Tapping a Duncan humbucker and getting hum bucking when used with a single coil?

[Ascension]

It doesn't work with a RW/RP in the middle to use a Duncan bucker tapped in the normal wiring as you will get hum. What I wonder is if doing a H/S/S set up you don't need to drop the RW/RP in the neck and use a standard wind middle? There is a way to wire a Duncan bucker to tap in hum-bucking with a single that is RW RP as have it done it in 2 of my guitars now but cant remember the color codes without pulling the covers right now. My question is if you wire a Duncan humbucker tap as is recommended normally then use it with a single does that single need to be conventional not RW/RP if you want it to be hum-bucking?

 

[gregory]

Re: Tapping a Duncan humbucker and getting hum bucking when used with a single coil?

You mean splitting, not tapping.

That out of the way...
Been there, done that.

Standard SD single coils are south, like the screw coil of a standard SD humbucker. That's what you need to use to get hum-cancelling with a humbucker slug coil.

The solution to rectify buying an RW/RP is to flip the magnet in the humbucker, attach the green and black wires as your split connection, connect the red to the bare with ground and use the white as your hot wire.

 

[Ascension]

Re: Tapping a Duncan humbucker and getting hum bucking when used with a single coil?

You mean splitting, not tapping.

That out of the way...
Been there, done that.

Standard SD single coils are south, like the screw coil of a standard SD humbucker. That's what you need to use to get hum-cancelling with a humbucker slug coil.

The solution to rectify buying an RW/RP is to flip the magnet in the humbucker, attach the green and black wires as your split connection, connect the red to the bare with ground and use the white as your hot wire.

Bigger question here is this can you just wire as normal if you use a standard wind single with the bucker split to get humbucking? If so need to sticky that info as would save folk some grief to use the RW/RP in the neck then the standard wind in the middle with the bucker tapped so you can get those bucking 2 and 4 positions on a 5 way.

 

[gregory]

Re: Tapping a Duncan humbucker and getting hum bucking when used with a single coil?

Correct: buy a standard single to be hum cancelling with the slug/inner coil of a humbucker.

It's good to know what to do if you get the wrong one, since RW/RP is marketed as a middle pickup, after all.