Gentlemen,
I recently took delivery of 2 P-rails and one classic stack plus from Wymore guitars (Thanks john!) for use in an HSH guitar, with one volume, one tbx tone, 2 mini switches and a 5-way switch. I basically combined a bunch of diagrams, from the P-rails one vol/one tone/3way switch 2 push/pull ( http://www.seymourduncan.com/support...ils_1v_1t_tspp ) as well as 3 classic stacks 5 way/vol/tone ( http://www.seymourduncan.com/support...stks4_1v_1t_5w ) and came up with my wiring. Additionally, I switched the positions on the 5 way switch and the neck and middle pickups so I could get something resembling the strat neck + middle as well as dual humbucker sounds.
So, what's the problem here, you ask? The middle pickups and bridge pickup work great; the P-rails in the bridge is cool, and as advertized switches pretty much as the diagram with the mini-switches describes. The neck pickup however is completely off the rails (pun har har!) The mini-switch config described as parallel sounds almost like a single coil, the single coil config sounds like a tinny, super-weak pickup, the series config sounds like a P-90, and so on, plus it hums in all mini-switch configurations. I've re-soldered all the connections, replaced the vol pot, etc, and nothing has turned the neck pickup into a winner. Anyone have any advice here? Frank? Thanks for reading on this far!
Jeff
I recently took delivery of 2 P-rails and one classic stack plus from Wymore guitars (Thanks john!) for use in an HSH guitar, with one volume, one tbx tone, 2 mini switches and a 5-way switch. I basically combined a bunch of diagrams, from the P-rails one vol/one tone/3way switch 2 push/pull ( http://www.seymourduncan.com/support...ils_1v_1t_tspp ) as well as 3 classic stacks 5 way/vol/tone ( http://www.seymourduncan.com/support...stks4_1v_1t_5w ) and came up with my wiring. Additionally, I switched the positions on the 5 way switch and the neck and middle pickups so I could get something resembling the strat neck + middle as well as dual humbucker sounds.
So, what's the problem here, you ask? The middle pickups and bridge pickup work great; the P-rails in the bridge is cool, and as advertized switches pretty much as the diagram with the mini-switches describes. The neck pickup however is completely off the rails (pun har har!) The mini-switch config described as parallel sounds almost like a single coil, the single coil config sounds like a tinny, super-weak pickup, the series config sounds like a P-90, and so on, plus it hums in all mini-switch configurations. I've re-soldered all the connections, replaced the vol pot, etc, and nothing has turned the neck pickup into a winner. Anyone have any advice here? Frank? Thanks for reading on this far!
Jeff
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