Recent content by ThomasP

Hello everybody, When pairing two pickups in parralel, would you use two high output pickups, one high and one vintage or two vintage output pickups? And do you prefer having two identical EQ pickups or two different tone like one focusing on the mids and the other bass and treble ? I wonder...

Hello everybody, If I put a Seymour Duncan humbucker in parallel with a Seymour Duncan single coil (middle position of 3 way switch), does the single coil need to be RWRP to cancel 60-cycle hum? Thanks

Hello everybody, I have a question about how to wire a second volume pot just for the neck pickup, using a 5 way switch on a SSS strat style wired guitar. My guitar is wired this way : Bridge and middle single coils pickups are classic wired to the 5-way switch, who's wired to a volume pot...

Hello everybody, I know there is some information available on the Seymour Duncan website about polarity and mixing Fender and SD pickups but I'm very confused, here is my problem/project : I managed ton put a "fender telecaster texas special custom shop bridge pickup" in the bridge position...

Hello everybody, I have a ssl-52 and I am wondering... will it be used at its full potential in the neck positon? Because its a "dark" position (compared to the brightness of the bridge position) and since it use alnico 2 for the high strings, will it be too dark on the neck position ? For now...

Hello everybody, I reproduced this diagram on my guitar and it's not working, there is no sound at all. Should the switch wire be connected to the "in" of the tone pot and then it goes from the "out" of the tone pot to the "in" of the volume pot? Thank you, Thomas

Hello everybody, I recently bought a 3P4T rotary switch for switching pickups and can't figure out how this thing work. I try to find information on the internet but I still can't understand. So there is 3 poles with 4 ways connected to it but why is there 4 position on the switch if there is...

Hello everybody, I installed a quarter pound in the neck and a jb junior in the bridge of my squier paranormal super-sonic and the fun thing about this guitar is that I can blend the volume of the two pickups on the middle position of the 3 way switch. My problem is : when I roll back the...

Hello, My question is kind of pickup related: I have installed a single coil pickup in a humbucker slot, it fit but I have a question: will it mess with the acoustic of the guitar and the pickguard because of the gap created by the single coil instead of the humbucker? Does the pickguard in...

Hello everybody, I have this telecaster texas special neck pickup that I want to install on a fretless guitar ... There is 3 wire : the yellow, black and white one. I don't know who is going where and I'm going mad. I think I tried every combinaisons but there is always something wrong (no or...

Hello everybody I was wondering how to pair differents pickups in parralel for the 7 sound strat mod. There would be a hot for strat or a quarter pound in the bridge position and for sure a duckbucker wired in parralel in the middle position. In the neck position I have the choice between a...

Hello everybody, I wired trough a DPDT switch the neck and bridge single coils of my SHS strat (Duckbucker in the middle) in series. The pickups are the Vintage staggered in the neck and Hot Strat in the bridge : the tone result is kind of muddy. Can I use a 500k tone pot and make the pickups...

Hello everybody, I am wondering about a wiring mod and I don't know if it is possible, I didn't found the wiring diagram on the net yet. I have near 0 experience in humbucking wiring (I wired the duckbucker in parralel once and put it in the middle position of my strat...). I dont really know...

Hello everybody, I have a hot strat single coil in the bridge position, and I wondered how it compare to a humbucker ? Is it the same output? I ask because I know nothing about the humbucker world, I play stoner rock music with lot of fuzz and I would like to know if a humbucker would do the...

Hello everybody, I am looking for a black single coil sized humbucker pickup cover in replacement of a white duckbucker single coil sized humbucker... Where can I buy such a thing ? Thank you !