

Tiger Guitar Electronics and how they work: SCHEMATIC Again, The Tiger has two Dimarzio Super ll pickups and one Single coil Dimarzio SDS1 in the neck position. The humbucking pickups are wired with Black and White wires together in true single coil switching mode. There is a 5 way strat style pickup selection switch, two 3 way toggle switches for coil selection on the humbuckers (hum/canceling dual/single coil) configuration of the dual-coil pickup and one toggle to turn the effects loop on and off. There are two 500k tone pots one for each humbucker and one 25k volume pot. There are two output jacks, both are stereo type jacks. The mono cable uses a stereo jack so it will turn the battery off when you unplug the guitar. The mono cable runs straight to the Fender Twin. The stereo jack runs out of the guitar to the effects rack and then back into the guitar BEFORE the volume control.

Here is the important stuff . By running the effects loop from the guitar you are able to shape the sound of the effects with the tone controls of the guitar. In the effects loop is a Unity Gain Buffer. It is a little op amp that keeps the gain of the signal in the loop constant and makes the output of the guitar low impedance. The Buffer is always ON and seeing a signal no matter if the effects loop is on or off . You can get one from EMG www.emginc.com . The model number is JG1. (or now a JG-2) Since the loop is wired pre- volume, the effects are always seeing the same full output from the pickups. When your signal from your guitar is not going up and down with volume you know right where your effects levels are going to be. Most importantly this allows you to shape the tone of your effected signal with the tone controls of your guitar. When you daisy chain stomp boxes in between your guitar and your amp you are sucking a lot of tone away and when you kick in any effect it takes over your signal and you have no control over it. Try turning on a distortion pedal and switching your pickup selectors or turning your tone knobs, you see very little change in the sound. With the effects loop and unity gain buffer you have 5 different distortion tones and you can roll the tone off to get real cool horn like sounds. In this way, Garcia was seamlessly painting with an incredible number of varying tones that were controllable right from the guitar and one control foot switch.



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