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Originally Posted by djpharoah
I kinda want to keep the 5 way switch and its 5 "modes" so basically just need to replace the tone knob with a second volume for the bridge pickup, turning the first volume to a volume for the neck.
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unfortunately, it's not quite that simple.
a generic two-humbucker, two-volume setup is easy--look for Les Paul or SG diagrams. the basic idea is that the pickup hot wire goes to the volume pot first, then the volume pot output goes to the selector switch, which on Gibsons is usually a 3-way.
but with all the cool different coil combinations in the Ibanez "special" 5-way switch, things are more complicated. there's not just one hot wire coming from each pickup; different wires are hot in different switch positions, and sometimes more than one wire from the same humbucker is hot [like in the neck-in-parallel position]. and you can't wire all those possible hot pickup wires through separate volume controls or you'd need like half-a-dozen knobs.
it _might_ be possible to do this with a 24-pole superswitch and a custom scheme of ganged outputs--all the hot outputs from the bridge pickup going out of the switch on one common wire and all the hot outputs from the neck pickup going out on another, so that those all-bridge and all-neck wires could go to the bridge volume pot and neck volume pot, respectively. but that might take more switching than that switch will do--i don't know, but i'm starting to get curious if it's possible.
the half-assed option would be to wire one hot wire from each pickup into the volume knobs and leave the other hot wires on the switch. that would mean some of your 5-way switch positions would be controled by the volume knobs, like #1 full neck humbucker and #5 full bridge humbucker, but some of the other switch positions would not be controled by volume knobs at all.
the functional but limited option would be to ditch the 5-way and use a 3-way wired up like a Les Paul. but then you'd lose al lthose cool 5-way coil combinations.