Simple all-hum-cancelling HH wiring?

sumitagarwal

sumitagarwal

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I'll just start off with saying that I play with medium gain and I hate hum.

With that in mind, I'm wondering what the simplest wiring might be to get the following modes while avoiding as much redundancy as possible and not having any non-hum-cancelling positions. I know this might not be possible, but an ideal load out would be:
  • Series neck
  • Series both
  • Series bridge
  • Outer singles
  • Inner singles
  • Parallel neck (if possible)
  • Parallel bridge (if possible)
I feel like this is approaching Jimmy Page wiring, but would like something simpler if possible and I'm also happy to skip the single coil neck and single coil bridge modes.
 
You want this with a LP style toggle or a five way blade?

you may need a 5 way superswitch to get the outer and inner coils

Or alternatively the neck or bridge in parallel

Its all doable

But not simple
 
ehdwuld said:
You want this with a LP style toggle or a five way blade?

you may need a 5 way superswitch to get the outer and inner coils

Or alternatively the neck or bridge in parallel

Its all doable

But not simple
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The vast majority of my guitars gave LP style toggles and 4 or 3 knobs, but I'm open to blade switch options too since I have some guitars that can be set up that way or have pickguard mounted electronics where I can do some cutting.
 
So you want a 3 way toggle
and push pull pots to do the split coils?

That should be in the wiring diagram list
 
ehdwuld said:
So you want a 3 way toggle
and push pull pots to do the split coils?

That should be in the wiring diagram list
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That's simple and I've done that. More trying to suss out simple approaches I may not have thought of to also have inner and outer coil combinations, stuff like that, without excessive tap dancing.

But from what I can tell most good solutions are with 5-way blades.

I've never tried a 6-way Freeway switch, maybe I should?
 
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This will split to the slug colis on both

If you want it to split to the adjustaadjustablereplace the ground connection with the hot from the volume pot
 
You may do a search for my Do It All wiring using a superswitch and 2 humbuckers. All positions are useful and cancel hum
 
Mincer said:
Sorry, I was travelling, and I had that link accessible, but just at home.
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Checked it out and I'm going to try it on my HH Charvel!

For my LP toggle guitars I'm going to try a variation of this, but instead with four push-pulls so I'll have independent control of the bridge and neck (suspect I'll often have the neck in parallel and bring in series).
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I'm trying to think of how I would adapt this for my 3-knob guitars...
 
I've wired a lot of guitars with "Dave's Do-It-All wiring". It's great (I wouldn't waste may time doing it to so many guitars if it wasn't really worth it). I love the "outer coils" setting for some good Strat quack. Of course that also depends on the pups you use.

You could add a p/p on each vol pot (or tone pot) to get the parallel setting for each pup separately (unlike your diagram which would require both p/p pots to be up to get both pups in parallel). Then you would have everything you asked for in your opening post, and nothing that you didn't want (the diagram above also gives you splits which I understood from your first post that you didn't want).
 
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GuitarDoc said:
I've wired a lot of guitars with "Dave's Do-It-All wiring". It's great (I wouldn't waste may time doing it to so many guitars if it wasn't really worth it). I love the "outer coils" setting for some good Strat quack. Of course that also depends on the pups you use.

You could add a p/p on each vol pot (or tone pot) to get the parallel settings. Then you would have everything you asked for in your opening post.
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That sounds like a great, super-fast switching, and intuitive setup. And all hum cancelling. So superswitch + push-pulls sounds like the grail setup for me.

If using the parallel switches, how would that affect the 2 and 4 positions?
 
sumitagarwal said:
That sounds like a great, super-fast switching, and intuitive setup. And all hum cancelling. So superswitch + push-pulls sounds like the grail setup for me.

If using the parallel switches, how would that affect the 2 and 4 positions?
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It shouldn't. You're still just selecting one of the coils, whether the other coil was connected to the first in series or parallel shouldn't matter. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong.
 
GuitarDoc said:
It shouldn't. You're still just selecting one of the coils, whether the other coil was connected to the first in series or parallel shouldn't matter. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong.
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Veeeerrry interesting. I'll be curious to hear anyone else chime in on that detail.

And then the obvious tangent: what are the best pups for running such a beast? Clearly it depends on preferences and priorities, but there will be some favorites.
 
Generally, I run mine with a vintage output in the neck, and medium hot (like the Hybrid, or the Custom Custom) in the bridge. It keeps the dynamics in tact, and the splits sound fantastic.
 
Mincer said:
Generally, I run mine with a vintage output in the neck, and medium hot (like the Hybrid, or the Custom Custom) in the bridge. It keeps the dynamics in tact, and the splits sound fantastic.
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That's pretty much where my head is at too. Probably on the lower end of vintage for the neck, although that might compromise the split tones. There must be some SD's with pretty unequal outputs, so I could get a vintage output neck with a hotter screw coil than slug coil?
 
sumitagarwal said:
That's pretty much where my head is at too. Probably on the lower end of vintage for the neck, although that might compromise the split tones.
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There are many neck pups that have been used with great success...59, A2P, Jazz, Pearly Gates, etc.


sumitagarwal said:
There must be some SD's with pretty unequal outputs, so I could get a vintage output neck with a hotter screw coil than slug coil?
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I'm not really sure what you are asking here. Are you talking about 2 pups with unequal outputs, or 1 pup with coils that have unequal outputs? The C/59 has coils with unequal outputs and lends itself very well to splitting. If you use a C/59 for the bridge pup, you could split to either the 59 coil (for lower output) or the Custom coil (for higher output).
 
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