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I received a "Green Magic" bridge humbucker. The tone seems reasonably balanced and it has some mids. I'm pretty happy with it. The resistance measures around 8.25 ~ 8.3k which is less than the published spec. Has anyone has compared the Greem Magic to other A2 humbuckers such as APH-1b...

The Push-pull switch assembly allows a jumper-shut to be placed on H4 to connect the 89 preamp output directly to the volume control. You appear to have H4 location empty which is correct. Perhaps you can check there is no metal object or manufacturing fault causing a short. Apart from that I...

No. There is no bridge tone on the standard diagram. Its a difficulty to get two tone controls together with auto-split. The simplest option is to have 1 master tone control.. Otherwise you need a 4-pole superswitch to get a wiring scheme with 2 tone controls for 3 pickups. Below is my...

I found the info about your S-500. There is something really unusual about this guitar. It has a "Q-tuning capacitor" to lower the resonant peak of the pickups. That is *sure* to be what is sucking the life out of your pickups. When using aftermarket pickups it *really* needs to be...

Re: How to wire a tele bridge (a la Brent Mason) with a strat middle pickup such that Here is an alternative scheme which you could consider. It only affects the tone when the bridge pickup is selected. Otherwise the function is the same as conventional strat wiring. The necessary wiring...

Re: Need help with wiring plz! Updated schematic to add an extra 510k load when the humbucker is split. If 510k makes the split sound too warm, it could be swapped for a 1 Meg resistor or omitted completely.

Re: Need help with wiring plz! Generally 250k pots are for single coils and 500k are for humbuckers. When combining both types of pickups some people will compromise and choose a 250k volume control, and 500k tone control. Otherwise where 3 controls are used, it could be 250k Master Volume...

Re: HSS and non-RWRP middle pup Whether you like to have a tone control for the 2nd position really depends on your usage and the specific pickup you are using. For most of them, it would make sense to use a 500k tone control shared with the bridge. I would try that first and see if you...

Re: HSH Strat wiring 2 volumes no tone 5-way lever switch Here's my suggestion which may be similar to what Alex had in mind.

Re: BMP-1 Modular Preamp = 3 Pickups passive AND active in one guitar I also drew up a HSH Auto-split version of this Active/Passive wiring. So the combinations are: 1. Bridge humbucker. 2. Bridge Split + Middle 3. Middle 4. Neck Split + Middle 5. Neck humbucker. They should all be...

Re: BMP-1 Modular Preamp = 3 Pickups passive AND active in one guitar Here is my suggestion for the 3 humbucker wiring. However this untested and not guaranteed to work! I have to say this is not my original idea, as it is based on ideas from lotti and Artietoo in this thread with some...

Has anyone used the EMG-SPC control with passive pickups? I was thinking of using it to buffer the output of Passive pickups and create the ability to dial-in some extra mids. Most likely I'd use it with the APH-1 Neck, and Custom 5 Bridge. My concern is the EMG-SPC is intended to be used...

Which one will be hotter and fatter sounding out of the TB-APH-1 Trembucker, and the Pearly gates Trembucker? In the old SD tone chart that I downloaded about 5 years ago, it used to say the Pearly Gates bridge humbucker had a hotter wind and lower resonant frequency, compared to the APH-1...

Does anyone know what happened to this thread https://forum.seymourduncan.com/showthread.php?316072-Treble-bleeds-should-be-a-standard-thing ?

Re: please help with custom wiring diagram I still think there may be an issue with the loading connected to the output jack. I am looking at the connection highlighted in orange below.