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    STK-S6 installation issues

    Good info. I'll see about recording my son. We've never used SSL-6 pickups, but these seem like a better SSL-5 which was the hope. I guess the idea of the stacked single-coil is that the bottom coil isn't as much involved with the signal since it's further away from the string, and is just...
  2. J

    STK-S6 installation issues

    Thanks! These pickups are terrific--my son loves the SSL-5 in all three positions in his hardtail Strat, but we were hoping for something noiseless that would still preserve the sonic DNA of the SSL-5 and work better with the flatter radius on this guitar. These STK-S6 pickups I wouldn't...
  3. J

    STK-S6 installation issues

    I got it working! White on each pickup is hot, and the red wire is for coil splitting (which I'm not using, so was able to just tape it off). I've updated the original post. Thanks for helping.
  4. J

    STK-S6 installation issues

    Oh, I get you... on these pickups we only have black, bare, red and white (and I see consistently suggestions to solder those together and just tape them off, the red and white). So there's no fifth wire to put in that GND slot next to the hot one. So with that four-wire arrangement (no green)...
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    STK-S6 installation issues

    Thank you. :) I'm still waiting to hear back from Obsidian. In the meantime I asked a couple of AI assistants for opinions, and one of them suggested putting the bare wire from all the pickups to the same ground connector (screw terminal at the end of the board). Are you saying that's what I...
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    STK-S6 installation issues

    Hello. I and my son are upgrading his Strat with STK-S6 pickups in all three positions, and have run into a wall. We're using an ObsidianWire integrated wiring harness...
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