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My attempt would be to obtain a louder neck pickup on my tele to compensate the bridge PAF, but I still wanted a humbucking tone effect if possible and some single coil sparkle. The obvious candidate would be a P90, even if not humbucking, BUT in my drawer I remebered there were 2 unused GFS neck numbuckers (A2 and A5) so I started thinking about using 2 threaded poles coils to create a split single, arranged in a wide range humbucker style (although I know WRHB are 12 poles humbuckers with CuNiFe threaded slug, of course).
So I kept the A5 magnet, unscrewed 6 slug and connected the two coils in series like a normal hb, and that's the result.
I have to say it works. the hum is stil present but definitely low, the bass are a little gummy, like the one of a HB, treble are more similar to single coils, the mid range is even, it pairs very well with the bridge.
Has anybody tried something similar and wanted to share it?
My attempt would be to obtain a louder neck pickup on my tele to compensate the bridge PAF, but I still wanted a humbucking tone effect if possible and some single coil sparkle. The obvious candidate would be a P90, even if not humbucking, BUT in my drawer I remebered there were 2 unused GFS neck numbuckers (A2 and A5) so I started thinking about using 2 threaded poles coils to create a split single, arranged in a wide range humbucker style (although I know WRHB are 12 poles humbuckers with CuNiFe threaded slug, of course).
So I kept the A5 magnet, unscrewed 6 slug and connected the two coils in series like a normal hb, and that's the result.
I have to say it works. the hum is stil present but definitely low, the bass are a little gummy, like the one of a HB, treble are more similar to single coils, the mid range is even, it pairs very well with the bridge.
Has anybody tried something similar and wanted to share it?
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