Mixing Fender and Duncan pickups

BruceBruce

BruceBruce

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I'm putting a Hot Rails in the bridge and Cool Rails in the neck of my new Fender American special Strat. I want to keep the stock Texas Special single coil in the middle. I also added a pull-pull pot for coil splitting.
I searched on this forum and found a thread from a while ago where someone said Fender pickups are RW/RP with Duncans. So I figured out I should put the neck Texas Special in the middle position. When I wired my guitar up, positions 2 and 4 were out of phase and noisy. What should I do now? Should I put the middle Texas Special in the middle or swap the hot and ground wires on the one that's in the middle now? Which option will give me hum cancelling and in-phase sound in the in-between positions?
 
Mixing Fender and Duncan pickups

Every time I've had an issue with Fender pickups I've just swapped their hot and ground and was good to go.

And yes, they are RWRP with Duncans.
 
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Re: Mixing Fender and Duncan pickups

You didn’t swap them yet to check? You have much more patience than me.
 
Re: Mixing Fender and Duncan pickups

Get it. I would be ok with strings, but not neck.

Why do you need to take off neck? Sorry I'm not helping more but at least this keeps your thread bumped :)
 
Re: Mixing Fender and Duncan pickups

I believe your question has already been answered, just switch hot and ground of the middle pickup. And if you take the neck off you don't need to remove the strings and visa versa.
 
Re: Mixing Fender and Duncan pickups

The american special strat has the 22 fret neck with overhang and HSS routing, there's no other option.
 
Re: Mixing Fender and Duncan pickups

Hmm...I've never had to remove the neck on my parts o caster with a fret overhang and SSS routing.
 
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