Help wanted - Epiphone Firebirds - modern wiring/switching

B45-12 · Post by **B45-12** » Fri May 28, 2004 5:33 pm

About a year ago I bought one of the Epiphone Firebird VII (Gibson) copies and have been fooling with it since. It has 3 small humbucker pickups and I've just realised I don't have a clue how they are wired/switch. With the old Gibson 3 pickups it used to be (switch up) Front pickup (switch middle) middle and rear pickups together (switch down (back pickup).

But this one has 3 vol knobs and one tone - however it is not just one pickup at a time but you seem to be able to turn on all 3 p/u using the vol knobs no matter where the toggle switch is??? leaves me wondering what the point of the toggle switch is??

Anyone have a good info or can point to a good net site ref?? The shop simply took the money, wrapped it in bubble wrap and sent me on my way - no handbook etc. Cannot see any info on the Epi site either.

Polar Bear · Post by **Polar Bear** » Fri May 28, 2004 8:06 pm

I'm fairly sure the one i tried earlier this year was wired jsut one at a time, perhaps yours has been fiddled with. Sounds like it all good though all three at once should sound quite good!

Richy11 · Post by **Richy11** » Sun May 30, 2004 8:42 pm

Polar Bear wrote:I'm fairly sure the one i tried earlier this year was wired jsut one at a time, perhaps yours has been fiddled with. Sounds like it all good though all three at once should sound quite good!

Yeah that would make for an interesting tone. I'd be interested to give that sort of thing a go at some point.

B45-12 · Post by **B45-12** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 6:33 am

Thanks for the thoughts folks - it's more a matter of figuring what's on/switch postions where when you do find soemthing interesting that you want to come back to later.