Hi All,
I'm working on modification of my super strat (Yamaha RGX 721D) to make it universal for recording purpose.
Pickguard has been added (swiming pool milled in the body) so I can check different pickup configuration.
The idea was to have 2 mini humbuckers and 3 real single coils. 1 switch to select pickups mode (HSH or SSS), 1 switch to select humbucker wireing (series/single/parallel) and 5 position switch for selecting combination of pickup.
Single coils has been made by local maker (5.4k / 5.9k / 6.3k) Each coil with 4 wires (additional 1.4k which I don't use now). I'm not sure about polarity, but it was made to have noise cancelation between bridge / neck and middle / neck (bridge and middle have the same polarity, neck has oposit).
For humbuckers I decided to buy hot rails and little 59.
Everything works fine except hot rails. It sounded great when I checked it alone connected directly to the socket, but when all pickups are assembled it started be very muddy, with more unpleasant bass and less top.
I tested it on the left and right side of the SC. In both position sound is similar (bad) but when hot rails is closer to the bridge it sound very tin if switched to single mode (I believe this is because polarity "conflict" with single coil on the right side?)
I read about negative impact of pickups assembled so close to each other, but also read about many examples where it works just fine.
I cut pickguard to move hot rails about 1 centymeter away from the single coil but it doesn't help.
For some reason little 59 sounds preaty good with single coil almost glued to it. Why hot rails doesn't sound good?
I read somewere that pickup with rails may not working with single coil. Is it make sense? That would be explenation why little 59 sounds good.
Any ideas? Should I check other pickup?
I'm working on modification of my super strat (Yamaha RGX 721D) to make it universal for recording purpose.
Pickguard has been added (swiming pool milled in the body) so I can check different pickup configuration.
The idea was to have 2 mini humbuckers and 3 real single coils. 1 switch to select pickups mode (HSH or SSS), 1 switch to select humbucker wireing (series/single/parallel) and 5 position switch for selecting combination of pickup.
Single coils has been made by local maker (5.4k / 5.9k / 6.3k) Each coil with 4 wires (additional 1.4k which I don't use now). I'm not sure about polarity, but it was made to have noise cancelation between bridge / neck and middle / neck (bridge and middle have the same polarity, neck has oposit).
For humbuckers I decided to buy hot rails and little 59.
Everything works fine except hot rails. It sounded great when I checked it alone connected directly to the socket, but when all pickups are assembled it started be very muddy, with more unpleasant bass and less top.
I tested it on the left and right side of the SC. In both position sound is similar (bad) but when hot rails is closer to the bridge it sound very tin if switched to single mode (I believe this is because polarity "conflict" with single coil on the right side?)
I read about negative impact of pickups assembled so close to each other, but also read about many examples where it works just fine.
I cut pickguard to move hot rails about 1 centymeter away from the single coil but it doesn't help.
For some reason little 59 sounds preaty good with single coil almost glued to it. Why hot rails doesn't sound good?
I read somewere that pickup with rails may not working with single coil. Is it make sense? That would be explenation why little 59 sounds good.
Any ideas? Should I check other pickup?
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