Hh4 - Green Machine - Fralin Pickups

TELECASTER - HH4 - GREEN MACHINE - FRALIN PICKUPS

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FENDER FENDER POSITION 3

3-Way Pickup Selector

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FENDER FENDER Master Tone Control

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FENDER FENDER Master Volume Control

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FENDER FENDER FENDER FENDER Pushbutton Switch POSITION 2

You’ve heard of Peter Green? After replacing Eric Clapton in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, he formed the seminal blues band Fleetwood Mac (this was in 1967: pre- Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham). Green owned a 1959 sunburst Les Paul that had one of the pickups out of phase with the other. This may have been accidental; legend has it that one of the ACTIVE PICKUPS AND CONTROLS INDICATED IN ORANGE AND CONTROLS INDICATED ACTIVE PICKUPS pickups was incorrectly repaired.

In any case, the out-of-phase pickups lent the guitar a distinctive tone in the middle switch position. This is easy to

FENDER FENDER achieve with any dual-humbucker guitar, so after a little urging from a customer, we decided to document this wiring.

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FENDER FENDER FENDER FENDER There are a couple of different ways to reverse a pickup’s phase: you can reverse the current flow or the magnet orientation. Both sound the same, despite what you might read on the Internet. If you do it by reversing one pickup’s POSITION 1 magnet then you cannot toggle between the normal and out-of-phase settings. So we reverse the phase electrically so that in the middle switch position (both pickups on) you can toggle between normal (pushbutton “up”) and out-of-phase (pushbutton “down”) tones. Pushbutton Up Pushbutton Down Hey, a Tele’s not a Les Paul. And it doesn’t have two volume controls, so you can’t play with subtle changes to the phase POSITION 2 = IN PHASE POSITION 2 = OUT OF PHASE shift. But this wiring adds tonal versatility to a dual-humbucker Tele and that’s a good thing, right? We thought so.

TS 8 TON C ES 7 ACME GW 7

3 .047µF H

1 A

6 P

R E

E R

5 4 3 2

1 P

4 1 A

3 H

S 3

C E CTS ON

T N S T O 2 1

Bridge Pickup Drain Bridge Pickup Return Connect Bridge Pickup Series Link Together Bridge Pickup Hot

Neck Pickup Drain Neck Pickup Return Connect Neck Pickup Series Link Together Neck Pickup Hot

PUSHBUTTON USED IN VOLUME POSITION 1

TS 2 O C ON CTST NE

7 3 S 13 H

1 A

R 1 2 3 4 5 E 5 R

P 6

H 7

E C T N S T O 8 9

Bridge Pickup Drain Bridge Pickup Return Connect Bridge Pickup Series Link Together Bridge Pickup Hot

Neck Pickup Drain Neck Pickup Return Connect Neck Pickup Series Link Together Neck Pickup Hot

PUSHBUTTON USED IN TONE POSITION Build A Better Guitar Tone Shapers, Inc. 772-563-3103 NOTES www.toneshapers.com The color codes shown are Lindy Fralin’s. For both pickups, the red and green wires will be tied together and then taped off. The

DIP SWITCH SETTINGS junction of these wires shouldn't touch anything else. OFF ON OPTIONAL USE ANY/ALL DRAWN DATE TITLE The two bare wires must be connected to ground. They can be connected to the same switch lug as the neck pickup ground, or ® George Ellison 12/3/11 Telecaster they can be connected to the back of a pot. Be sure that none of the excess bare wire touches anything in the control cavity. The Green Machine easiest way to do this is to cover it with heat-shrink tubing. Fralin Color Code ASSY PN ADOC Button Up = In Phase TE-HH4 344 PAGE 1 of 1 © Tone Shapers, Inc. - All Rights Reserved