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Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: vejiita on January 14, 2009, 01:55:31 PM

Title: favorite Pickup sounds/switching!?
Post by: vejiita on January 14, 2009, 01:55:31 PM
On a two humbucker guitar.. besides the full neck/bridge sound in series.. what other sounds/switching do you guys use alot?
Title: Re: favorite Pickup sounds/switching!?
Post by: MDV on January 14, 2009, 02:04:47 PM
5 - bridge series
4 - bridge split
3- bridge neck parallel
2- neck split
1 - neck series
5+PP out - bridge paralel
1+PP out - Neck parralel out of phase

Thats the switching on my main guitar. My other 2 HB guitars are Ibanez RG standard format (forget what that is now, but its got splits and paralels in there somewhere, I just use bridge and neck on that one) and normal 3 way.

Also notable - my HSS guitars are all wired so that pos 4 is the two singles in series (one is RPRW, so that makes a really unique humbucker sound, and one isnt, so that makes a HUGE single tone (especially as its with uber trilogies)
Title: Re: favorite Pickup sounds/switching!?
Post by: Philly Q on January 14, 2009, 02:52:49 PM
I like a pair of humbuckers wired out of phase with each other, for that Peter Green-ish sound in the middle position.  My first decent guitar was a Hamer, and they used to do that wiring as standard (maybe still do, I don't know).

I also like a wiring with a 5-way superswitch to give the inner coils in parallel and outer coils in parallel (in positions 2 and 4).  So it gives some Strat- and Tele-like sounds but stays hum-cancelling in all positions, if everything's wired the right way round.
Title: Re: favorite Pickup sounds/switching!?
Post by: rohlfo on January 14, 2009, 11:40:34 PM
my latest experiments (since I'm not final on my decision yet) is having the bridge on more or less full, and just blending in a little neck pup to give the sound more low-end/body (I play 2nd guitar).
I specifically chose to have 3 volume controls, so that's 3 times as loud as normal, right!? :lol: 
Title: Re: favorite Pickup sounds/switching!?
Post by: bobthemerciful on January 15, 2009, 01:47:10 AM
5 - bridge series
4 - bridge split
3- bridge neck parallel
2- neck split
1 - neck series
5+PP out - bridge paralel
1+PP out - Neck parralel out of phase

Thats the switching on my main guitar.

And on my 7. Single coil-y sounds I only use for a few things really, mostly still use full bridge or neck for solos n' use the others for a bit more gentle clean stuff once in a blue moon.
Cleans are damn good on Warpigs I think, should probably use em more often.