Thin sounding 2 position on my strat with Little'59

[auratnik]

I instaled SD Little'59 bridge in my Stratocaster 40th Anniversary with noiseless pickups and I found out that 2 positions (bridge+middle) sound kind of low on output and thin. It sounds much better with an old noiseless single coil. What might be wrong because as a bridge only humbucker sounds cool.

 

[AlexR]

Re: Thin sounding 2 position on my strat with Little'59

Out of phase. The ground and hot wires need swapping

 

[auratnik]

Re: Thin sounding 2 position on my strat with Little'59

I connected black (hot) on the switch as was hot from a single coil, red and white together and green and ground together on volume pot (-).

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: Thin sounding 2 position on my strat with Little'59

I connected black (hot) on the switch as was hot from a single coil, red and white together and green and ground together on volume pot (-).

Try connecting the black to the ground instead and then the green to the switch.

That should put it in phase with your other two pickups.

 

[AlexR]

Re: Thin sounding 2 position on my strat with Little'59

Almost all Fender pickups are reversed magnet/polarity to Duncans. It is very common to have to reverse a Duncan colour scheme.

 

[Mincer]

Re: Thin sounding 2 position on my strat with Little'59

Every Seymour Duncan pickup (except the Antiquity Texas Hots) is wired out of phase with current Fender pickups. Swap the green & black (keep bare to ground) and you will get your sound back.

 

[gregory]

Re: Thin sounding 2 position on my strat with Little'59

I still wouldn't expect stellar position 2 tone splitting a Little '59, but you could do worse.

Also, note that you'll get the coil closest to the bridge when running the green to hot and the red/white to ground which definitely won't be an improvement over the inner coil.

If you want to use the inner coil without changing the switching logic, solder the black and green wires together for the junction used to split, connect the bare and red to ground and use the white wire as the hot wire.

 

[auratnik]

Re: Thin sounding 2 position on my strat with Little'59

I still wouldn't expect stellar position 2 tone splitting a Little '59, but you could do worse.

Also, note that you'll get the coil closest to the bridge when running the green to hot and the red/white to ground which definitely won't be an improvement over the inner coil.

If you want to use the inner coil without changing the switching logic, solder the black and green wires together for the junction used to split, connect the bare and red to ground and use the white wire as the hot wire.

Will this keep the humbucker sound (bridge position) the same? On my Anderson HSS second position switch middle pickup with bridge (inner coil) and it sounds stellar.

 

[gregory]

Re: Thin sounding 2 position on my strat with Little'59

Yes.

The wiring I gave you makes the pickup functionally equivalent to what it was but with the phase reversed. Simply swapping green with black is not functionally equivalent.

 

[auratnik]

Re: Thin sounding 2 position on my strat with Little'59

Thanks!

 

[gregory]

Re: Thin sounding 2 position on my strat with Little'59

You bet.

I didn't come right out and say it, but I wouldn't expect a significant difference between the inner coil and the outer coil when splitting a single-sized, sided-by-side humbucker.