Fat Strat wiring advice and schematic

[sstanfield]

I'm about to change the stock pickups on my MIM Strat to:
SSL-1 (neck), SSL-5 (middle), and Distortion humbucker (bridge). I'm not sure how I want to wire it. What would give me the best variety of tones? I thought about a coil split, then I read about parallel-wiring a humbucker with the coils out-of-phase. However, I haven't found a schematic for that.

Does anybody have advice/thoughts on what would be best?

I have a Traynor YCV 40 and I play blues and rock.

[sstanfield]

Re: Fat Strat wiring advice and schematic

I was hoping that someone would offer opinions or advice, but Seymour Duncan Tech Support sent my a diagram that looks good for the parallel wiring. I'll try it as soon as the rest of my parts come.

[Dom L]

Re: Fat Strat wiring advice and schematic

I would wire it up to a normal 5 way switch with the auto split in the bridge and mid position, This gives you standard tones with a strong humbucker tone in the bridge
The mid position should be a reverse wound reverse polarity pickup for hum cancelling in position 2 and 4
Here's a link to a diaram on the Duncan site

http://www.seymourduncan.com/website/support/schematics/hum_2sing_vol_2tone_-w-spl.html

Good Luck and welcome