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Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: octavio_amzer on November 08, 2007, 05:52:24 PM

Title: Having trouble with sound options
Post by: octavio_amzer on November 08, 2007, 05:52:24 PM

Shamray is doing me 2 guitars and they give you the option of any pickup and "push/pull pots"

so I already choosed them with 4 conductor for more sound options.

the pickups are

guitar 1: "Abraxas neck" and "nailbomb bridge"
guitar 2: "Cold Sweat neck" and "painkiller bridge"

now they say...

"you can coil/tap them or make them dual sound series/parallel"

I have NEVER tried BKPs with any other sound option. (I've always used 2 braided)

what do you recommend? both guitars have individual push/pull tone knobs

I want a CLEAN sound for the neck on both and I want a different tone option for the bridge on both.

help  :?

Title: Having trouble with sound options
Post by: Will on November 08, 2007, 05:55:45 PM

a push pull for coil taps, and a push pull for series / parallel?

Title: Having trouble with sound options
Post by: Philly Q on November 08, 2007, 05:57:39 PM

I'd go for series/parallel - gives you a brighter, lower-output sound but, unlike coil-splitting, it's still hum-cancelling.

Coil-split humbuckers nearly always sound like bad impersonations of single-coils (IMO), but a humbucker in parallel is an interesting new tone in its own right.

Quote from: Will

a push pull for coil taps, and a push pull for series / parallel?

You can split 2 humbuckers at the same time with 1 push-pull pot, but for series/parallel you'd need a separate push-pull for each pickup.

Title: Having trouble with sound options
Post by: MDV on November 08, 2007, 06:14:31 PM

Definately go with the split for the cold sweat. Thats a nice sound!

Title: Having trouble with sound options
Post by: Philly Q on November 08, 2007, 06:17:04 PM

Hmm, divided opinions.  :lol:

If you get a couple of on/on/on mini-switches instead of push-pull pots, you can have series/split/parallel.  Best of all worlds(?)

Title: Having trouble with sound options
Post by: octavio_amzer on November 08, 2007, 06:40:00 PM

Quote from: Philly Q

Hmm, divided opinions.  :lol:

If you get a couple of on/on/on mini-switches instead of push-pull pots, you can have series/split/parallel.  Best of all worlds(?)

well... I have 2 individual tone pots for each pickup on both guitars

the guys at Shamray recommend me "series/parallel" because of the humbucking ability.

they say "go coil/split" if the BKPs pickups sound nice that way.

Abraxas and Cold Sweat sound nice coil splitted? Maybe I could make the neck pickups coil splitted and bridge Parallel/series

Title: Having trouble with sound options
Post by: Philly Q on November 08, 2007, 06:52:50 PM

Quote from: octavio_amzer

Abraxas and Cold Sweat sound nice coil splitted? Maybe I could make the neck pickups coil splitted and bridge Parallel/series

Can't comment on that, I'm afraid.  Nearly all my BKPs are wired as plain old series humbucking, except my Riff Raff which has a series/parallel switch (and sounds excellent!).

Title: Having trouble with sound options
Post by: WezV on November 08, 2007, 07:58:33 PM

Quote from: Philly Q

Hmm, divided opinions.  :lol:

If you get a couple of on/on/on mini-switches instead of push-pull pots, you can have series/split/parallel.  Best of all worlds(?)

thats my favorite for switch fans

Title: Having trouble with sound options
Post by: MDV on November 08, 2007, 08:29:48 PM

Quote from: Philly Q

Hmm, divided opinions.  :lol:

If you get a couple of on/on/on mini-switches instead of push-pull pots, you can have series/split/parallel.  Best of all worlds(?)

Yeah, I have a 4-pole 4-way and 2 push/pulls in a 2 hb guitar that give me splits on both pickups, out of phase on the neck and parralel bridge as well as the normal combos. Very do-able