Spin a split on hotrails

[chill]

...so I did the spinasplit mod on my hotrails over the weekend. It's the bridge pup in an Agile alder/ maple/ maple strat with 500K pots, .047 tone cap, and tone pot connected to volume pot wiper (50's mod).

Go figure, the hotrails single sounds like a hotrails single. Hot, middy, and a little bit grainy/ ceramic. It does have some single coiliness to it, and of course, that fine single coil hum. I may give the spin-a-somethin'-'ruther a try tonight.

 

[zionstrat]

Re: Spin a split on hotrails

Yeah, it's amazing how much of the character my dual rails keep with just a hint of 2nd rail dialed in and it usually doesn't take a lot for hum removal as well- And if you try the multiple/parallel spin mod described in the other thread I gaurantee you will hear it-Makes the 2 and 4 spots really, really quacky with my pups

 

[Zhangliqun]

Re: Spin a split on hotrails

Spin-A-Split ROCKS.

 

[LesStrat]

Re: Spin a split on hotrails

Interesting. That might be worth a try. Elaborate, please?

 

[chill]

Re: Spin a split on hotrails

I re-EQ'd and gave the hotrails spin-a-split another listen and noticed more difference tonight, in particular in the pick attack, which sounded pretty single coilish. The hotrails single sound is still fat and middy with a certain twang and gung to it. It's kind of amusing in retrospect, but I think I expected to hear a strat or tele type sound instead of a weaker hotrails sound...though I suppose that's why the hotrails sounds like it does instead of like the stag mag.

Then I wired it up as a spin-a-somethin'-'ruther from Cenulab's idea here: https://forum.seymourduncan.com/showthread.php?t=54434&highlight=spin-a-split Looking at the back of the pot, I wired it as: green to the left lug, white and a .01uF cap to the middle lug, red and the other leg of the .01uF cap to the right lug. HB on 10, SC on 0. As you rotate the 'ruther from HB to SC, it loses the lows and mids first while keeping the highs and mid highs, which makes the relative contrast of low end to high end make it sound a bit brighter and bright-middier, although they are not any louder. With the 'ruther around 4-7, pinch harmonics seemed more prominent than they did at either end of the taper. If you want a brighter and slightly less aggressive hotrails sound, that's the spot in the taper for you.

I agree with zionstrat that even a small amount of the 2d rail makes the pup sound railish and fairly hum cancelling, which may be a function of parallelling an ~8K coil with a 500K pot.