Unusual pickup combinations...

[gripweed]

Do any of you have unusual pickup combinations that work? Please share...

[Kac]

Re: Unusual pickup combinations...

Mine is kind of unusual...
HS configuration on a fender strat
Push/pull pot for pick-up selection, so you get the bridge Humbucker, or the neck single coil.
George Lynch also uses this configuration is some of his custom shop ESP's
Rock On

[Jester700]

Re: Unusual pickup combinations...

Do you mean the pickups themselves, or switching combinations?

[Boston Joe]

Re: Unusual pickup combinations...

On an old scalloped 70's Strat, I installed a Hot Rail in the bridge, a Dimarzio/Jem HS-2 in the middle and an HS-3 in the neck... The HS-2 is out of phase with the HS-3 resulting in a nice Brain May tone in the 4th position when using gain. The second position results in a punchy Dire Straits sound. The HS-2 is hooked up to a tone pot that 's used to turn off one of the coils for single coil mode (though I may change that and hook up the HS-3 instead) I intend to wire the Hot Rail in series/parallel.

On another old Strat, an HS-3 and HS-2 in the bridge and neck respectively is hooked up to a push/pull pot to split the coils. An old Squier single coil (large ceramic magent) is in the middle for some nice Tele/Strat tones.

And in an old Squier, a '74 Strat pickup in the bridge and a '79 pickup up in the neck with a Squier RWRP pickup in the middle--very unique but vintage tones (Beatles, Knopfler, Hendrix...)

Hope that helps.

[BigBazz]

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i have the duckbucker in my squier strat in the neck position but wired to the middle on the pickup selector, i can blend the neck pickup with the bridge pickup using the tone pot.

[jeremy]

Re: Unusual pickup combinations...

for a while i had a tele with a jb in the neck with a twang king in the bridge. it was a cool combo with the right amp, bridge for cleaner tones neck for a huge fat overdriven solo tone

[gripweed]

Re: Unusual pickup combinations...

Do you mean the pickups themselves, or switching combinations?

Well I guess I originally meant the pickups themselves but there ahve been some interesting switching ideas too. Post either.

[Artie]

Re: Unusual pickup combinations...

I don't have anything real unusual. Just my HSS Genny, wired with a push/pull to "tap" both QP's, and another to connect them in series. Then I swapped the neck and middle hot wires to the 5-way so I could get the traditional neck/bridge sound.

I thought that was an original idea, 'til I discovered it, yesterday, in Seymour's Q & A . . . #123.