How to get the most "Quack" on a H-H guitar?

[Reee]

what combinations of split/parallel coils yield the best "2 and 4 position strat quack" on a dual humbucker guitar? would it be neck screw and bridge slug, and neck slug and bridge screw?

[Mincer]

Personally, either the inside 2 coils or outside 2 coils, in parallel and humbucking (you might have to flip a magnet) give the best quack sound You need either a Megaswitch or Super Switch to pull this off.

[beaubrummels]

I think adding a phase option and having two volumes to mix would also increase the quack options.

[ArtieToo]

If you don't want to mess with a mag flip, (and reverse wiring), I always love the bridge slug with the neck screw. Works good, sounds great.

[Jack_TriPpEr]

*Some* amount of quack can be achieved by inner coils of humbuckers in parallel, but it will never be much compared to two single coils - either neck & middle, or middle & neck. Strong quack requires the close physical proximity that only a middle position pup can provide. I just went thru a project finding that out for myself, where i even had 2 bonafide singlecoils installed in a HH guitar and even then, the quack was only subtle. I also tried Half Out Of Phase wiring that is reported to add quack, but i found that the tone it added was more of an acoustic-like strum sound, not a quack.

[Clint 55]

Spin a splits can make a hum quack on its own. Plus different quack combos with the pups combined.

[beaubrummels]

*Some* amount of quack can be achieved by inner coils of humbuckers in parallel, but it will never be much compared to two single coils - either neck & middle, or middle & neck. Strong quack requires the close physical proximity that only a middle position pup can provide. I just went thru a project finding that out for myself, where i even had 2 bonafide singlecoils installed in a HH guitar and even then, the quack was only subtle. I also tried Half Out Of Phase wiring that is reported to add quack, but i found that the tone it added was more of an acoustic-like strum sound, not a quack.

I agree with this. It's like the Telecaster middle position.

[Mincer]

I agree with this. It's like the Telecaster middle position.

It works better with some pickups than others. But to me, it is 'close enough'.

[Demanic]

Wasn't there a wiring, either by Ibanez or PRS that did outside coils in parallel, inside coils in series?

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[Jack_TriPpEr]

Wasn't there a wiring, either by Ibanez or PRS that did outside coils in parallel, inside coils in series?

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Yep, that's one of the earliest PRS 5 way wirings. Stewmac hosts a diagram for that, setup specifically for a rotary pickup selector which is predominantly the format that PRS used that 5 way config in. See below.

https://www.stewmac.com/video-and-id...eed-smith.html

[Jack_TriPpEr]

It works better with some pickups than others. But to me, it is 'close enough'.

I thought so too with my recent project, until i brought home a Strat w a middle pup to compare Positions 2 and 4 against my SS guitar setup. I also asked my wife to be an objective listener. Even she said that the difference in quack factor was significant btw the two guitars. My SS was setup with a Dimarzio Area 67 in the neck and a Area 58 in the bridge. And I was only using the main coils of each Dimarzio pup (i.e. the smaller hum-canceling coil of each pup was not active). But maybe like you say i might have gotten more quack if the pickups were different.

[Jack_TriPpEr]

If you don't want to mess with a mag flip, (and reverse wiring), I always love the bridge slug with the neck screw. Works good, sounds great.

A few members report in this thread at The Gear Page forum that keeping the two coils that are being combined in parallel as NON-hum-canceling yields more quack vs. the two being hum-canceling. At least, for singlecoil type pups. I'm assuming that holds true for splitcoils of two humbuckers.

https://www.thegearpage.net/board/in...1597731/page-2

And, magnet flipping isn't the only option to achieve hum-canceling inner coils. Intead, one pup can be rotated 180 degrees and then you wire the coilsplit specifically for the two inner coils.

[Reee]

how about wiring the neck in parallel, would that get close to the "2" position on a strat (neck+middle)?

[Jack_TriPpEr]

how about wiring the neck in parallel, would that get close to the "2" position on a strat (neck+middle)?

Wiring a humbuckers' 2 coils in parallel has a "hollow" type sound to me... i don't hear "quack" in that configuration, personally.

To your original question, you will get some quack when you wire the two inner coils of an HH in parallel. I was just trying to make you aware that - per my experience - the amount of quack will be far less than when a middle position pup is present, like in a Strat's Positions 2 and 4. So split inner coils will yield the most quack that a HH guitar can provide, in my opinion.

[Reee]

Wiring a humbuckers' 2 coils in parallel has a "hollow" type sound to me... i don't hear "quack" in that configuration, personally.

To your original question, you will get some quack when you wire the two inner coils of an HH in parallel. I was just trying to make you aware that - per my experience - the amount of quack will be far less than when a middle position pup is present, like in a Strat's Positions 2 and 4. So split inner coils will yield the most quack that a HH guitar can provide, in my opinion.

allright, quack aside, would a neck in parallel come closest to the 2 position on a strat? the split inners does quack but seems to be a bit more like a tele, i'm looking for that polite, almost acoustic-y 2 position sound that i had on a Jackson DK2, it was a 24 fret guitar with duncan STK-1's in the neck and middle, that 2 position sounded glorious!

btw: is the STK1 strat pickup discontinued? shame because i really liked that one!