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Last Saturday the Classic Stack Plus neck and middle pickups arrived for my Warmoth build. I'm retooling it for use with the Worship band. I decided to move the Whole Lotta Humbucker from the neck to the bridge and I'm glad I did. It's got a lot of punch for a neck pickup but it still sounds sweet with 250K pots. If you like the '59 but want a little more, the WLH is the answer. The wiring is simple with 1 volume, 1 master tone / .022uf cap, and a 5-way blade switch. No splitting in 2 or 4. And honestly, there's no need to unless I had a Custom Custom in the bridge, then I'd consider splitting the bridge and middle in pos. 4.
The last time I had a set of Classic Stack Plus pickups they were in a Fender American Standard Strat but they didn't really shine there. Fender SCNs sounded much better in that guitar. However, the CS+ sounds incredible in this guitar. All the SRV, Hendrix, and quack I can muster from it. And then from the bridge pickup, it's a big, full sound. This guitar has wicked sustain naturally so you can imagine how the pickups add to that. I feel I've got a really solid all-around setup with this one.
Side note: The middle CS+ pickup needs to be wired with the black to hot and the white to ground. Even though the instructions and diagrams show white as hot, positions 2 and 4 will be out of phase if you wire it that way. There was a thread about this back in '06. I commented on that over the weekend. Apparently they are still being wired the same as they were then, at least mine was. Thankfully it's as easy as swapping the wires.
Warmoth Strat 2019 by Erik Hansen, on Flickr
The last time I had a set of Classic Stack Plus pickups they were in a Fender American Standard Strat but they didn't really shine there. Fender SCNs sounded much better in that guitar. However, the CS+ sounds incredible in this guitar. All the SRV, Hendrix, and quack I can muster from it. And then from the bridge pickup, it's a big, full sound. This guitar has wicked sustain naturally so you can imagine how the pickups add to that. I feel I've got a really solid all-around setup with this one.
Side note: The middle CS+ pickup needs to be wired with the black to hot and the white to ground. Even though the instructions and diagrams show white as hot, positions 2 and 4 will be out of phase if you wire it that way. There was a thread about this back in '06. I commented on that over the weekend. Apparently they are still being wired the same as they were then, at least mine was. Thankfully it's as easy as swapping the wires.
Warmoth Strat 2019 by Erik Hansen, on Flickr
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