EVH hum + ?

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HvyMetul

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Hello everyone, new here!

I'm building a guitar from pre-fab parts and as the title gives away
it's going to be in the style of EVH's Frankenstrat.

Except I'm making a fully-functional guitar out of it.
Fully floating Floyd, ash body, maple neck and fully functional H-S-S
setup with tone knob and coil tapping.

EVH Humucker is rumored to have been produced for Fender by SD so it seems natural to pair it off with other SD pickups.

The said humbucker has no coil-splitting to my knowledge so I'll be only doing that to the middle and neck single coils.

For the two single coils I'm biased towards Hot Rails. Is there other obvious choices I'm missing?

Since I plan to coil-tap the single coils, I'll be installing a 5-way switch for the
Hum/Hum + Middle/Middle/Middle + neck/Neck with coil-tap only available on the single coils having no effect on the humbucker.

Do you guys think this will be decent pairing for that humbucker?
 
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Coil split vs coil tap = lolz

Tapping a coil means you bypass the outer coils with a "tap point" by soldering a conductor somewhere between the inner and outer coils. You now have a ground, a hot conductor and a tapped output. By switching to the tapped output you bypass the outer coils yielding a leaner sound with less inductance.

Splitting a coil removes a coil from a humbucker making it effectively a single coil.

Tapping rails? Sounds interesting.
 
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Hot Rails are single coil sized humbuckers according to the site and can be split.

The middle pickup might have to be a real single coil as humbuckers aren't recommended for that position.

So far I'm thinking, EVH humbucker in the bridge, Hot rails in the neck and middle position is TBD.

Any recommendations?

I'm not completely set on Hot Rails either. I'll go with real single coils for the S-S combination if it makes sense.
 
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zenmindbeginner said:
Coil split vs coil tap = lolz

Tapping a coil means you bypass the outer coils with a "tap point" by soldering a conductor somewhere between the inner and outer coils. You now have a ground, a hot conductor and a tapped output. By switching to the tapped output you bypass the outer coils yielding a leaner sound with less inductance.

Splitting a coil removes a coil from a humbucker making it effectively a single coil.

Tapping rails? Sounds interesting.
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Got it. Thank you.
 
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The hot rails neck is pretty much a PAF class humbucker. I'm not sure that is what you want.

What you you expect from the neck pickup? Strat sound or humbucker sound?
 
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You should make the the middle pickup just a bunch of junk.

Im sorta joking, sorta not. Adding neck & middle, though standard, will take away from your tone cuz the magnet pulls on the vibrating string- hence theight & beauty of the one hb superstrat. however single coil beat humbucker so hot rails or jb jr type is good choice. But i would suggest ditchong the middle, & heck, the neck pickup too.

I got an EVH- very dang bright, but i put it in a reg strat. In an ash/ floyd,u might be just fine- the wind is tight yet it has that A2 character. Let us know how it goes w pics if u can. Which Frank- red? Or b/w? Or bumblebee?
 
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uOpt: Creamy single-coil sound with medium to high output perhaps.
I'm familiar with the sound of SH-2(Jazz?) in the neck of my other guitar and it's not airy and clear enough

KBliss:

Red 1984/5150 variety but with greater tone range.
I don't believe my ears could tell difference of the "pull" from other pickups.
 
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At one time ( a long time ago ) Schecter made single coils with taps. They could sound like a stock Fender PU or as a hotter single coil PU. Part way through the wind the wire was connected to a lead and then wound some more so that you essentially had a stock single coil PU and a hot single PU in the same PU.
 
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The Quarter Pounder's are frequently tapped for two different outputs.

Do consider noiseless singles though. SD's stacks feature a RWRP middle (I can't remember if it's the classic or vintage) so when you split them, you still have hum canceling in 2 and 4 positions. You should be able to split the EVH so that it's single coil plays nicely by lead swapping or magnet reversal.

Oh and DiMarzio's Area series has reduced string pull which is great for HSS set-ups.

I haven't tried SD's noiseless singles but I have tried nearly every VV and Area pickup and they are really nice sounding.
 
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HvyMetul said:
uOpt: Creamy single-coil sound with medium to high output perhaps.
I'm familiar with the sound of SH-2(Jazz?) in the neck of my other guitar and it's not airy and clear enough
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If you don't like the Jazz you won't like the hot rails neck.

Have you thought about YJM neck + middle?
 
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YJM is an option sure.
The reason I considered Hot Rails is the ability to split.
Haven't found decent clips of split HR though.



uOpt said:
If you don't like the Jazz you won't like the hot rails neck.

Have you thought about YJM neck + middle?
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Everything that will sound decent will split will be full dark humbucker when not split.

Maybe a tapped Quarter-Pounder is an idea?
 
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... why a full-floating Floyd for a Frankenstein? The key to EVH's quick string attack is having the trem blocked for downward pivot only - quivering single notes & whammy upbends are not characteristic of Ed's sound...
 
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MJ in the custom shop can make you an exact replica of EVH's pickup, as she was the one who originally wound it (and still has notes on what she did).
 
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I'm all set on the EVH humbucker.

Taking back what I said about Jazz SH-2 pickup.
It's not bad, I just want something in the middle and neck with more headroom.

Considering this guitar will be slightly different from my H-H one. Ash instead of Alder so I'm expecting slightly better high end.
 
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with a EVH frank in the bridge i would pair it with classic stacks in the middle and neck for the strat tones without hum or the dimarzio cruisers work amazing too just listen to andy timmons who gets great classic strat tones from his cruisers with the AT-1 Hummmer in the bridge:cool2:
watch these vids to hear his strat tones on his HSS ibanez
http://www.dimarzio.com/player/andy-timmons
 
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