Just reaching out for some advice. I'm replacing my three SD APS-2 Flat single coils in my '62 Reissue Strat (Alder body, rosewood/maple neck). It's a bit too warm/muddy at times. Having looked around I decided to go for the following:
Neck pickup - Cool Rails
Middle pickup - Vintage Rails
Bridge pickup - JB Jr
I'm going to refresh the wiring system too as it's a bit noisy. I had a few questions about that, and I know it comes down to personal musical preference, but I'm not familiar with rails pickups:
-Is it worth coil splitting the JB Jr (with the Vintage Rails in position 2 of the selector switch)?
-What wiring system would get the most out of this setup (or what would NOT work well)?
-Is having separate tone controls for Bridge and Neck/Middle actually pretty useful, do you find? (On my current guitar I have a "FAT-O-CASTER" switch, which gives various parallel/series options, so I'm used to have just one master tone.)
-The pot suggestion from SD is 250K, but another luthier online said customers preferred 500K for rails pickups. Again, personal preference but what would you start with?
-Finally, is my proposed setup "HSS" or "HHH" or something else?
Thanks all, have a good day.
Neck pickup - Cool Rails
Middle pickup - Vintage Rails
Bridge pickup - JB Jr
I'm going to refresh the wiring system too as it's a bit noisy. I had a few questions about that, and I know it comes down to personal musical preference, but I'm not familiar with rails pickups:
-Is it worth coil splitting the JB Jr (with the Vintage Rails in position 2 of the selector switch)?
-What wiring system would get the most out of this setup (or what would NOT work well)?
-Is having separate tone controls for Bridge and Neck/Middle actually pretty useful, do you find? (On my current guitar I have a "FAT-O-CASTER" switch, which gives various parallel/series options, so I'm used to have just one master tone.)
-The pot suggestion from SD is 250K, but another luthier online said customers preferred 500K for rails pickups. Again, personal preference but what would you start with?
-Finally, is my proposed setup "HSS" or "HHH" or something else?
Thanks all, have a good day.
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