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I know there was a thread here, seems like it was right before the 2nd time we 'lost time' - anyhow, it was a thread about removing/lifting the tone knob from the rhythm circuit and also wiring the pickup switches on the lead circuit to go into parallel when both are down instead of off.

Anyone have linkage handy or wiring diagrams?

I, too, want this mod.

Hoo-rah! Give us this mod!!!

Bump. Where's the mod at.

...aren't the pickups already in parallel when both switches are up anyway?

Having them go into series or out of phase when pointed down would be interesting...

Jagermeister wrote:...aren't the pickups already in parallel when both switches are up anyway?

Having them go into series or out of phase when pointed down would be interesting...

I think that's what it was.

Jagermeister wrote: Having them go into series or out of phase when pointed down would be interesting...

Yes this was the mod (series when both down, parellel when both up).

Someone on Harmony Central claimed to have wired his jag this way - I PMed him but never got a response. Any electronic-y people care to work out how it can be done?

As for the rhythm circuit mod, my idea was to buy another 1MEG volume roller and stick it in the tone pot in the ryhtm circuit - that way you'd have 1meg tone/voume, that whole circuit would actually be useable finally. then you could flick to lead circuit for bridge only or series loudness. seems obvious but way more useful than it is now.

aphasiac wrote:

Jagermeister wrote: Having them go into series or out of phase when pointed down would be interesting...

Yes this was the mod (series when both down, parellel when both up).

Someone on Harmony Central claimed to have wired his jag this way - I PMed him but never got a response. Any electronic-y people care to work out how it can be done?

As for the rhythm circuit mod, my idea was to buy another 1MEG volume roller and stick it in the tone pot in the ryhtm circuit - that way you'd have 1meg tone/voume, that whole circuit would actually be useable finally. then you could flick to lead circuit for bridge only or series loudness. seems obvious but way more useful than it is now.

What's his/her username? I'll try too, or at least search his post history to see what I can find.

Is this what you're looking for?

lamp wrote:Is this what you're looking for?

yup perfect, cheers!

Yes, that's totally what I remembered seeing. Now, anyone know the tone bypass for the rhythm circuit? It's easy, I think.

i wish i had a bunch of jags to try different mods out on.

Series wiring is a must. I would definitely use the Bass cut switch for that instead.

the bass cut switch is fun when used with fuzz pedals.

I'm not a fuzz guy. I am a thick chunky double single coil in series guy.

The bass switch is essential if you want to play any early Placebo song.

I don't see the point of losing it when you could just use the mod above - whats the point of the 'off-off' position? Its a waste of good switches.

Awesome! That's the mod I was looking for!

bubbles_horwitz wrote:i wish i had a bunch of jags to try different mods out on.

I have three jags. I'm gonna mod my black CIJ '62 RI to use the phase switch + series/parallel mod, have the bass cut on the top horn, and use the top horn roller pots as tone controls for each pickup alongside the pots in the lower plate to control separate pickup volume.

aphasiac wrote:The bass switch is essential if you want to play any early Placebo song.

There is no reason to ever want to do that.

The reason I would have it on the lower plate is because that is where the pickup switching is.

I spent the better half of the last five hours drawing out a wiring diagram that does the following:



I'll wire up what I've got and test it out. If it works, I'll post it if there's interest. Basically it takes the redundancy out of the Jaguar.

Edit: Both off should read Series, both on should read Parallel.

Excellent! Really hope this works out, I'd be 100% on board for re-wiring my Jag this way.