- #3 SINGLE COIL VS HUMBUCKER HOW TO#
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So I thought that to do that I would need to go to a single volume and single tone control like in a Tele, and use one of the holes for the removed tone pot to put the 3-way splitter switch in.
#3 SINGLE COIL VS HUMBUCKER SERIES#
It hit me that if you were to think of the middle pickup and bridge pickup as the two coils of a big humbucker, and put those on a 3-way splitter for either pickup or both in series and thought of that 3-way splitter as your new bridge, you could simply put a 4-way switch for a Tele into a Strat and be done.
#3 SINGLE COIL VS HUMBUCKER HOW TO#
I was thinking about how to manage doing that to my Strat so I could get the neck and middle in series or the middle and bridge in series and still retain all the stock pickup selections. I have two teles, both with 4-way switches to get the neck and bridge on in series. I put a 4-speed tranny and 3-speed rear end in my Strat. Once you change the phase of one of the pickups, you end up decreasing the output, because of the huge notch that is created. (I only stumbled across this one when a forum member sent me an old schematic from PRS.) That equates to three coils in series, with one out of phase.
#3 SINGLE COIL VS HUMBUCKER FULL#
Gibson stopped them from doing that, so later versions yielded one full humbucker in series with one of the coils of the other humbucker, and that coil was out of phase. Older PRS rotary guitars had one position that was both, full humbuckers in series, with one out of phase (the so-called power-out-of-phase position). However, if one or two of the pickups were out of phase with the others, that would be a different story. It won't blow up, or anything like that, but the sound would probably be too muddy to be useful. Putting three or four single coils in series? If they are all in phase, the output might be too much for an amp to handle. (Jon Silberman's Tele is outfitted this way.) The two pickups are so far apart that you won't get the same sound as a humbucker, but you would get the same output. Rarely do you see two single coil pickups right next to each other, but that is, essentially, what a humbucker is.Ī lot of folks fit their Telecasters with a four-way switch, where one of the positions yields the two pickups in series. You may not get exactly the same tone you'd get out of a humbucker, but a great deal of the difference would be a result of the positioning of the two single coils. A lot depends upon the output of the individual pickups, but you'll be right in the ballpark. Two single coils can give you very close to the output of a standard humbucker. (Wiring them in parallel also yields a hum cancelling sound.) A normal humbucker is really little more than two single coils in series, with both coils RWRP with respect to each other.
If the two single coils were RWRP with respect to each other, wiring them in series would yield a hum cancelling sound.
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