New to me - 'bucker control pot with coil filters
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line6man
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That's stupid!
All it is is a coil split switch (Note that they are using the nomenclature incorrectly. Standard humbuckers are not tappable, though a single coil with a center tap winding can be used here, if desired.) that varies the impedance across one coil, as well as a LPF. You can do this yourself for under $30.
All it is is a coil split switch (Note that they are using the nomenclature incorrectly. Standard humbuckers are not tappable, though a single coil with a center tap winding can be used here, if desired.) that varies the impedance across one coil, as well as a LPF. You can do this yourself for under $30.
yeah i had that idea once but decided it would be weird. i wasn't sure how filtering one coil in series with another would actually sound. but it basically is tone control for one coil and an switch that shunts that tone control to give you the option to shunt the coil instead. the whole north south coil option is really unneeded and purely for the obsessive in making the most options possible presumably to confuse anyone using the thing.
i have seen similar mods where people use the tone control to shunt a coil on the humbucker, the impedance of the pot is so much greater than the pickup that you really only get a small rotation where it blends between single and humbucker mode and the rest of the range is the tone control (low pass filter) so at about 7 you more or less get the humbucker sound, at 1 you get the tone rolled off fat sound and at 10 you get split mode so it just gets brighter. no need for a push/pull. you might want to use 1-meg linear pots for this but 500k linear or audio taper seem to work fine. you could even add a filter option with a push/pull. it's the same effect without extra knobs because really what's the point it putting it in single mode and making it bright then rolling off the tone and fattening it up? but im not a big fan of weird wiring anymore. i think it's better to have strait forward pickup wiring and then you can play with filtering in the tone controls. doing weird things with pickups doesn't really do anything to make the tone better. could also use external inductors to brighten things up without so much loss in power and it can even give an almost acoustic quality if the inductance is fairly low.
i have seen similar mods where people use the tone control to shunt a coil on the humbucker, the impedance of the pot is so much greater than the pickup that you really only get a small rotation where it blends between single and humbucker mode and the rest of the range is the tone control (low pass filter) so at about 7 you more or less get the humbucker sound, at 1 you get the tone rolled off fat sound and at 10 you get split mode so it just gets brighter. no need for a push/pull. you might want to use 1-meg linear pots for this but 500k linear or audio taper seem to work fine. you could even add a filter option with a push/pull. it's the same effect without extra knobs because really what's the point it putting it in single mode and making it bright then rolling off the tone and fattening it up? but im not a big fan of weird wiring anymore. i think it's better to have strait forward pickup wiring and then you can play with filtering in the tone controls. doing weird things with pickups doesn't really do anything to make the tone better. could also use external inductors to brighten things up without so much loss in power and it can even give an almost acoustic quality if the inductance is fairly low.
