Parallel vs. Split

[Chris_G]

Hey all,

I recently got myself a calibrated set of Mules and after a few false starts with the wiring I've had a thought about my options. Before, I had the guitar wired for parallel inner/outer coils in positions 2 + 4 on the 5-way. I'm now wondering whether split coils would be better...

In your experience, which sounds better? I do use these positions for clean/bluesy stuff but they don't play a huge part of my sound so it never bothered me that they didn't sound like true single coils.

Any ideas?

[Chris_G]

Nobody got an opinion / experience on this?

 

[WezV]

i generally find a humbucker in parallel much more pleasing than a split humbucker.  I you loose more than you gain with splits... you loose the hum cancelling and you loose a good sound for something that doesnt sound like a single coil anyway.. Parallel seems to keep more of the pickups original flavour, is still hum cancelling.. but still doesnt sound like a single coil

neither will ever sound like a true single coil ... not from a humbucekr built the conventional way anyway.

[gwEm]

i don't have any guitars with a split or parallel option at the moment - because i strongly prefer traditional series humbucker tone.

however... i have experimented with them alot in the past.

i found that i prefer the neck split, and the bridge in parallel if i'm going to do such things :)

[Chris_G]

Cheers guys, I think based on what I've read I'm going to stick with what I had before but I'm going to wire everything to a Megaswitch P for more options  :)