Partial Coil Splitting on a Superswitch?

[austin]

So, I have a 2 humbucker guitar with 1 vol, 1 tone and a superswitch that I wired to give me the following combinations (the same as Suhr's 2-humbucker wiring scheme).
Neck Humbucker
Neck Humbucker split (screw coil active)
Neck and Bridge Humbuckers in parallel
Neck Hum split and Bridge Humbucker split (slug coil active)
Bridge Humbucker

I also have a DGT with the usual wiring http://www.prsguitars.com/csc/schematics/2012/dgt_2012.pdf

What I'd like to do is adapt the partial coil splitting the DGT does (although I wouldn't necessarily end up with the same resistor values) for use with the superswitch. Both my red/white wire combos are wired to the same pole of the switch (I have one pole free though, so I could wire them to different poles if I had to), and that pole is going to ground. What I'm not sure about is where I would add in a resistor? Would I just put it in between the output of that pole and ground instead of sending a wire straight to ground?

Thanks in advance for the help guys.
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Austin

 

[austin]

Re: Partial Coil Splitting on a Superswitch?

So, to answer my own question, all I had to do as remove the wire to ground and replace it with a resistor. In my case, I replaced it with a 1.5K resistor. The neck humbucker used to measure 7.5K when full and 3.75K when split. Now it measure 4.8K when split and sounds much better. The split neck+split bridge is fuller and more useful too. A cheap, easy mod that pay offs. What's not to love? Now I just have to pysch myself up to covert the tone control on my P90 guitar to a bass contour control!
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Austin

 

[smsuperstrat73]

Re: Partial Coil Splitting on a Superswitch?

So, to answer my own question, all I had to do as remove the wire to ground and replace it with a resistor. In my case, I replaced it with a 1.5K resistor. The neck humbucker used to measure 7.5K when full and 3.75K when split. Now it measure 4.8K when split and sounds much better. The split neck+split bridge is fuller and more useful too. A cheap, easy mod that pay offs. What's not to love? Now I just have to pysch myself up to covert the tone control on my P90 guitar to a bass contour control!
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Austin

Sorry for resurrecting an old thread but these are few and far between on the Resistor splitting. This puzzles me since I'm always hearing people complaining about split coils, and the DGT resistor mod seems to be the best to remedy this. So my question is, is the the wire to ground coming from the superswitch that you are putting the resistor on? I plan on using a mini variable resistor so that I can dial in the split tone I want. Thanks

 

[Mincer]

Re: Partial Coil Splitting on a Superswitch?

Can someone explain what this resistor mod does? I am not sure what it solves when you split the coils.

 

[beaubrummels]

Re: Partial Coil Splitting on a Superswitch?

Spin-a-split with a fixed value, no?