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Location: puerto vallarta, mexico | i am curious about something re the pickup switch on my ukII guitars. in the single pu position the correct pu works fine. in the both pu position, unless both volume knobs are at least at 1 1/2 or so neither pu will work. in other words if the bridge pu vol is set at 0 the neck vol knob does nothing and visa versa.
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Location: Scotland | Russ, I've never been a huge fan of 4-knob control layouts for this very reason. It's not a fault, as far as I can remember every guitar I've come accross with a vol/tone per P/U have been like this, except for maybe Gretsch & Rickenbacker which have an even more confusing system. |
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Location: puerto vallarta, mexico | thanks paul. for some reason when i look at the switch's contacts this doesn't make sense to me. do you have any idea why it happens? |
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Location: Scotland | Russ, it's because the circutry for each pickup isn't completely isolated and independant, so they interact. I much prefer a basic 2 knob master volume & tone. The idea originally behind a 4-knob set-up was that you can preset a rhythm & lead volume, kinda reduntant now with channel-switching amps. |
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Location: San Bernardino, California | You can rewire the controls so that doesn't happen. Just switch the center connection with the high side connection on both controls. It isolates the two controls when either is turned down. You don't have quite as good volume control (it tends to be all at one end), but it works. It's what Steinberger uses. |
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