I should probably complete the obvious and make a 3 coil hum for jazz :P

[Clint 55]

Wondering how I'd get or make a baseplate.

I could have 2 double thick mags in there lol! They could be hybrids too so I could conceivably have 4 different kinds of alnicos lol!

 

[idsnowdog]

Wondering how I'd get or make a baseplate.

I could have 2 double thick mags in there lol! They could be hybrids too so I could conceivably have 4 different kinds of alnicos lol!

Just buy three LACE sensors and mount them in a strat pickguard. Then use three mini on/off toggles. Then you can adjust the height of each individually but they still sound decent together. Otherwise, strat style single coils don't sound great in series or parallel.

 

[Clint 55]

Using hb coils such as 59s.

 

[beaubrummels]

with 3 coils, it will hum. is that the goal?

 

[Clint 55]

Yes

 

[Clint 55]

If I wired the outer coils first as same wind same polarity and then thru the middle coil as rwrp, it would be hum cancelling. I could do 59, Jazz, Seth. I don't like hybrids for jazz as they are too middy and cut up. But with 3 coils it would probably be plenty fat.

 

[JamesPaul]

I remember this being discussed before; probably more than once. Here's what my search uncovered.

https://forum.seymourduncan.com/foru...the-holy-grail

I thought the 2 Little humbuckers on the full size baseplate was cool - you'd have 4 coils to work with! But no one seems to like the split Little tones, so realistically it'd probably be all series and parallel combinations.

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[Clint 55]

Yeah there's a lot of fun stuff you can do, especially with the lil hums.

 

[Mincer]

What sound are you going for that you can't get with conventional designs? Or is this idea just for fun?

 

[Clint 55]

It's just for fun but it will have options beyond 2 coils and will probably sound differently. I can potentially use up to 4 different alnicos, and 3 different coils. It will be nice and fat and punchy. I would have to order a custom overwound 59 to get that out of 2 coils. I don't care for the Benedetto, none of the other higher output hums would work. I don't like hybrids for jazz because they're too crunchy, with 3 coils though I think it would surely be fat enough. That would be really fun to have a triple hybrid. I could do 59/Jazz/Seth or 59/80s 59/Seth.

 

[beaubrummels]

How would you fit 4 different Alnicos in a 3 coil pickup?

 

[Mincer]

The hard part is balancing clarity, which you need for dense voicings, with a fatter tone, which can make 4-5 note chords sound like mush.

 

[Clint 55]

^ That's a compromise to putting stuff in series, it does get swampier and lose clarity, but I still like it.

How would you fit 4 different Alnicos in a 3 coil pickup?

2 double thick hybrids.