Splitting/Tapping/Parallel/Series wiring?... Just when I thought it was easy...

[ChadVanHalen]

Ok, so while my #1 is out getting a sweet new refin I started thinking of potential final mods. Being a Gunslinger Retro with one pickup and one volume not much can be done outside of switching the stock Super Distortion for a JB (obviously)... But I always hear people ranting and raving about how every guitar should have splits here or taps there and all that and seeing as I don't have a guitar with either I should get that done when I get the body back and replace the pups to help clean up the obligatory pre-solo A-G-D clean bridge in every hair metal song ever...

So here's the question, for a pretty high gain rig (full of JB superstrats into Marshalls or Splawns) would getting a push/push knob be any advantage for the brief chording or the potential clean ballad-y thing that hitting a clean channel or turning the volume down/adding some chorus wouldn't do... And if so should it be coil split or tapped or I've heard some people say run it in parallel which I definitely have not heard before haha. It's relatively cheap and easy, and since I'll be in that neck of the woods should I go for that small bit of mod or would any noticeable affect just be buried in this sort of rig?

Thanks in advance

 

[Edgecrusher]

Re: Splitting/Tapping/Parallel/Series wiring?... Just when I thought it was easy...

not much can be done outside of switching the stock Super Distortion for a JB (obviously)...

Why is that obvious? What is the super d not giving you that your hoping the JB will?

as for the splits thing... it just adds one more tonal option... if you want another passage a bit different. Will it revolutionize your world? Probably not. But you might find it useful from time to time. I dont care for JB's split... I would suggest parallel which is still humbucker but drops the power a bit.

 

[hermetico]

Re: Splitting/Tapping/Parallel/Series wiring?... Just when I thought it was easy...

I think you can benefit on to have the neck pickup in parallel for certain clean pasages

 

[ChadVanHalen]

Re: Splitting/Tapping/Parallel/Series wiring?... Just when I thought it was easy...

Why is that obvious? What is the super d not giving you that your hoping the JB will?

as for the splits thing... it just adds one more tonal option... if you want another passage a bit different. Will it revolutionize your world? Probably not. But you might find it useful from time to time. I dont care for JB's split... I would suggest parallel which is still humbucker but drops the power a bit.

Obviously because I've got JB in every guitar, except for the ones I haven't bothered to put them in... But stocked in most of my live workers, it's a tonal safe zone when touring and the rig that's at the club is hardly ever a safe zone...

Anyway I've heard splits being talked about a bunch but never really got much into hearing about parallels. It drops the power, so is it similar to just lowering the volume or does it do something a bit tonally different like a split would

I think you can benefit on to have the neck pickup in parallel for certain clean pasages

Ya but this guitar is a single hum, single vol guitar

 

[Demanic]

Re: Splitting/Tapping/Parallel/Series wiring?... Just when I thought it was easy...

Either mount them in Triple Shots, solving the problem entirely, or run two push/pulls to put the neck and bridge in parallel with themselves. Or a 5 way superswitch that will let you split to the slug coil of each while still having full neck and bridge options. The JB does sound sweet split IMO. After all it's still quite hot even split.

 

[GuitarDoc]

Re: Splitting/Tapping/Parallel/Series wiring?... Just when I thought it was easy...

Either mount them in Triple Shots, solving the problem entirely, or run two push/pulls to put the neck and bridge in parallel with themselves. Or a 5 way superswitch that will let you split to the slug coil of each while still having full neck and bridge options. The JB does sound sweet split IMO. After all it's still quite hot even split.

He's only got 1 (one) pup.

But it's a good suggestion to use a Triple Shot mounting ring on that JB.

Edgecrusher's suggestion for parallel rather than split is right on. Parallel is a much better sounding option for clean tones. It has more depth and character than split, plus you get humbucking.

But the Triple Shot will give you series, parallel, split to screw coil, and split to slug coil. Wit the TS you can decide which tones sound best to you.

 

[Synapsys]

Re: Splitting/Tapping/Parallel/Series wiring?... Just when I thought it was easy...

I have a one pickups Jackson with a single JB and volume push-put pot. Just like Edgcrusher, I recommend thewiring in parallel, especially if you play clean from time to time like I do.

 

[JohnnyGuitarCA]

Re: Splitting/Tapping/Parallel/Series wiring?... Just when I thought it was easy...

I prefer going the series/parallel route. Also, if your humbucker is angled, I definitely would NOT split the pickup.