S-S-S roadstar

[tekzilla]

I have an older ibanez roadstar (hardtail) with the classic strat style three single coil pickups where the bridge is angled and the middle pickup is faze reversed to give a humbucking effect on position 2 and 4.

The pickups sound like crap, they are muddy and the distorted sound I get out of it is like...muddy and flat. I dont really have any good adjectives for it but it sucks. Do I need to replace my pickups with stacked or mini humbuckers, or is there anything I can change with the wiring?

[JohnH]

It sounds like it is the same guitar that I did this with....

guitarnuts2.proboards45.com/index.cgi?board=schem&action=display&thread=1169252165&page=1

have a look at the photo to see if it is.

John

[tekzilla]

Yeah, seems like the same guitar, more than less.

But I dont understand all of what you did. Im still reading it.