how to wire up this guitar

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I have a guitar and I want to hook up a Seymour duncan Blackout and a Seymour duncan Hot rails up to a 3 way switch and a volume pot. anyone know how?
 
You can't do it.

Or, more to the point, you can't do it practically.

The impedance mismatch makes it impossible to wire a passive pickup and an active pickup together directly, though it IS possible to do so if you use some kind of buffer amp on the passive pickup, but that will have some effect on the sound of the pickup. Not a lot, and probably not a bad one, but an effect none the less.

The good news, if you go that route, is you can use the same battery for the Blackout and the buffer. If you really want to do it (I don't recommend it), I'd suggest a Bartolini preamp. I'm not sure what the model is for the just magnetic version (as opposed to the two channel magnetic/piezo version), but I'm pretty sure it is not on their short list of regularly made products so it will take a while to get.


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well how about instead of a blackout humbucker how would you wire up the hotrail and a dimebucker
 
what if you put in some kind of a kill switch that would cut off the voltage?
 
I just want it to work like the 3 way switch turns on the dimebucker and set to the middle cuts on both and then set up the switch to the top cuts on the hot rail
 
tom18222 said:
what if you put in some kind of a kill switch that would cut off the voltage?
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The voltage has nothing to do with it. They have a massive impedance mismatch.



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thenextbigthing said:
I just want it to work like the 3 way switch turns on the dimebucker and set to the middle cuts on both and then set up the switch to the top cuts on the hot rail
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Well, as I said, it's all there on the Seymour Duncan website. From the sound of it, THIS ONE will do the trick. You can just leave off the tone control, but make sure you take the wire from the switch that goes to the tone pot to the volume control. These things are really simple, and work as blocks. If that one doesn't help you, look around - they've got just about everything there.


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thanx, i did find it on the seymour duncan website, but one thing i didt find was how to hook up two blackouts with one volume and a three way,
 
thenextbigthing said:
thanx, i did find it on the seymour duncan website, but one thing i didt find was how to hook up two blackouts with one volume and a three way,
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Exactly the same, except you need to hook up the red wires from the pickups to the battery, and the negative from the battery needs to go to the ring conductor on a stereo jack.



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