Roccoisgone
New member
Sorry if this is elementary but I spent a couple days trying to educate myself but I’m still uncertain. There is way too many variables and things to learn. I want to wire a HSS strat with stacks in the neck and middle position and a traditional humbucker in the bridge. My end goal is to have a five blade switch work like a traditional strat with the humbucker serving as a single coil in both the bridge/middle position and the bridge position. I am going to put in a blower switch that will bypass everything and just be full on humbucker. From what I have learned…if correct because opinions vary… the stacks should be not be split, as the second coil is just for hum cancellation. To split out the lower coil would not do much sonically except remove the benefits of hum cancelling. So what confuses me is the bridge humbucker. With a five way blade traditional setup, Is there anything special that needs to be done to mitigate hum when the humbucker is split? In the only stack diagram I can find, they reverse the wiring on the humbucker… so if the stack grounds are black and the hot is red, then the humbucker is wired with the red to ground and the black becomes the output. I don’t know how to make the humbucker, as a single coil, play well with the middle stack and on its own. Thanks for any info, or diagrams that might help! Btw, the pickups are Tom Anderson SL1s and H2+.
