Introducing the HyperSwitch!

[Ashurbanipal]

Interesting for sure, and opens up the less than usual sounds in 2-3 hb guitars. Presumably, for it to be working, you have to be connected to the app, so maybe more useful in a studio situation.

[Mincer]

Interesting for sure, and opens up the less than usual sounds in 2-3 hb guitars. Presumably, for it to be working, you have to be connected to the app, so maybe more useful in a studio situation.

You don't have to be connected to the app for it to work. You need to be connected to send settings to the switch, but once it is set, you can leave the phone at home.

[Ashurbanipal]

Ok, that makes more sense, and surely something that would've come up when they were hashing out the design.

[ArtieToo]

As much as I love this kind of technology, I see one major flaw: You can't put coils in parallel. (Of one pickup.) That would be a no-go for me. Humbuckers, and Lil series pickups, in parallel, is one of my favorite sounds. I can't believe they didn't provide for that.

Edit: You can put them in parallel out-of-phase, but that's not useful to me.

[TVFV]

As much as I love this kind of technology, I see one major flaw: You can't put coils in parallel. (Of one pickup.) That would be a no-go for me. Humbuckers, and Lil series pickups, in parallel, is one of my favorite sounds. I can't believe they didn't provide for that.

Edit: You can put them in parallel out-of-phase, but that's not useful to me.

Considering how some of SD's pickups are designed to be wired in parallel it seems like a big oversight. Maybe that will be included in a future update.

[Mincer]

As much as I love this kind of technology, I see one major flaw: You can't put coils in parallel. (Of one pickup.) That would be a no-go for me. Humbuckers, and Lil series pickups, in parallel, is one of my favorite sounds. I can't believe they didn't provide for that.

Edit: You can put them in parallel out-of-phase, but that's not useful to me.

But you can. Check out the instructions on page 3.

[TVFV]

But you can. Check out the instructions on page 3.

Is that what they meant by parallel out of phase?

[Mincer]

Is that what they meant by parallel out of phase?

Yup.

[TVFV]

Yup.

I didn't know the coils were OOP when they were in parallel.

[Mincer]

They aren't. In parallel, the coils are connected differently in series...maybe i didn't understand your question.

[TVFV]

They aren't. In parallel, the coils are connected differently in series...maybe i didn't understand your question.

You're fine. I just don't why they just didn't say parallel. The OOP part just adds confusion IMO.

[ArtieToo]

But you can. Check out the instructions on page 3.

Sorry Dave. I don't mean to argue with you, but look at the wiring instructions. (It's a separate PDF.) Red & white are tied together. That makes it impossible for the pup to be in "normal" parallel. They can ground red/white, then connect black & white together for "hot." Or vice-versa. They can't make red hot and white ground.

That's why page 3 calls it "parallel out-of-phase", which just isn't a useful sound. The two coils are so close together, you get almost total cancellation. It will sound terrible. IMHO.

[larryguitar]

I'm all for technology, but just NOT in a guitar; I don't want to use an app to set up my guitar, sorry. If this had some type of manual switch I'd be very interested, but I'm not @#%$ing around with an app when I want to play...

Larry

[Mincer]

I'm all for technology, but just NOT in a guitar; I don't want to use an app to set up my guitar, sorry. If this had some type of manual switch I'd be very interested, but I'm not @#%$ing around with an app when I want to play...

Larry

You don't have to. You set the switch up once, and never have to access the app again.

[eclecticsynergy]

My beef is needing batteries in a guitar with passive pickups. Great for chronic tinkerers.
But, like Top-L, I'd use a Superswitch once I found the configurations I wanted.