Coil Cut grounding through a resistor

[wolf]

Well, I guess it has been a little while since I last posted here.
I wrote yet another web page and this one concerns coil cut by grounding out a humbucker's center wire through a resistor.
Here's the link: www.1728.org/guitar15.htm
Anyone agree / disagree?
(Notice that the web page already says that the folks here at GuitarNutz 2 have helped me with this circuit. So, feel free to just ignore this posting and I promise I will not remove the GuitarNutz 2 praise.)  LOL

Anyway, hello again folks!!!

[JohnH]

Hi Wolf, it's great to see you again!

Yes I think its a good idea too

It keeps a bit of extra thickness in the tone of a split Hb. Another one I like is to use a cap across one coil instead, such as 47 to 82 nF

[wolf]

Hi John,
Thanks for the quick reply.
I added your suggestion to the "Coil Cut Through Resistor" page.
Coil Cut Through Resistor
Since your suggestion uses a capacitor, wouldn't that produce more of a tone change than just the resistor?
A capacitor would pass more high frequencies to ground than a resistor and might not sound as bright as a regular coil cut?

[JohnH]

The capacitor bypass is actualy clearer and brighter than the resistor bypass. At high frequencies, the cap has a low impedance so it provides a direct path for the highs from the non-bypassed coil. At low frequencies, the cap has high imoedance, giving lows from both coils. The result is singls-coil highs and humbucker lows. In between, there are some interesting mid-frequency interactions.

It's my favorite way to split my bridge pick up

[reTrEaD]

And it goes without saying that you could use a SPST on-off-on switch to have two flavors of coil cut available in addition to the full HB.

You might choose any two from: Fully cut (short), Capacitor, or Resistor.

And you could use a DPDT on-on-on if you wanted to have the full HB in a switch position other than center.

[wolf]

JohnH

reTrEaD

I followed your suggestions and updated that web page.

 
www.1728.org/guitar15.htm