Hello. I'm new here. Hoping to learn a lot from you knowledgeable people.
At the moment I'm working on an Aria, HSS, with a coil tap switch. Replacing the stock single coils with Wilkinsons I ran into problems. The stock pups, like all stock single coils I've seen, have a big ceramic magnet glued to the underside. Wilkinsons, Seymour duncans, and pretty much any other high end single coils are not shaped like this, but the cavities are sized for these kind of stock pickups. The problem this leads to is that when you put the new pickups in, they sit really low and you lose volume. I just jammed a bit of rubber in there to bring the pup a little higher, seems to be working out okay. A friend of mine used torn up bits of a cigarette box, which is obviously pretty ghetto. What do you do?
I've also found that the coil tap switch (it's a two way switch) only has 3 lugs, instead of the 6 you see in wiring diagrams. This is fine is you want to set it up for coil tap, but I kinda wanted to hear how my JB would sound wired parallel. Any thoughts on this. Do a lot of guitars that come with coil tap as standard have this 3 lug thing? What about the ones with a push/pull on the volume knob? Would the lugs then be on the pot, or a separate box wired to the pot?
At the moment I'm working on an Aria, HSS, with a coil tap switch. Replacing the stock single coils with Wilkinsons I ran into problems. The stock pups, like all stock single coils I've seen, have a big ceramic magnet glued to the underside. Wilkinsons, Seymour duncans, and pretty much any other high end single coils are not shaped like this, but the cavities are sized for these kind of stock pickups. The problem this leads to is that when you put the new pickups in, they sit really low and you lose volume. I just jammed a bit of rubber in there to bring the pup a little higher, seems to be working out okay. A friend of mine used torn up bits of a cigarette box, which is obviously pretty ghetto. What do you do?
I've also found that the coil tap switch (it's a two way switch) only has 3 lugs, instead of the 6 you see in wiring diagrams. This is fine is you want to set it up for coil tap, but I kinda wanted to hear how my JB would sound wired parallel. Any thoughts on this. Do a lot of guitars that come with coil tap as standard have this 3 lug thing? What about the ones with a push/pull on the volume knob? Would the lugs then be on the pot, or a separate box wired to the pot?
