to add the neck and bridge combination to my existing possibilities. Then I learned about coil tapping (series, parallel, single coil) thats within one humbucker, but you can also do series and parallel between neck, middle and/or bridge and.......out of phase!! As you would have guessed I have no idea of the result.

  • @contact1araya

    Parallel sounds thinner, clearer than in series. Parallel and out of phase sounds very thin, funky; In series and out of phase sounds thicker than parallel out of phase; Brian May of Queen used it a lot like the solos in Bohemian Rhapsody and Somebody to Love to name just two.

    Coil tap (coil split maybe the correcter term) I find very useable: humbucker and single coil in one pickup.

  • is a megaswitch like Stewart Mac is the same as a fender SuperSwitch?

  • @contact1araya

    As far as I can see the Megaswitches at Stewmac (E, P, S and T models) are standard 2, 3 or 5 way switches.

    The type I 'use' in de video is called a Super Switch there; it has 24 connectors, 4 commons each with their own 5 lugs.

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