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  • Hot bridge pickup, parallel in the neck?

    I'm looking to replace the stock pickups on my Les Paul copy, and since I mostly use the bridge pickup I was thinking about going a little experimental for the neck.
    My first thought was a Super Distortion in the bridge and a humbucker-sized P-90 in the neck, but I've got an idea now and I need to know if it's the good kind of crazy or the bad kind of crazy: putting a Seymour Duncan JB in the bridge (wired in series as traditional) and then another identical JB in the neck, wired in Parallel to quiet it down a bit.
    Will it still have too much output in the neck, even wired in parallel?
    Has anyone tried this, putting a bridge pickup in parallel in the neck?

  • #2
    Try doing that with a Distortion set.
    Anytime you wire a pickup parallel, you accentuate the highs and subdue the mids.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Demanic View Post
      Try doing that with a Distortion set.
      Anytime you wire a pickup parallel, you accentuate the highs and subdue the mids.
      That's good to know! Last thing I want to do on a JB is accentuate the highs. Sounds like a Super D might be the prime candidate for something like that

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      • #4
        I have a Schecter with a JB in the bridge that splits the pickup in position 4. It sounds great that way. And I can only imagine that it would sound good in the neck. But if you want to use an SD, more power to you.

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        • #5
          A JB in parallel is actually a great sound. If you decide to do this, let us know how it turns out.
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          • #6
            My Dean ML is like this with dual Super Distortions. That pickup is great in parallel.

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            • #7
              It will balance. Should be cool, report back!
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