more wiring questions

[NeroRoxXx]

Hey guys sorry to keep asking but i got a few more ideas that i wanna try and i wanna find out first.

gibson les paul,3way,HH,2vol,2tone,2pushpulls (you know the standard)
alnico ii pro B and N
trying new things.

so im not a big fan of the middle position on the pickup swtich so i never go into the middle position, i do like the out of phase tone alot better for funky and strat like tones, so i figured i would like to wire my guitar so that the neck pickup is ALWAYS out of phase with the bridge,

#1
I know that to do that i would have to hard wire the neck pickup with the green to hot and black to ground, now my first question is:

With the neck pickup wired that way would i get the same exact neck pickup sound when only the neck pickup is selected?
I would only get out of phase sound when both are selected right? which is what i wanna go for.

#2
I would also like to do the coil splitting for the humbuckers, but i think things change a bit because the neck pickup is wired out of phase now.

so i wanna use the SLUG coil on the bridge and the Screw coil on the neck so when i select the middle position on the pickup selector and they are split i get a humbucker in parallel.

so what would be the right way to wire the neck pick up?



THANKS!!!

PS i'm rewiring all my guitars but i only want things usefull rather than 4 push pulls to give me a bunch of sounds i wont use, i rather even 1 push pull with a sound i will use you know?

 

[tone4days]

Re: more wiring questions

#1 - yes - it only sounds different in combination with the bridge pickup

#2 - hmmm, you are gonna have to mess with this and see what you come up with ... you might get the polarity correct but the wind direction wrong and the combination might sound thin and crappy

 

[NeroRoxXx]

Re: more wiring questions

thanks! i just gotta wait til next week when the pickups come in, should be interesting, i'll post my results.

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: more wiring questions

As you know, reversing the green and black conductor connections reverses the phase of the signal produced by the pickup. Recordings made using only the neck pickup before and after rewiring will be out of phase with each other. Just hope that the mixing console has a channel phase inverter button come overdubbing time.