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SteveFord

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Does anyone have any specific recommendations on a stereo to mono cord? I find that if I use the factory mono setting on my Lucille I lose a lot of the highs.

If I have to go two cables into a box I can do that if need be, too.

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Does anyone have any specific recommendations on a stereo to mono cord? I find that if I use the factory mono setting on my Lucille I lose a lot of the highs.

If I have to go two cables into a box I can do that if need be, too.

 

But, if your mono (lower) input is wired/working correctly, you shouldn't "lose" Anything! I'd get that, and the rest of the wiring

checked out, before you start buying adapters, or a stereo cord...unless you just "want" to do all that? [tongue][biggrin]

As I mentioned, in your "wiring problems" thread, the bottom input should work, with both pickups and the Varitone, flawlessly,

with any standard 1/4" guitar cord.

 

 

CB

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I've been going back and forth with an electrical engineer buddy of mine all morning and he's pretty sure that mine got wired up as is shown in the original Stereo/Varitone schematic, not the later one where one jack is mono like my first Lucille (and yours) is.

He's making up a cable so when I arrives I'll post a report on success or failure.

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I've been going back and forth with an electrical engineer buddy of mine all morning and he's pretty sure that mine got wired up as is shown in the original Stereo/Varitone schematic, not the later one where one jack is mono like my first Lucille (and yours) is.

He's making up a cable so when I arrives I'll post a report on success or failure.

 

 

Great, hope it works out. But, couldn't he just re-wire it, to current spec's? Or, maybe you don't want it "messed with?" [biggrin]

 

 

CB

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Does your Lucille have one stereo output?

 

If so, he is probably connecting the two hot leads together on the TRS 1/4" plug. I am not sure if your pickups were 180 out of phase as the original stereo ES. You can tell if the pickups are out of phase; when you select the middle position and the volume goes down a little. Adjusting the volume knob down a tad will increase the overall volume. Reversing the magnet on one pickup will also solve the drop in volume.

After 50 years, I finally decided to reverse the magnets for no volume drop...I don't use two amps anymore nor do I use a two separate channel amp.

 

 

As CB mentioned, if you have two outputs on your Lucille, you shouldn't have any loss of higher frequencies using the mono output.

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Two jacks... then this is the same as the Lucille I have...

 

If you use the jack closest to the strap button, it is like the usual mono guitar. The toggle switch selects the bridge, both bridge/neck, or neck pickups.

 

If you use both jacks with two amps, neck pickup goes to one amp and the bridge pickup goes to the other amp.

 

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The neck pickup does sound muffled to me, too. I have lowered the neck pickup quite low and raised the individual screws. This helped bring out more treble; but it's still muffled sounding and I resorted to increasing the treble on my amps or using the 2 or 3 settings on the varitone.

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