Fender Tbx Control Wiring Diagram

Here is the fender diagram.

Fender tbx control wiring diagram. Guitar wiring diagram with three single coils 5 way lever switch one standard tone for the neck pickup and one fender tbx tone control that controls the middle and bridge pickups. Though the 220k passive mod definately sucks tone from the guitar too. Wiring diagram for the modified tbx tone control and here s the wiring diagram of how it wires up. The red wire is the input for the tbx control and the green wire is a short jumper wire connecting pot a to pot b.

Strat wiring diagram with three single coils 5 way lever switch 1 volume 1 tbx tone control and the eric clapton mid boost circuit with mid boost control. From reading about the tbx tone pot i gathered it was a designed around the active mid boost circuit and the 82k resistor is tone sucking in a passive system hence me not following the fender diagram. The diagram shows you how to wire the tbx tone control on your strat. Click diagram image to open view full size version.

Typical fender american standard stratocaster wiring. I ve added a 1 meg resistor across the tone cap to reduce the popping sound that frequently occurs when going to or from the no load center position. There are more mods you can do to the tbx tone control such as using a second capacitor instead of a resistor to rewire the tbx control for more bass cut or wiring the second end of the resistor connected to pot a to the same lug as the capacitor on pot b instead of connecting it to ground for a more even and natural effect in passive guitars. Traditional wiring for the eric clapton signature stratocaster as well as other models that use the fender mid boost circuit.