Favorite wiring for HH with a 5-way super switch?

Beginning to wonder if this magnet flipping business is just one of those "youtube things" someone did to a MIS-matched set of pickups, and which has suddenly become the accepted norm for putting humbuckers in the neck.

As far as I can see, if you just laterally move a bridge pickup, let's say magnet north pole pointing towards the floor, to the neck, DO NOT rotate it, and just wire up a bridge north cool with a neck south coil, you've created a big humbucker, job done. So what if the screw coils are both nearest the bridge? Who's going to notice six rows back?

Acoustically, for most humbuckers, you won't hear the slightest difference between the screw coil and the slug coil anyway.

For humbuckers with, say a rail in the south coil and slugs in the north (or vice versa), or if you want a set of zebra color scheme pickups, with the cream coils both on the outside, companies like S-D already sell matching bridge and neck sets with the physical positions, colors and logos adjusted accordingly. For example, S-D's P-Rails SET.
 
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eclecticsynergy said:
Trying to figure out how aesthetics come into play - does that switch require turning one pickup around?
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With that particular switch, Dimarzio said you didn't and I did not. That particular switch is Ibanez proprietary and is very non standard. You can turn pickups or flip mags/wiring to get different coil combo's which could leave logos upside down. in some cases
 
Bill Dennis said:
I have installed pickups with that switch and discussed with Dimarzio. A mag flip is not needed but for asthetics some might choose to
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No mag flip or pup rotation+wire swapping is required *if* you don't care about the two inner coils having 60 cycle hum.

However, if you want hum-canceling when the two inner coils are combined, one of the two coils needs to be different magnetic polarity from the other. And the inner coils on typical Neck and Bridge humbuckers have the same magnetic polarity (North). Anyone reporting that they are getting hum-canceling from those two coils combined without having to mag flip or pup rotation+wire swapping, happens to have lucked out from one of their two pickups alredy being RWRP. Case in point: ibanez guitars with that scheme come from the factory with one of the two humbuckers set up that way.

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Ok, figured it out.

That diagram for the Ibanez propietary switch I provided earlier does not yield Both Inner Coils in Position 2 (when used with typical Neck and Bridge pickups where both inner coils are Slugs and have a North polarity. What Position 2 of that proprietaey switch does yield in Position 2 (using typical humbuckers) is Neck South Coil (outer) and Bridge North coil (inner). So yes a hum-canceling pair but not both Inners.

If Juanhanglo is getting both Both Inners as humcanceling without having had to rotate+wire swap or mag flip (or the pup already set up that way), then he isn't using that Ibanez proprietary switch like i thought he was, but some other superswitch.

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I have an HH (soon to be HSS) wired like this:

1: bridge series
2: bridge split
3: bridge+neck parallel (typical middle sound)
4: neck split
5: neck series

This is done with a Stew-Mac Superswitch.
 
Jack_TriPpEr said:
Ok, figured it out.

That diagram for the Ibanez propietary switch I provided earlier does not yield Both Inner Coils in Position 2 (when used with typical Neck and Bridge pickups where both inner coils are Slugs and have a North polarity. What Position 2 of that proprietaey switch does yield in Position 2 (using typical humbuckers) is Neck South Coil (outer) and Bridge North coil (inner). So yes a hum-canceling pair but not both Inners.

If Juanhanglo is getting both Both Inners as humcanceling without having had to rotate+wire swap or mag flip (or the pup already set up that way), then he isn't using that Ibanez proprietary switch like i thought he was, but some other superswitch.

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It makes sense that a switch purpose-designed for guitars would eliminate the need to reverse magnets.

I've always felt neck outer coil plus bridge inner would make a good combo - the beefier sounding half of the bridge pickup, while maximizing neckish-ness on the other. Don't think I've ever had that particular combination on any axes myself.

Sure do love the inside coils parallel combo on guitars that offer it though.
Especially two PRSs that have rod mags in their slug coils.
 
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