How Much Quack Will I Lose If...

itbepopples

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If I switch the stacked fender SCN in the neck position for a strat sized humbucker? Thats the quack in the #2 position (neck and middle).
 
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Re: How Much Quack Will I Lose If...

I'm not sure about the regular strat sized hb's, but I get amazing quack tones from my strat with an SM1 in the neck, and a classic stack in the middle. I think if you went with just about anything except the hot rails you would still get pretty good quack, but you definitely will have to play with the pickup heights a bit to get the best sound.
 
Re: How Much Quack Will I Lose If...

A bout half a ducks worth.

To be honest, you will still get some quack, but the neck pickup will be very dominant in the mixed sound.
 
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i use 2 single coil sized humbuckers (duckbucker neck, JB jr bridge) on my strat with a pu off an ealy 70's strat. i can still achieve the quack by either using only the mid pu or combining it with the neck pickup but as mentioned by kyuss you loose about half a duck.

im acually debating at this very moment weather or not to wire my 2 buckers as singles as well as install toggle switches to change them back and forth but im not sure if i will get a true single coil sound from it or not. if anyone knows this answer they could let me in on this info it would be greatly appreciated...
 
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what is the roundest SC sized humbucker with the lowest output? i was thinking of maybe throwing a quarter pounder in the middle to even out the output issue. with the bridge humbucker being pretty hot i dont usually use the number 4 position too much but the nice quacky number 2 is something i really dont feel like losing.
 
Re: How Much Quack Will I Lose If...

if your worried about loosing the quack why not try a duckbucker? which has a nice low output of 3.0k and its made to quack.
 
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