If I put three humbucking pickups in a guitar, with each coil having it's own volume control, how can I keep the greatest amount of independence between them? I've looked at Brian May's wiring, and the offshoots and mods:
http://treblebooster.com/brian_may_pickup_mod.htm
I don't see any reason to change the phase of a coil - I think having 3 North and 3 South coils may be sufficient... :laughing3:
But I will have three north coils alternating with three south coils -
V1 - North coil, neck PU
V2 - South coil, neck PU
V3 - North coil, middle PU
V4 - South coil, middle PU
V5 - North coil, bridge PU
V6 - South coil, bridge PU
So if I turn up V1 and V2, I have a "normal" humbucking. But I want to make a wide humbucking with V1 and V4, and a really wide one with V1 and V6. What I don't want is all the pots engaged in the circuit all the time, so do I still need on-off switches to bypass them, or will the (Un-Brian May-like) parallel wiring take care of that?
BTW, this guitar is specifically being made to do these experiments, I'm mounting the "pickguard" on threaded inserts and I may make 5 or 6 different ones for different pickup configurations. And as I am making them symmetrical, I can use each one forward, backwards, upside-down and backwards-upside-down. :icon_scratch:
:icon_thumright:
I get really tired of reading so-and-so saying "the Rio Grande single coil has increased highs and with the angled position, the treble blah-blah-blah and the 10% overwind increases the midrange and the girls will boink you like alleycats" and you know damned well he hasn't ever tried the comparisons needed to make the claims. With no baselines, claims are meaningless.
And I already KNOW how to make a guitar sound normal, ordinary, regular, average.... :evil4:
http://treblebooster.com/brian_may_pickup_mod.htm
I don't see any reason to change the phase of a coil - I think having 3 North and 3 South coils may be sufficient... :laughing3:
But I will have three north coils alternating with three south coils -
V1 - North coil, neck PU
V2 - South coil, neck PU
V3 - North coil, middle PU
V4 - South coil, middle PU
V5 - North coil, bridge PU
V6 - South coil, bridge PU
So if I turn up V1 and V2, I have a "normal" humbucking. But I want to make a wide humbucking with V1 and V4, and a really wide one with V1 and V6. What I don't want is all the pots engaged in the circuit all the time, so do I still need on-off switches to bypass them, or will the (Un-Brian May-like) parallel wiring take care of that?
BTW, this guitar is specifically being made to do these experiments, I'm mounting the "pickguard" on threaded inserts and I may make 5 or 6 different ones for different pickup configurations. And as I am making them symmetrical, I can use each one forward, backwards, upside-down and backwards-upside-down. :icon_scratch:
:icon_thumright:I get really tired of reading so-and-so saying "the Rio Grande single coil has increased highs and with the angled position, the treble blah-blah-blah and the 10% overwind increases the midrange and the girls will boink you like alleycats" and you know damned well he hasn't ever tried the comparisons needed to make the claims. With no baselines, claims are meaningless.
And I already KNOW how to make a guitar sound normal, ordinary, regular, average.... :evil4:
