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The Pickup Place / Re: Pots For Area 58, 61 Pro Track (2 Single, 1 Hum)?

« on: May 18, 2020, 02:40:38 AM »

Thanks everyone for the replies.

I would like to avoid using a super-switch where I can, because they seem to be hard to get a hold at the moment for a decent price.

DiMarzio claims this is all that needs to be done to wire up a HSS https://d2emr0qhzqfj88.cloudfront.net/s3fs-public/diagrams/1h2vv_4_0.pdf, but they have not listed the info required for the pots nor the cap. I suspect this must not be the optimal setup to get a good tone, as I cannot to find any other resources to suggest that this will work well.

The Areas usually work best with 250k pots, whereas DiMarzio recommends 500k with the Pro Track. What I would do is use a 500k volume pot and 250k tone pots. I would choose a wiring which adds a 560k or 470k resistor to ground for the switch positions except the bridge position alone so that the Pro Track sees 500k and all other positions see approx. 235k - 260k. I see whether I can find a diagram for this.

Cheers Stephan

Thanks Stephan. If you can find that diagram, that would be brilliant! 

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The Pickup Place / Pots For Area 58, 61 Pro Track (HSS)?

« on: May 14, 2020, 10:03:53 PM »

Hi Everyone,

I'm currently in the process of upgrading my Strat and I have picked up (pun intended) an Area 58, Area 61 and a Pro Track second hand.

I have been doing some digging around through the DiMarzio site and Guitar Electronics, but I cannot find a concise answer to what pots I should be using with the mixture and two single coils and a humbucker.

Has anyone had any experience wiring up a Strat with this combination of pickups, 2 tones, 1 vol and a 5 way switch?

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated 

Cheers,