I've been having some fun modifying a cheap Squire Telecaster to improve its voice. Since the body is routed for a humbucker at the neck, I opted to go with a quarter pounder at the bridge and a model '59 in the Neck. I've tried a couple of configurations now and it seems like whenever I try to blend the two pick-ups, the '59 just overpowers the single coil and its almost all the neck pickup.
The first configuration I tried was a simple 3-way switch with 500k tone and volume pots. After leaving that for a couple of months I swapped the 3-way switch for a 4 way and tried splitting the '59 in parallel with the quarter pounder. It still sounds good, but in both configurations still feel like all I'm hearing is the neck pickup when trying to run the two in parallel. I really like how the QP sounds, and I want to hear more of it when blending the two pickups together.
Any suggestions on what to try next?
I do have some 250k pots and some dual 250/500k pots I could try instead, or change the capacitor between the pots, (I'm pretty sure it's a 0.047uF). I'm not against taking the L and trying a different humbucker in the neck either, I just really like that quarter pounder in the bridge
The first configuration I tried was a simple 3-way switch with 500k tone and volume pots. After leaving that for a couple of months I swapped the 3-way switch for a 4 way and tried splitting the '59 in parallel with the quarter pounder. It still sounds good, but in both configurations still feel like all I'm hearing is the neck pickup when trying to run the two in parallel. I really like how the QP sounds, and I want to hear more of it when blending the two pickups together.
Any suggestions on what to try next?
I do have some 250k pots and some dual 250/500k pots I could try instead, or change the capacitor between the pots, (I'm pretty sure it's a 0.047uF). I'm not against taking the L and trying a different humbucker in the neck either, I just really like that quarter pounder in the bridge
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