Hybrid pickups

PizzaMaker

PizzaMaker

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Hi all,

I've not done a hybrid job before and would like to try it. The Jazz & JB are a great combo, but has anyone tried to mix n match the coils on these pickups with each other, ie JB screw coil with Jazz slug & vice versa, or even JB & Jazz screw coils in one pup?
 
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You cant, or shouldn't hybrid screw with screw or stud with stud. Not because the studs or screws, rather because the winding direction. North coil and south coil are wired in oposite directions. If you loose the oposite wiring direction you loose the hum cancelling. It would no longer be a hum-bucker.
 
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By the way Orpheo posted his favorite hybrids which were jazz/59 (neck) and JB/Fullshred. I agree with him on the Jazz/59, best neck pup ever, but haven't troed the JB/Fullshred.
 
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Guitaraxz said:
You cant, or shouldn't hybrid screw with screw or stud with stud. Not because the studs or screws, rather because the winding direction. North coil and south coil are wired in oposite directions. If you loose the oposite wiring direction you loose the hum cancelling. It would no longer be a hum-bucker.
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They are all wound the same. They get the hum cancel by wiring start of one coil to the finish of the other.
 
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The offset might be a bit too much.....but then again the Custom and 59 are a good match and the offset is about the same.
 
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AlexR said:
The offset might be a bit too much.....but then again the Custom and 59 are a good match and the offset is about the same.
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Magnet choice is going to be an important factor in the final tone. Mismatched coils have more treble and less mids (less HB effect); the bigger the mismatch, the more prominent it is. With hybrids, there isn't nearly as much dependence on A5's for a sharp high end. You're getting that with the unbalanced coils. That allows you to get creative and look for other tonal qualities.

For me, the '59/Custom hybrid is best with an UOA5 or A2. The parent coils are both bright, thin A5 PU's, and a warmer magnet adds a fuller sound.
 
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The 59 and Custom winds also have that type of tone inherent in them.

The best hybrid I have is a Jazz N slug/Custom screw. It seems to work well even with an A5, but its best guitar to sit in is a chambered LP studio. It is now tuned a bit lower for when I'm in my QOTSA phase....and it has an A8 mag in. The neck is the other half of the Jazz N and a 59 bridge coil.
 
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blueman335 said:
That's a pretty sweeping statement, considering there's thousands of possible hybrid combinations. Just how many neck hybrids have you tried?
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Yes, the statement was wrong, let me re-rephrase it, its the hybrid I've liked the most. I tried A5, A2, UOA5, and A4 with it. A4 was the one that I liked.

I haven't tried enough hybrids for me to say that any one of them is the "best". The good result I had on that one just makes me want to try more hybrids on the bridge since I haven't been absolutly "convinced" on that area yet. I tried 59/custom A8 and JB/Distortion with ceramic double thick mag. That last hybrid was dumb since what I ended up doing was just a mag swap. At that time I didn't know that JB's and Distortions had the same coils!

The ones I want to try right now are JB/Fullshred A8, PATB2/Invader and stagmag/Invader. With lots of mags! If I'm convinced with any of them I'll probably try another neck.

The hybrid stated on this thread would be nice to know about, mag changes, and all!
 
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AlexR said:
The best hybrid I have is a Jazz N slug/Custom screw. It seems to work well even with an A5, but its best guitar to sit in is a chambered LP studio. It is now tuned a bit lower for when I'm in my QOTSA phase....and it has an A8 mag in. The neck is the other half of the Jazz N and a 59 bridge coil.
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Those sound like a couple of very good hybrids. I wish more PU makers would put some of these in production. I don't understand the insistence on matched coils, especially with the original PAF's so highly regarded.
 
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jazz jb hybrid is horrible. honky, nasal. just not cool. My rule of thumb? consecutive wire gauges (i.e.: 42+43, 43+44), and when using similar gauges, not more than 2k apart.
 
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I just made a 59b/ jazz neck hybrid, I call it the sentient+, still trying it out.

My personal favorites are a full shred b/ distortion b and FSn/DDn. The bridge is pretty similar JB/custom as far as windings. I just like mine with a double thick ceramic though.
 
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