hi, new to the thread, I have a 95 PRS McCarty and I'm in search for a set of new pickups. right now i have a JB in the bridge and whatever factory pup in the neck. It does have the push/pull coil tap on the tone knob, I notice that when I split the coil in the JB it is way to weak and thin, thinner than your average single coil, I play in a cover band and need a lot of different sounds, I love this guitar and any help would be most appreciated. Thanks Scott
New pups for a 95 PRS McCarty
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Lewguitar
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Re: New pups for a 95 PRS McCarty
Always will be weaker than a Strat singlecoil when you split a humbucker.
Try putting the JB in parallel instead. Better sound, IMO.
Don't know if your tone pot allows for that. Might need one with more options.
What you're doing now is splitting to a single coil mode...not coil tapping, BTW.
Always will be weaker than a Strat singlecoil when you split a humbucker.
Try putting the JB in parallel instead. Better sound, IMO.
Don't know if your tone pot allows for that. Might need one with more options.
What you're doing now is splitting to a single coil mode...not coil tapping, BTW.
eclecticsynergy
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Re: New pups for a 95 PRS McCarty
If your push-pull tone pot splits both pickups like my McCarty does, you might not be able to get split on the neck and parallel on the bridge from the one switch. You could replace the volume pot with a second push-pull to put your JB in parallel mode.
But there's another alternative- standard PRS split wiring uses resistors in the circuit so only part of each pickup's signal gets shunted to ground. This keeps the split tone beefier and it works really well even with low output pickups. With one as hot as the JB it shouldn't require much resistance to give you a lot more power.
It appears that PRS has taken down both lists of pickup specs that I used to refer to, but as I remember the HFS bridge pickup DCR was right around 15K. This is close enough to a JB that standard PRS split wiring for the HFS should be about right for yours. I think the values used were 1.1K for the neck pickup and 2.2K for the bridge. Since your neck pickup doesn't sound weak when split, you will probably find its resistor still in place from the original wiring. If you wire a 2.2K resistor in between the split from your JB and ground, you'll get a stronger split tone from it. And that way you'll still be able to split both pickups from the one push-pull.
If your push-pull tone pot splits both pickups like my McCarty does, you might not be able to get split on the neck and parallel on the bridge from the one switch. You could replace the volume pot with a second push-pull to put your JB in parallel mode.
But there's another alternative- standard PRS split wiring uses resistors in the circuit so only part of each pickup's signal gets shunted to ground. This keeps the split tone beefier and it works really well even with low output pickups. With one as hot as the JB it shouldn't require much resistance to give you a lot more power.
It appears that PRS has taken down both lists of pickup specs that I used to refer to, but as I remember the HFS bridge pickup DCR was right around 15K. This is close enough to a JB that standard PRS split wiring for the HFS should be about right for yours. I think the values used were 1.1K for the neck pickup and 2.2K for the bridge. Since your neck pickup doesn't sound weak when split, you will probably find its resistor still in place from the original wiring. If you wire a 2.2K resistor in between the split from your JB and ground, you'll get a stronger split tone from it. And that way you'll still be able to split both pickups from the one push-pull.
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