Old Dimarzio with TWO gray cables ??

[Tone-Analyst]

I got this local guy offering the Super Distortions in a trade. One is older and has the gray wire but it has two. Has anybody here seen this before? He say it's the coil split tap. (See attachment. Thx!

 

[Ayrton]

Re: Old Dimarzio with TWO gray cables ??

Splittable Super Distortions were called Dual Sounds, but I never saw one with twin seperate leads.

Easy fix if the price is right

 

[Adieu]

Re: Old Dimarzio with TWO gray cables ??

Is one of the wires two-conductor, and the other a single wire? Then maybe

Otherwise, also possible someone replaced the leads...and just had one color wire...

 

[hamerfan]

Re: Old Dimarzio with TWO gray cables ??

Mine has 2 leads with braided wire surrounding

 

[DavidRavenMoon]

Old Dimarzio with TWO gray cables ??

This was a thing to do back in the day. The Super Distortion had a 2 conductor cable. The Dual Sound had a 4 conductor cable. If you wanted to change a SD into a DS, this was one way to do it. You could’ve easily buy 4 conductor cable.

Also Craig Anderton, who wrote the book “Electronic Projects for Musicians had stated in an article once that separating the two coils with two cables lowers the capacitance.

So this might have been done for similar reasons.

I did this to an old Super Distortion, which I still have. It has two Teflon jacketed 3 conductor cables (shield and two wires) coming out of it.


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