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vejiita

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favorite Pickup sounds/switching!?
« 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?

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Re: favorite Pickup sounds/switching!?
« Reply #1 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)

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Re: favorite Pickup sounds/switching!?
« Reply #2 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.
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Re: favorite Pickup sounds/switching!?
« Reply #3 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: 
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Re: favorite Pickup sounds/switching!?
« Reply #4 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.