They have a diagram to wire it up, but, in English: the 4p5t switch simply connects the pickup black wires directly to ground rather than through the dummy coil and lets the RWRP pickup do its thing. It also flips the phase of the dummy coil to cancel hum on the RWRP middle when selected....
Here is the diagram. The downside of using a commonly-available 4p5t as shown is you lose the tone pot switching, so since there is a common shared tone cap, all the lows get coupled between the two tone pots. That's the reason for me getting a 4p5t super switch and a regular 5-way switch, and swapping the second wafer onto the regular 5-way switch. The part of the circuit that switches the dummy coil operates on just two sections of the switch, so they can go on the "super" wafer contacts, and the standard 5-way part can be directly copied from the stock wiring, which switches the wire to the tone controls, giving (in mine) a bridge tone control and a neck/middle tone control (and both are active when the bridge+middle combo is selected). I really like that arrangement, as you can usually leave the neck/middle one dimed or nearly so, and then tweak the bridge one until the icepick softens....
Explain please
Had one of those on '95 or thereabouts.
How does that wiring work, like what do the controls do specifically that's different from the standard strat hookup?
Bridge has separate tone control, other tone pot handles the neck and middle. At no point are both tone controls active. Auto splits the bridge humbucker when in the bridge+middle position....Explain please
The best mods on a strat are the Eric Johnson tone mod (one tone for neck/middle and one for bridge) and the Dave Gilmour (switch to add the neck pick up to the selection). The best in fact the ONLY push pull worth buying is the CTS. These mods are both invisible if you use the push pull and both well worth doing . They also don't interfere with the standard function, loose or compromise anything.
I so wish there was a quality push-PUSH control, since I hate the ergonomics of push-pull knobs.
I’ve used Alpha push/push pots with good success.
Let me figure that out. It’s been a while since I bought any.
Well then.
These things work but they don't have anything like the durability. Also is the function you would be adding worth the added complication and potential failure at probably a very bad moment. The DG and EJ mods don't really change the basic functions and do doing worthwhile things to the table. For instance the four push pull LP wiring with series parallel and phase on everything is just garbage because most of the additional functions are significantly worse that the core sounds and what you could do with the vol and tone. In 99% of cases the best and most useful options are stock on the instrument.
True, but the alpha will get you by without too much weirdness.
The spindles come out of those pretty easily and the pot and switch part are very low grade. It works great until it doesn't . If the knobs is remotely tight on these when you try to take one off the whole centre comes out with it. They are both the same BTW. utter crap.
