Today I finished up another rewire of my teal EC29. The active Reflex pickups that were in it when I bought it failed a while ago and about a year back I put in a Kent Armstrong Motherbucker and cool rail to get it playable.
I've now swapped to active Seymour Duncans, a 'Blackouts Metal AHB-2' in the bridge position and a 'Blackouts Single AS-1' in the neck (well middle really) position.
As they're both switchable output pickups I made up my own quick connect leads so instead of just placing a jumper on the pickup I could switch the output from normal to hot easily. The multicore shielded cable I used was quite thick so I had to route out a little channel in the back of the battery compartment for it to have any chance of fitting. It was always stupidly tight anyway so this was kind of necessary before I started.
This, combined with a couple of busy weekends and general laziness meant it's taken me a couple of weeks to finish the job.
I used a Dimarzio double wafer switch and wired it up so I got the following options in order.
Bridge hot
Bridge
Bridge & Middle hot
Middle hot
Middle
I did think about just using a 3-way switch and push-pull pots to do the hot/not switching but fancied trying this.
Wired up like this means there's a clear progression in output as you use the switch from 'moderate single coil' to 'stupid high gain death'.
So far I'm quite happy with this and think it complements my other EC29 with the passive SSL-2/TB-4 Seymour Duncan setup well. It's all a bit metal but then so is this guitar.
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