Just an idea.

[Lee]

I don't know whether this would be of use, but I'm just wondrin'.

I never use tone controls, ever!

They are a waste of space.

What I was wondering is this:

I always use 4 wire pickups for coil splitting purposes. I think it gives them a huge versatility.

What I was wondering is: Does it make any sense to replace the tone control with an extra volume control?
What would happen is, that each coil of the humbucker pair would go to a volume control. If both volumes were set to '10' it would be a standard humbucker. If one of the volumes were set to '0' - then you would have a single coil. However, it would give you all those missing tones in between that a switch cannot give you.
For example, if you were playing with the neck pickup, you could back off one of the coils to '5' which would then give a 'half humbucker/half single coil type of tone.

I hope I'm making myself clear.

Any ideas anyone? have you ever heard of a Les Paul with 4 volumes (one for each coil) and no tone pots?

Is it worth considering?


Lee

 

[Robert S.]

I wouldn't find it practical because I roll the volume pots around quite a bit when I'm playing to clean up and warm up my tone. You could get somewhat simular results with a blend pot instead of a tone pot though.

I don't often use tone pots but I do use them. Not having them on the rare occasion that I want to use them would be a drag.

 

[sean hood]

Lee, I think it sounds cool. I rarely use the tone controls on my strat and would consider this mod. for my bridge humbucker. Let us know how it goes if you give it a try.

 

[SfordRog]

I tend to roll my tones back and forth quite a bit, depending on the sound I'm going for. Some players do it all outboard and leave the guitar knobs full all the time. However, a pan/blend pot + splitter switch without a tone knob might be an interesting EQ option. I guess it all depends on how you prefer to fiddle the hardware.

 

[SINGTONE]

I think its called spin a split. The first time i heard of this was in Vintage Mag. in Seymour's column, i think this setup is the wave of the future since it gives you the Hybrid/Dual Resonance in a pot AND you can get a normal humbucking sound' very versatile!

 

[That90'sGuy]

This spin a split sounds interesting.

Lee, I think you have a great idea there. I, too, don't use the tone controls ever. If it can get a halfway decent single coil tone from humbucker I'm all for the mod : )