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Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: AnnunakiMassacr on May 11, 2015, 12:56:56 PM

Title: Thinking of the Freeway switch for Warpigs?
Post by: AnnunakiMassacr on May 11, 2015, 12:56:56 PM

Well Jon at Feline has got my ESP Horizon, and he;s fitting them with Ceramic Warpigs. At the moment I'm looking at different ways to wire the guitar, and the Freeway switch has caught my eye. Do you think this would work with the Warpigs? It's mainly a metal guitar in Drop D. But I'm curious!

Title: Re: Thinking of the Freeway switch for Warpigs?
Post by: blue on May 11, 2015, 04:28:42 PM

of course it would work, and the warpigs sound very good when split, they have enough power that they produce nice beefy single coil sounds.  I'd say go for it!  you can always go back to a standard three way switch if you want

Title: Re: Thinking of the Freeway switch for Warpigs?
Post by: AnnunakiMassacr on May 11, 2015, 04:52:00 PM

It's just the investment in the switch and paying for it to be installed. Have you tried them split yourself?

Title: Re: Thinking of the Freeway switch for Warpigs?
Post by: FELINEGUITARS on May 11, 2015, 05:00:55 PM

We have the switches in stock and I have done this task a few times with good results.

As long as the pickups have a magnet reversed in one of them then it is easy enough

For me the only challenge is to be more careful when changing switch position than my old habits of slamming back and forth on a Les Paul toggle.

Ha ....Mike I have read a number of your posts on here and not made the connection that it was you.
Shows that screen names do hide our identities a bit.

Title: Re: Thinking of the Freeway switch for Warpigs?
Post by: blue on May 11, 2015, 05:20:54 PM

Yes, I have a set of Warpigs in a Patrick Eggle Berlin with coil splits on a push pull pot.  They sound very good split.  I haven't tried the freeway switch yet, but I have one here waiting to be installed

Title: Re: Thinking of the Freeway switch for Warpigs?
Post by: AnnunakiMassacr on May 11, 2015, 06:13:33 PM

Haha. Yeah I change my mind every week about what I want :P I went through a phase of GAS. But now just taming back, selling on guitars, and trying to be basic. I find I'm happier with a select few. And this actually wasn't my account to begin with.

And I'll have to have a think in that case, as I'm quite heavy handed with the toggle. Might be worth just going push/pull for coil splits.

Title: Re: Thinking of the Freeway switch for Warpigs?
Post by: AnnunakiMassacr on May 11, 2015, 06:15:06 PM

Which also reminds me, I sent an email to both emails from the site earlier on today. I'm in no rush. But I think we'll pass on the Freeway in that case. So it's basically everything else regarding the set-up and string gauge :)