Hi All,
I'm getting ready to make some changes to my Fender Modern Player Telecaster Plus, and though I think I've got the bulk of them sorted, I have a few concerns about pickup magnet polarity and the matchup of some pickups. I figured I'd throw them out there and see if anyone has any thoughts.
Basically, I'm planning to replace the stock bridge humbucker in the Tele with a bridge P-Rails using a Triple Shot mount, and I'm also going to replace the coil-split switch for the humbucker with an neck-on switch so that I can get the bridge and neck p/ups on at the same time. (The current wiring doesn't allow for that.) I've got all of the wiring sorted, I think, but I have a couple of concerns about matching the new pickup with the others correctly.
First, I know that Fender pickups are reverse polarity from SD pickups, so I think I need to swap the hot and ground wires from the Triple Shot to the switch/pot. Is that correct?
Second, while I know that with this setup I can pair the other two pickups with the P-Rails in all of its permutations, I'm most interested in pairing the neck Tele pickup with the P-Rails rail to get something approaching a traditional middle-switch Tele sound. (I know it won't be quite the same. That's okay.) I'm not sure which magnet in the P-Rails would be hum canceling with the neck Fender pickup as it comes from the SD factory. Does anyone know if it'd be the rail or the P-90, keeping in mind that the Fender neck pickup will be the reverse of a SD neck pickup? And if it's NOT the rail, is there a way to wire the P-Rails to the Triple Shot so that it IS the rail?
Third, if I'm wanting to get the rail as close to a bridge Tele sound as possible, does anyone have a recommendation about whether to install it normally or turn it around so that the rail is closer to the bridge than the P-90? And if I DID turn it around, does that affect the wiring or polarity?
Okay, I think that's it. Hopefully, somebody out there knows a bit more about these things than I do.
-GP
I'm getting ready to make some changes to my Fender Modern Player Telecaster Plus, and though I think I've got the bulk of them sorted, I have a few concerns about pickup magnet polarity and the matchup of some pickups. I figured I'd throw them out there and see if anyone has any thoughts.
Basically, I'm planning to replace the stock bridge humbucker in the Tele with a bridge P-Rails using a Triple Shot mount, and I'm also going to replace the coil-split switch for the humbucker with an neck-on switch so that I can get the bridge and neck p/ups on at the same time. (The current wiring doesn't allow for that.) I've got all of the wiring sorted, I think, but I have a couple of concerns about matching the new pickup with the others correctly.
First, I know that Fender pickups are reverse polarity from SD pickups, so I think I need to swap the hot and ground wires from the Triple Shot to the switch/pot. Is that correct?
Second, while I know that with this setup I can pair the other two pickups with the P-Rails in all of its permutations, I'm most interested in pairing the neck Tele pickup with the P-Rails rail to get something approaching a traditional middle-switch Tele sound. (I know it won't be quite the same. That's okay.) I'm not sure which magnet in the P-Rails would be hum canceling with the neck Fender pickup as it comes from the SD factory. Does anyone know if it'd be the rail or the P-90, keeping in mind that the Fender neck pickup will be the reverse of a SD neck pickup? And if it's NOT the rail, is there a way to wire the P-Rails to the Triple Shot so that it IS the rail?
Third, if I'm wanting to get the rail as close to a bridge Tele sound as possible, does anyone have a recommendation about whether to install it normally or turn it around so that the rail is closer to the bridge than the P-90? And if I DID turn it around, does that affect the wiring or polarity?
Okay, I think that's it. Hopefully, somebody out there knows a bit more about these things than I do.
-GP
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