Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum

Forum Ringside => Tech => Topic started by: Jonesy on April 01, 2006, 08:18:47 PM

Title: Switching
Post by: Jonesy on April 01, 2006, 08:18:47 PM

Just wondering what the differences are between series and paralell switching?

Title: Switching
Post by: PhilKing on April 02, 2006, 12:45:58 AM

In series the coils of a humbucker combine to give you more signal and resistance (this is the normal sound), so for example a 9k pickup will have 2 coils of 4.5k.  If you wire these in parallel, they will drop the resistance to 2.25k and the sound will get brighter but a lot of the midrange will be cut (liek when you have the in-between settings on a strat).