Superstrat
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I've wired my HSH ibanez with a push/pull tone switch to fat tap or 'tuned coil split' the humbuckers. This means that when the tone pot is pulled up, the inner coil of the humbuckers goes to ground (like a coilsplit) but via a capacitor which causes the inner humbucker coil to retain some of its bass tones. this also lessens the volume drop of splitting a humbucker, prevents an overly bright single coil sound (due to the 500k pots) and retains most of the hum cancelling properties.
This is nothing new and I'm sure there are tons of posts about it. I have however also wired the humbuckers to split and bypass the capacitors straight to ground in positions 2 and 4 of the 5 way pickup selector. this causes a single bridge/neck coil and the middle coil to work together like a strat in positions 2 and 4 but without any input from the inner coils of the humbuckers, this is called autokill. again this is nothing new and many people do this to their HSH setups.
The thing that I think is unique about my wiring diagram is that I have done both tuned coil splitting and autokill using a single push pull switch depending on which position the pickup selector is in.
with the tone pot pushed down: with tone pot pulled up:
position 1 = bridge humbucker
position 2 = bridge humbucker + middle single coil
position 3 = middle single coil
position 4 = neck humbucker + middle single coil
position 5 = neck humbucker
with tone pot pulled up:
Position 1 = tuned coil split bridge humbucker
Position 2 = coil split bridge single coil + middle single coil
Position 3 = middle single coil
Position 4 = coil split neck single coil + middle single coil
Position 5 = tuned coil split humbucker
that's a total of 9 distinct pickup combinations from 1 5 way pickup selector and 1 push/pull pot, not bad right?
I've not seen this before and if its not been done then I'd love to call it 'Super Gisby' wiring after my Dad who gave me a love of HSH guitars. if it has been done then someone let me know.
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capacitor 1 should have a value of 0.022uf
capacitor 2 is to 'tune' the splitting of the bridge humbucker, for vintage alnico 2 style pickups I would recommend 0.0047uf, for medium output 8k-12k I recommend 0.01uf and for hot modern humbuckers I'd go with 0.022uf especially for trebley JBs and the like.
capacitor 3 is to 'tune' the splitting of the neck humbucker for vintage and medium output pickups up to 10k I would recommend 0.047uf capacitors, for hot pickups over 10k I would recommend 0.01uf capacitors. I don't recommend 0.022uf for capicitor 3 as it makes even very hot necks muddy when split.
Lastly, for seymour duncan pickups please change my colours:
Red > Black
Green > White
White > Red
Black > Green
This is nothing new and I'm sure there are tons of posts about it. I have however also wired the humbuckers to split and bypass the capacitors straight to ground in positions 2 and 4 of the 5 way pickup selector. this causes a single bridge/neck coil and the middle coil to work together like a strat in positions 2 and 4 but without any input from the inner coils of the humbuckers, this is called autokill. again this is nothing new and many people do this to their HSH setups.
The thing that I think is unique about my wiring diagram is that I have done both tuned coil splitting and autokill using a single push pull switch depending on which position the pickup selector is in.
with the tone pot pushed down: with tone pot pulled up:
position 1 = bridge humbucker
position 2 = bridge humbucker + middle single coil
position 3 = middle single coil
position 4 = neck humbucker + middle single coil
position 5 = neck humbucker
with tone pot pulled up:
Position 1 = tuned coil split bridge humbucker
Position 2 = coil split bridge single coil + middle single coil
Position 3 = middle single coil
Position 4 = coil split neck single coil + middle single coil
Position 5 = tuned coil split humbucker
that's a total of 9 distinct pickup combinations from 1 5 way pickup selector and 1 push/pull pot, not bad right?
I've not seen this before and if its not been done then I'd love to call it 'Super Gisby' wiring after my Dad who gave me a love of HSH guitars. if it has been done then someone let me know.
.
capacitor 1 should have a value of 0.022uf
capacitor 2 is to 'tune' the splitting of the bridge humbucker, for vintage alnico 2 style pickups I would recommend 0.0047uf, for medium output 8k-12k I recommend 0.01uf and for hot modern humbuckers I'd go with 0.022uf especially for trebley JBs and the like.
capacitor 3 is to 'tune' the splitting of the neck humbucker for vintage and medium output pickups up to 10k I would recommend 0.047uf capacitors, for hot pickups over 10k I would recommend 0.01uf capacitors. I don't recommend 0.022uf for capicitor 3 as it makes even very hot necks muddy when split.
Lastly, for seymour duncan pickups please change my colours:
Red > Black
Green > White
White > Red
Black > Green
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