IMHO series + out of phase is the most useful.
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Yep, series + OOP is interesting. With TriSonic's, it can even give a very convincing Rickenbacker tone.
That said, if the series + OOP wiring involves Bridge+Mid or Mid+Neck, it works better IME/IMHO if the pickups are not too underwound and/or are different. The weakest and most similar they are, the thinnest the sound risks to be. That's why I've mounted a Beefier TriSonic in mid position of my Bison and modified the neck one (pulling off its metallic baseplate changed its inductance and Q factor for the best).
In my main Strat with strictly identical pickups, I've mitigated the OOP B+M and M+N options by adding resistors. This guitar is wired according to the Armstrong idea but with a push-pull instead of the pot, FWIW.
For people who use Quaterpounds or Schecter F500 like pickups, B+M or M+N OOP will work better because such pickups are beefy enough to avoid the thin sound mentioned above. IME/IMHO.Duncan user since the 80's...
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Originally posted by Blille View PostHow do you use the OOP? The volume drop was so significant when I’ve tried it that it was unusable for me.
I like the idea of using pickups with different output to avoid some volume drop.
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Originally posted by Blille View PostHow do you use the OOP? The volume drop was so significant when I’ve tried it that it was unusable for me.
I like the idea of using pickups with different output to avoid some volume drop.
With two pickups of exactly the same output at the same place but wired OOP, the output would be of exactly zero dB. It's not doable physically but the Line6 Variax Workbench allows to do that, if memory serves me (I've not used it for years but I vaguely remember to have noticed what I evoke and to have thought that it was totally making sense).
If a guitar has only one single volume pot, resistors can be used to mismatch the output levels of OOP pickups and make them louder/fuller sounding. As I said, that's what I have put in my main Strat. :-)Duncan user since the 80's...
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Originally posted by Blille View PostFor full info this is for a Bass VI kind of instrument. It’s cheap but the pickups to my surprise sound good. And I like the middle position best for bassy lines. I don’t like the parallel sounds but I thought that doing some wiring to get them in series would really help to give a more bass like tone when necessary.The things that you wanted
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Originally posted by Clint 55 View Post
He wants a bassier tone, not a thinner tone. :P
That said and to be clear, my rambling about OOP was more a way to think out loud than to reply to specific needs. I'm noisy sometimes. <:O)Duncan user since the 80's...
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Clint is right, for this one it’s not going to work, but I got other guitars that I was thinking of
I recently messed up a magnet switch in a HH so I had OOP sounds so I figured I could give it another try but it didn’t work for me. These tips make sense and are good.
For the Bass VI I’m set on adding the push pull for series.
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