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Post by 4real on Dec 12, 2010 2:02:44 GMT -5
In my meanderings I cam across this simple idea and a bit of a winner I think...and verified... From here... www.tdpri.com/forum/just-pickups/149708-push-pull-s1-style-humbucker.htmlWell, I thought I might post it here where I can find it again and share, I'm rather impressed... I wonder if there is a way to add the bridge into position 2 in the series mode perhaps in split to get a neck/bridge combo...is that a spare pole I see there on the P/P???
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Post by asmith on Dec 13, 2010 11:43:17 GMT -5
If you were willing to swap the standard five-way switch for a five-way superswitch, then you could have Bridge South in parallel with the Neck in position 2 of 'series mode.' Here's what I reckon is the schematic for that. . Basically you emulate the standard switch on three 'sections' of the superswitch and use the fourth to make sure the humbucker is either in series, or that North is grounded when not in use on Pos. 2. Three sections is the minimum usage by my figuring, because the middle lug on the standard switch has three positions in which it has an output. (If you connect the wires pre-switch-side for having the pickups in parallel, then you'll always just get neck+middle+bridge in parallel in either position 2, 3 and 4.) I have looked into how to switch on the full humbucker in parallel, or having either the full or split humbucker in series with the neck - attaching the neck's ground lug to one of the superswitch 'sections' seems to be the way forward, but then Bridge North's place in the circuit gets messy. However after a while this happened and it takes a while to clean up. EDIT: Oh, bugger, the tone controls mess things up don't they, middle bleeding into neck and vice versa. You'd have to do something with that. I don't know.
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Post by 4real on Dec 15, 2010 20:40:11 GMT -5
Thanks asmith...i thought the 'coolness' of the thing is that you get that single coil strat selection and with one simple push pull and the standard selector a range of series sounds with the HB...all with a pretty simple scheme... I actually do have a superswitch that I took out of my strat but am considering a bunch of schemes...I'm finding the middle alone to be a little too much like other sounds and would prefer a neck/bridge option...so perhaps the superswitch will return Anyone know of sound clips for a 'series' strat kind of thing?
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Post by lu peng2 on Jun 26, 2012 4:08:33 GMT -5
i did one with this drawing as base, tone pot 2 can now dial in the HB with P/P i get now in pos 1, 2 ,3 the single coli 1 of the HB parallel and in pos 4 and 5 from coli 1 to HB and in push i get coli 2 to HB variable this give additional a neck // bridge (coli shunt) and u can chose both coli in the HB alone and also mix it with others my favorite tone here is p/p pulled pos 4 neck midel serie and humbucker coli 2 alone! hot quack now, corrected drawing
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Post by 4real on Jun 26, 2012 18:08:22 GMT -5
Whoa...major bump of a thread... There are some great sounds in some of this, but int the end I went for the Mike richardson scheme with a variable spit control I worked out plus a phase switch... guitarnuts2.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=music&action=display&thread=5413The attraction or interest at the time was because i desired the N + B combos and the mid alone is not that useful to me. The MR thing puts things in perhaps a more logical order and more useful sounds...but, it requires a super-switch to pull it off and a fair bit of wiring compared to this...but definitely worth it. I think one of the key problems with HSS strats is that the HB can sound more powerful and so different to the other pups that it needs to be toned down generally so that is where the 'spin-select' really came into it's own. Mine also has a HOoP which can lighten up the darker series sounds. The all three pup variations can be really nice though...series can be a bit dark, but all three parallel is kind of neat... which again, this scheme can't do. ... Welcome to GN2 though...
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Post by reTrEaD on Jun 26, 2012 23:41:40 GMT -5
i did one with this drawing as base, tone pot 2 can now dial in the HB Hello, Lu. Can I call you Lu? Okay Lu it is then. Welcome to Guitarnutz2! That's an interesting twist you've added. Depending on the magnetic polarity of the Neck and Middle singles, you would get full hum-canceling with the Neck & Middle and with the Middle and Bridge (shunted to single coil with the pot) in the "normal" mode. You would also get full hum-canceling in the "pulled" mode when you have the Neck selected and the other coil is linked in by the pot. You've managed to do something quite interesting with one additional switch and re-purposing the second tone pot. I like it. I noticed you only have the first tone pot enabled in the 1 and 2 positions. I think I would have changed that to be enabled all the time. Anyway, nice first post. Hope to hear more from you.
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Post by lu peng2 on Jun 27, 2012 2:03:55 GMT -5
yea ur right, there is/was a bug in the drawing, my tone pot goes to the vol middle lug (out) (50s like) but I'm not happy how my Vol react! it cuts the vol dramatically, at 5 i hear my strings just from the guitar not from amp i will re-solder it to the Vol input and consider a treble bleed or leave it without! i like the way to use tone and vol to get my sweet point what i also want to test, is to turn the HB fiscally and compare the different quacks in pos 2 with different coli from the HB thanks for the welcome, since i start to solder around and test different wiring! this forum was my biggest source for ideas! and man I'm really guitarnuts, playing and soldering, it's like getting a new axe by touching the solder iron
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