[DBDbadreligion]

hey guys,

i am really getting into re-wiring my guitars different ways and i was wondering if i could turn the tone pot on my rg7620 into a volume, i got this idea because
i was today after skool i ran up to guitar center, and i saw a schecter C7- Hellraiser. i had never played one before so i tried it and i LOVED it. the reason i liked it so much was that it has 2 volumes. and when i played i turned the neck volume down and i turned the bridge all the way up. i would play with the bridge( a heavy riff) then switch to the neck and have a cleaner sound for little clean fills in a song or something. it sounded cool. i just want my rg7620 to be like that.

sorry if this is a pointless thread but can someone reply to it?
this is the only wiring diagram i could find that could be even close to what im looking for. http://www.seymourduncan.com/support.../2h_2v_3w.html

idk if it will work though on the weird wiring of a rg7620

well thanks,

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nick

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[DBDbadreligion]

ne body?

[Mastodon]

You could do what I plan on doing, buy concentric pots.

http://www.warmoth.com/hardware/part...=include_knobs

Basically the layout of a les paul but the knobs and pots are stacked on top of each other.

[DBDbadreligion]

i thought about that but still how would the wiring work?

[Pablo]

It's dreadfully simple: just wire each PU to its own volume pot and go from there to the switch. Just look at a basic Les Paul wiring, and you'll know what to do.

Cheers

Eske

[DBDbadreligion]

could i just connect the pickup selector to one pot and send a wire from the second prong of that pot to the other pot so both pickups use the pup selector?

ok i tried my idea, and what i did was on the pup selector for the bridge pup there is a black wire and a white wire soldered together. i used the black one and attached it to the existing tone pot( the pot im turning into a volume). took the capacitor off soldered the pin down to make it a volume and it didnt work. it still sort of acted as a tone pot. and it was like the bridge pup coundt play if the original volume wasnt on. now i wired it back to the original and i accidently broke the tone pots capacitor. so can someone give me a ood wiring diagram for 2 humbuckers and 2 volumes w/ rg7620 wiring? ive loojked at the les paul style ones and it doesnt make sense to me. trying to convert it from 3 way to the rg7620's 5 way selector. so can someone please give me a good diagram or explain the propper way to wire it.

thanks alot

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nick

[metalfiend666]

I don't think it's possible to have 5 way wiring with 2 volumes. When I tried that with my RG7321 I wired it with a 3 way switch, but both pots were push/pull's wired to split the coils of their respective pickup when pulled. I think that's your best bet.

I used this diagram: http://www.dimarzio.com/media/diagrams/4Conductor.pdf That will work if you've still got the stock Dimarzio's or aftermarket Dimarzio's. You'll have to find out the colour codes for other brands though.

[DBDbadreligion]

ok i think your way is my best bet. thanks.

is there anyway to make my 5 way act as a 3 way?

[scott from _actual time_]

Originally Posted by metalfiend666

I don't think it's possible to have 5 way wiring with 2 volumes.

it is possible to a degree, but you're absolutely right that it's not going to be perfect. with the 7620 wiring combinations, there would be switch positions where the volume knobs would have to be bypassed. the 3-way wiring, as you note, is dead easy to set up with separate volume knobs.

and, DBD, you don't necessarily need to keep the tone controls if you don't want to. i rewired my Dean EVO7 with two volume knobs and no tone knobs. removing the tone knobs always gives a little bit more high end. my EVO7 ended up sounding a little bit shrill without them, so i wired in a resistor & capacitor pair that acted the same as a tone knob turned all the way up.

but there is no way to convert the weird 5-way switch in the 7620 to a 3-way. you'd need to buy a blade-style 3-way, but they are pretty common.

[DBDbadreligion]

Originally Posted by scott from _actual time_

it is possible to a degree, but you're absolutely right that it's not going to be perfect. with the 7620 wiring combinations, there would be switch positions where the volume knobs would have to be bypassed. the 3-way wiring, as you note, is dead easy to set up with separate volume knobs.

and, DBD, you don't necessarily need to keep the tone controls if you don't want to. i rewired my Dean EVO7 with two volume knobs and no tone knobs. removing the tone knobs always gives a little bit more high end. my EVO7 ended up sounding a little bit shrill without them, so i wired in a resistor & capacitor pair that acted the same as a tone knob turned all the way up.

but there is no way to convert the weird 5-way switch in the 7620 to a 3-way. you'd need to buy a blade-style 3-way, but they are pretty common.

yeah it really sucks cause i went back to guitar center and they didnt have any pup selectors. thats pretty poor. so how would i go about wiring my rg7620 as it is w/ the 5 way and everything but turning the tone into a volume?