Remora Diagrams
How To Wire the Remora Pressure Controller into your Telecaster
Remora can be used in different places in your guitar to achieve different effects.
The most basic implantation is to wire the Remora across the output jack. In this diagram one side connects to hot on the volume pot wiper and the other to ground on the pack of pot. The Remora can be wired in either direction.
You can also wire Remora to the input to the volume control instead of the wiper. In practice this has a couple of differences. wiring to the wiper changes the way the effect works with the volume control; lowering the volume control leads to more extinction when pressed. When wired to the volume input the effect is more consistent across the range of the volume pot.
Some of you may want to add a bypass switch to your wiring. Installing Remora may change the load on your pickups, and percieved taper of your volume pot, subtely altering your tone. Using a switch with Remora will allow you to take it out of the circuit when not in use, so any tone change is mitigated. Since most of you will want to avoid changeing your stock cavity cover, the diagram below uses a push pull pot on the tone pot as a bypass. Remora will be engaged in the up position
In the configuration below remora can also be used as a tone control. When the push pull is down the Remora functions as a volume control. In the down position th signal runs through a capacitor causeing treble to roll off while maintaining bass. I reccomend a pot value 0.047 to 0.1 µF depending on taste; use a larger value than you would normally choose for a tone cap. In this configuration there is no Bypass. You can wire to the input of the volume pot in this configuration as well.
In this configuration a push pull on the volume pot changes between volume and tone, while the tone pot is used as a bypass.
Another fun way to use remora is to wire it across the pickup switch. When you have your pickup selector set to neck or bridge, pressing down on remora will blend in a bit of the other pickup changeing the sound. Its a bit more subtle, but you can use it add a bit of modulation.
This diagram uses the Remora as a volume control when the tone pot is down, and pickup blend when tone pot is up. Thre is not bypass in this configuration
The pickup blend is even more interesting when you combine it with a phase switch. This diagram works similarly to the one above, but the volume pot push pull puts the pickups out of phase. In the middle position of your pickup selector you get the traditional out of phase sound. In either neck or birdge position, you be able to change the amount of phase cancelation. This gives you kind or manual phaser.
These hould get you started on how to wire the Remora in a get some cool functionality. Please feel free to experiment with different configuration and report back.