Best combination i can do with 2 coil push pull pots: Artie GearJonser a lil help

[fusion101]

I'm going to put a alnico 2 pro and jb in my carvin, but what splits and taps should i do if have 2 push pull pots, i was thinking when one was up both humbuckers can be tapped and with the other one up the hum's are split, but what should i do when there both up?
Artie and Gearjonser i know ur both ****ing geniouses about this stuff, so help

 

[Artie]

Re: Best combination i can do with 2 coil push pull pots: Artie GearJonser a lil help

Flattery works for me. :laugh2:

First off, on a humbucker "tapping" and "splitting" are really the same thing. So here's what your options are:

Use one PP to split both. Use the other to select inside/outside coils.

Use one PP to split one, the other to split the other.

Use one PP to split one or both, use the other to parallel the other.

So far, I haven't been all that thrilled with the parallel sound. Let us know, and we can make the diagrams from there.

Artie

 

[Robert S.]

Re: Best combination i can do with 2 coil push pull pots: Artie GearJonser a lil help

Tapping and splitting are not the same thing.

A tapped pickup is an over-wound single coil pickup that has a "tap" or lead added inside the wind where a single coil would normally be wound to. The tap gets you normal output and the regular lead gets you higher output.

Splitting is when you short one coil of a humbucker.

One switch to split both pickups and a series switch between both pickups will be the most efficient use of twp dpdt pots in a 2 HB guitar. A phase switch would be the other option.

 

[tone4days]

Re: Best combination i can do with 2 coil push pull pots: Artie GearJonser a lil help

i have those two exact pickups in my brian moore i88.13 ... i like them quite alot (solid mahogany guitar) ... i combine them with a P type megaswitch that i find very cool for variety and convenience ... 4 of the 5 sounds are just incredibly cool ... if you used a superswitch, it'd be probably perfect ('cus you could get n+b, both full humbuckers, parallel) ...

if you are going to do inners/outers, you are going to need to do the mag flip on one of them, and then wire it 'backwards' (i.e. black to ground / green to hot) ...

do you have a 3 way blade or a 5 way blade or some other kind of pickup selector switch?

t4d

 

[fusion101]

Re: Best combination i can do with 2 coil push pull pots: Artie GearJonser a lil help

tone4days its a 3 way blade

 

[Artie]

Re: Best combination i can do with 2 coil push pull pots: Artie GearJonser a lil help

btw - If you don't want to mess with the flipping magnet part, do it like this:

Instead of giving you "inside/outside" per se, you have the stud of one, with the adjustable of the other, and vice-versa. Both combos remain noise-cancelling with no mod to the pickup.

Edit: Just to be clear, the bottom PP there splits both. The top PP selects which stud/adj pair is used.

 

[fusion101]

Re: Best combination i can do with 2 coil push pull pots: Artie GearJonser a lil help

thanks alot

 

[Artie]

Re: Best combination i can do with 2 coil push pull pots: Artie GearJonser a lil help

One quick, last thought. When I put this on my guitar, I found the difference between inside and outside coils to not be all that significant. Not worth the wiring trouble. I also found that I liked the adjustable coil of the neck, and the stud coil of the bridge best. (Because its a bit deeper into the string vibration.)

So . . . you can simplify that to just this:

And use the other PP for something else.