Duckbucker and strat help please!

[Buckeyedead]

Hey guys!

I ran into a problem and I was wondering if you guys could help me out.

I bought a used duckbucker for my strat, the idea is to create a ballsy country strat so I have a fender Fat 50 in the neck, duckbucker in the middle and a Rio Grande Stelly in the bridge. When I read about the duckbucker, it said it was a 4 conductor pickup but I only see white, red and bare.

My next issue is that when I wired it in, there's phasing issues between the Stelly and the duckbucker which were not remedied when I switched the wires around. All three pickups work fine individually but when I go between the duck and stelly, it's really thing and I can't quite tell if the fat 50 and duck have an issue or not but that combo does sound better than the middle/bridge combo. Then I saw something about the duckbucker being meant to be wired in series and being kind of new to the wiring game, I really don't know how to do that so here we are.

I was wondering if someone could create a diagram for a strat with a 5 way blade and the pickups I have going in. 1 vol,1 tone. Something that would get all the pickups functioning properly

 

[jeremy]

Re: Duckbucker and strat help please!

is this an older one or the new style? i believe they were "meant" to be wired in parallel but series will be louder and thicker sounding

 

[Buckeyedead]

Re: Duckbucker and strat help please!

How can I tell if it's older or newer? I am pretty sure it's older though because it doesn't have the full plastic casing.

 

[jeremy]

Re: Duckbucker and strat help please!

sounds like the older one. those may be hard wired in parallel but flipping the hot and ground wires should flip the phase. bare should always go to ground

 

[Buckeyedead]

Re: Duckbucker and strat help please!

Flipping the wires on it didn't seem to fix the issue. But Ill try it again.

 

[Mincer]

Re: Duckbucker and strat help please!

The Duckbucker is wired in parallel, and is almost certainly out of phase with the Fender. I am not sure about the other pickup's phase, though.

 

[PFDarkside]

Re: Duckbucker and strat help please!

I seem to remember having to flip the wires on my Stelly when I combined it with my SSL-1s. You might have quite a variety of magnetic polarities and wind directions there...