Strat Wiring Bridge Tone

With the bridge tone control prewired kit it is possible to control the tone of all three pickups. The bridge pickup cannot be controlled.

Typical standard fender stratocaster guitar wiring with master volume plus 1 neck tone control and one middle pickup tone control.

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Strat wiring bridge tone. Strat style guitar wiring diagram with three single coils 5 way lever switch 1 volume 2 tones. Heres a breja tone works 2 minutes to tone video. With the usual standard circuit the neck pickup is controlled with the first tone pickup and the middle pickup with the second tone pickup.

If you swap those 2 wires that will put the neck pup tone adjustment on the lower tone control. If you want the bridge pickup on the bottom tone control. In stock strat wiring both tone pots are configured as low pass filters and provide the typical treble cut feature but they each affect different switch positions.

Now run a jumper from the empty lug lug 1 to lug 3. St bridge tone control vintage prewired kit stratocaster. Naturally you can also use an additional switching device with this method.

In this video well go over how to add the bridge pickup of your strat to the bottom tone knob combining it with the middle pickup. On the 5 way switch follow the wires down to the tone pots now that should be lugs 2 and 3 on the 5 way. In contrast with the ptb system both tone controls function as master tone controls but one provides a treble cut and the other a bass cut.

If you want to control your bridge pickup using the front tone control along with the neck pickup simply connect the piece of wire one terminal further to the one labeled to neck tone and youre done. The effect is the same.