Tom Anderson Vintage Voicing, for split hb's ?

[FireBros.]

Anybody know how to simulate or copy Tom Anderson's vintage voicing feature.
Here's a quote from their website


WHAT IS VINTAGE VOICING?

All Traditionally, guitars equipped with single coil pickups were equipped with 250K pots. A 250K pot will load a pickup so that the sound is softer on the higher frequencies, some might say sweeter. Because a single coil has lots of high end, this is a good thing.

Humbucking pickups have considerably less high frequency response because of several differences in their construction. A 500K pot is usually used so the maximum amount of high frequency is allowed to pass.

The problem arises when you combine the two styles of pickup on one guitar. Either the humbucking sounds are great and the single coils sounds are too bright, or the opposite happens. Vintage voicing is a passive circuit that is switched on and off automatically so that the single coil pickups think they are seeing a 250K pot while the humbucking is seeing a 500K pot. This way no compromise is made on either sound.

[ArtieToo]

From that description, I imagine that they use a 500k pot. Then, using the "other" side of the 5-way, switching a 500k resistor in parallel across the outer lugs of the volume pot, to simulate a 250k pot, when in the single-coil position.

[FireBros.]

Do you have a schematic, or something. I kind of confused about "the other side of the 5 way(switch)"

[ArtieToo]

I'll post one as soon as I get home from work. Basically, a 5-way switch has two "sides". Or, two independent wafers. For "ordinary" Strat wiring, you only need one side, leaving the other side for options.

I'll post a pic a bit later today.

[FireBros.]

I'll post one as soon as I get home from work. Basically, a 5-way switch has two "sides". Or, two independent wafers. For "ordinary" Strat wiring, you only need one side, leaving the other side for options.

I'll post a pic a bit later today.

Thanks