splitting the new stack plus with a humbucker?

[strangegrey]

Hey folks,

Probably a more technical question than anyone knows yet...but assume I wanted to place a humbucker in a strat with 2 strat plus pickups.....given the 4-conductor wire of the strat plus, I assume that it's possible to split the strat plus situated in the middle position...so that it would then hum cancel with the split humbucker....right?

I assume this has alot to do with magnet polarity....if after wiring up the guitar this way, and the notch bridge/middle doesn't cancel hum, will it simply be a case of pulling the humbucker magnet and flipping it around?

-Frank

 

[Artie]

Re: splitting the new stack plus with a humbucker?

This is interesting. I had to go double-check the Stack Plus specs to see if you were correct. I'm surprised, given their design, that they'ld make them splittable. After hearing J.LaGrassa's clips, I wonder what you'ld gain by doing that? (Not "you" specifically, but anyone in general.)

Artie

 

[slash857]

Re: splitting the new stack plus with a humbucker?

well i think if it would be rwrp when tapped, it would make the bridge/middle position hum free. thats a good question, id like to know the answer also. it makes sense to me that flipping the HB around would do the trick, but that might throw off some string volume balancing right? youd have to readjust the pole pieces probably... idk.

 

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: splitting the new stack plus with a humbucker?

The middle pickup IS RW/RP so that it is hum cancelling when split...

 

[Artie]

Re: splitting the new stack plus with a humbucker?

But Stack Pluses are inherently noise-free by their design. If I understand this correctly, they don't need to be RW/RP or have humbuckers reversed. They are all humbuckers. Thats why I don't get "splitting" them. What would you gain?

Edit: Sure enough . . . just double-checked the specs. The middle is RW/RP. I must be missing something here. If the pup is noise-free, why do they need an RW/RP one? :blackeye:

 

[zimmer]

Re: splitting the new stack plus with a humbucker?

With an HSS strat, would there be any tricks to using the stack plus in the neck and middle postions, with some sort of traditional humbucker at the bridge?

With the higher output of the stack plus, I'd been wondering which bridge humbucker to combine with a pair of these, for that matter.

 

[strangegrey]

Re: splitting the new stack plus with a humbucker?

But Stack Pluses are inherently noise-free by their design. If I understand this correctly, they don't need to be RW/RP or have humbuckers reversed. They are all humbuckers. Thats why I don't get "splitting" them. What would you gain?

Artie, the problem comes into play when you want that 4th position to be acurate with a humbucker in the bridge.

If you simply parallel the middle pup to the bridge humbucker, you'll wont get that notch-quack tone...you'll get a humbucker with a strat...which isn't the same.

The right way to do it, is to split the humbucker, so you're only mating one coil with the middle single coil. The problem then comes in, that the middle coil is already hum cancelled from the dummy coil underneath....

To make a long story short, ditching the bottom dummy coil is essential when mating it with a split humbucker, to get a good hum-cancelled position #4 with good quack.

Make sense?

 

[Artie]

Re: splitting the new stack plus with a humbucker?

To make a long story short, ditching the bottom dummy coil is essential when mating it with a split humbucker, to get a good hum-cancelled position #4 with good quack.

Make sense?

Perfect sense. Sometimes I just overthink this stuff.

Thanks;
Artie