Post by CheshireCat on Aug 8, 2006 23:39:11 GMT -5
I'm working on some UUSS stuff, and I was wondering, does anyone ever play configurations using a full coil N humbucker and a split coil B humbucker?
IOW, we all use SSS, SSH, and HSH (assuming NMB), but does anyone use HSS?
I ask because I have the makings of a universal splitter with three positions - the aforementioned SSS, SSH, and HSH, and this being done without having to work two independent toggle switches for splitting the humbuckers.
Essentially, the idea is that you treat it like a double throw (DT), with SSS all the way to one side and HSH all the way to the other, being tantamount to doing a gang splitter for two humbuckers, built on a DPDT toggle switch (using one pole for each bucker). That way you can just wrench it to one side or the other without thinking about it.
However, if you find yourself shredding on SSH (a la Ibanez, Jackson, etc.) for long, extended periods of time, then you can just park the splitter in the middle, as opposed to having to remember to work two independent toggle switches for splitting.
Of course, this would all be for naught if HSS was an important splitting configuration to have, and instead of having four throws to ultimately worry about, it would just make more sense to have two independent toggles and just get on with it.
The only time I've ever seen what looks like a humbucker in the N position coupled with a single coil in the B position is on some older Tele variants, like some variants of the '72 Thinline, tho I don't know if that's a humbucker or just a staggered single coil in a humbucker housing (I think a rather idiosyncratic humbucker); that being coupled with the standard tele single coil in the bridge.
Do any of your guys have any insights on this?
Chesh
IOW, we all use SSS, SSH, and HSH (assuming NMB), but does anyone use HSS?
I ask because I have the makings of a universal splitter with three positions - the aforementioned SSS, SSH, and HSH, and this being done without having to work two independent toggle switches for splitting the humbuckers.
Essentially, the idea is that you treat it like a double throw (DT), with SSS all the way to one side and HSH all the way to the other, being tantamount to doing a gang splitter for two humbuckers, built on a DPDT toggle switch (using one pole for each bucker). That way you can just wrench it to one side or the other without thinking about it.
However, if you find yourself shredding on SSH (a la Ibanez, Jackson, etc.) for long, extended periods of time, then you can just park the splitter in the middle, as opposed to having to remember to work two independent toggle switches for splitting.
Of course, this would all be for naught if HSS was an important splitting configuration to have, and instead of having four throws to ultimately worry about, it would just make more sense to have two independent toggles and just get on with it.
The only time I've ever seen what looks like a humbucker in the N position coupled with a single coil in the B position is on some older Tele variants, like some variants of the '72 Thinline, tho I don't know if that's a humbucker or just a staggered single coil in a humbucker housing (I think a rather idiosyncratic humbucker); that being coupled with the standard tele single coil in the bridge.
Do any of your guys have any insights on this?
Chesh
