Equal volume positions on strat 5 way

[ourclarioncall]

I’ve seen a guitar somewhere sometime ago that had equal volume on every position on the 5 way of a strat . I thought that was quite interesting. And now that I think about it , I quite like the idea

How is it done ? Is the mod been covered on this forum previously?

[JohnH]

that seems quite normal rather than particularly clever. You'd expect that from most pickup sets, where the bridge PU is wound a bit hotter to compensate for less string vibration near the bridge, and with standard Strat wiring.

[ourclarioncall]

Dec 8, 2019 15:06:03 GMT -5 JohnH said:

that seems quite normal rather than particularly clever. You'd expect that from most pickup sets, where the bridge PU is wound a bit hotter to compensate for less string vibration near the bridge, and with standard Strat wiring.

Sorry , to be more specific, the 2 and 4 “out of phase “ positions being louder to match the 1 , 3 and 5

[JohnH]

Actually, the usual wiring at position 2 and 4 is in-phase, thought it's sometimes referred to otherwise. The sound is an averaging of the two pickups, which should leave about the same bass and high harmonics, but does result in some cancellation of mid frequencies due to different positions of each pickup along the string. So that may be heard as a volume reduction overall.

But I don't know of a simple way of 'compensating' for tbat, without messing with the tonal character or reducing the pickup single sounds, or without considerable complication involving active electronics.

[ourclarioncall]

Dec 8, 2019 16:28:59 GMT -5 JohnH said:

Actually, the usual wiring at position 2 and 4 is in-phase, thought it's sometimes referred to otherwise. The sound is an averaging of the two pickups, which should leave about the same bass and high harmonics, but does result in some cancellation of mid frequencies due to different positions of each pickup along the string. So that may be heard as a volume reduction overall.

But I don't know of a simple way of 'compensating' for tbat, without messing with the tonal character or reducing the pickup single sounds, or without considerable complication involving active electronics.

😉 gotcha. Hence the quotation marks

Interesting. So the volume hasn’t actually dropped, but some of the frequency’s have cancelled each other out or something ? I forgot how it works. It sounds a bit scooped, which makes it appear quieter ?

I wish I could remember the guitar that had this feature on it. Not sure what they did then, maybe gave a boost in volume