Does series wiring increase the output of the neck pickup?
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A little more information...do you mean the neck pickup in series with another pickup? Or a series humbucker (the way it is normally wired) vs parallel?Administrator of the SDUGF
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With intact/normal coils and magnet(s) and unless one uses some dummy coil(s) lowering the volume, series wiring should systematically increase the output level, wether it's applied to coils or to pickups. :-)Duncan user since the 80's...
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Originally posted by Wayne27 View PostI meant to say does series wiring increase the output of all the pickups in a electric guitar or just one?Administrator of the SDUGF
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Originally posted by Wayne27 View Post
Would it only increase the output in certain pickup postions like 2 or 4 on a strat?Administrator of the SDUGF
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Originally posted by Wayne27 View Post
Would it only increase the output in certain pickup postions like 2 or 4 on a strat?
Let's share below the spectrum of a Strat played in chords direct to the board. Pickups were Duncan SSL1's in this case. The orange line is the spectrum of bridge and middle pickups in series. Blue lines are either the same pickups in parallel (upper pic), either the bridge pickup alone (bottom pic).
Got the picture? ;-)
Duncan user since the 80's...
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My 1982 Strat has a special 2 position switch (stock!!) from the factory that allows some series combinations. It is indeed louder, as you can see from frog's chart, but it is also super thick. It doesn't sound particularly Stratty, and it certainly doesn't sound like a humbucker. It is pretty thick as lower and middle frequencies are emphasized. I can't think offhand of a famous song that uses that sound.Administrator of the SDUGF
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on one of my main strats i have a antiquity ii jaguar set of pups, kinda like a flat pole surfer set. so each pup is like 6.5k or so, like a vintage strat. i have a switch to put the bridge and middle pups in series. i like it a lot for slide, but dont use it too much for anything else. as dave said, it doesnt sound like a humbucker. it sounds like two strat pups in parallel with more output, less top end and a big bump in the low mids. if you have hotter pups, then itll be even darker and thicker.
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I have a strat with switching options to make positions 2 and 4 operate in series or parallel. Similar to what Mincer and Jeremy said, there's higher output, a lot more girth in the lows and low mids. The "quack" associated with traditional notch tones is gone. There's a fatness that trends towards humbucker territory, but the spacing of the coils produces a sound unlike a humbucker. I use these series tones in the same way I would use a boost, for those times when I want a little more oomph.Duncan Pickups in currently in use: '59 (rewound to PATB-3)/'59, Custom/AP2H, Tapped QP set for Tele, Crazy 8/Cool Rails, Screamin' Demon/Stra-Bro 90, Custom 5/Phat Cat, SP90-1/SP90-2, SMB-5D
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