Has anyone tried both Gibson 50's and modern at the same time in the same guitar?

[beaubrummels]

Has anyone tried wiring say the neck pickup 50's wiring and the bridge modern wiring in a Gibson-style 2V 2T circuit? Or vice-versa?

My thinking is could you brighten up a neck pickup and have more interactive tone on it, then keep a mid-driving bridge pickup as is through just a simple wiring change.

Thanks

 

[Aasinsilta]

Re: Has anyone tried both Gibson 50's and modern at the same time in the same guitar?

All my guitars have 1 V 1 T, but that is an interesting idea. A quick YouTube search doesn't have anything about them running at the same time, plenty of comparisons between the two methods though.

 

[Empty Pockets]

Re: Has anyone tried both Gibson 50's and modern at the same time in the same guitar?

The cool thing about life is you can do whatever you want and anybody who tells you not to is an *******.

 

[blueman335]

Re: Has anyone tried both Gibson 50's and modern at the same time in the same guitar?

My thinking is could you brighten up a neck pickup and have more interactive tone on it, then keep a mid-driving bridge pickup as is through just a simple wiring change.

Clever idea. I'm sure someone's done it. Like you, I also like neck PU's with a lot of high-end, and the method I've settled on is unbalanced coils (which mix some single coil sound in with the HB sound). All of my neck HB's are now wired for it, either thru spin-a-split, Artie's Coil Swap Mod, or having unbalanced coils to begin with (I've made some hybrids).

I'm a firm beliver that with bridge and neck PU's being so different in EQ, that it makes sense to use different wiring/electronics for each of them. I hate the 'bright bridge/dark neck' thing that many guitars have. I'll typically use 500K pots (1-meg on some LP's) and spin-a-split on neck HB's, and 250K's on the bridge.