Triple Shots with Gibson PUs.

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I really like the tone of my Gibson 498T & 490R in my Les Paul.
They are only two conductor but I see that you can buy them with 4 four conductor leads.

Has anybody wired these PUs to Triple Shots before.
I want to make sure it's going to work correctly before I purchase the PUs.
 
Re: Triple Shots with Gibson PUs.

you could, with a bit of surgery
make your ezisting pickups four wire


just have to get down below the tape
and solder in a new four conductor lead
 
Re: Triple Shots with Gibson PUs.

ehdwuld said:
you could, with a bit of surgery
make your ezisting pickups four wire


just have to get down below the tape
and solder in a new four conductor lead
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I wouldn't know how to do it.
I would also like to get a Zebra set without covers.
Figure I could sell my old PUs and cover a lot of the cost.
 
Re: Triple Shots with Gibson PUs.

tripleshots are a waste of time IMO unless you are going for P-rails.
You don't really need to have access to both coils of a split h/b as the will be so similar as to be indistinguishable.

A series/split/parallel can be done with a mini toggle, however split is often a nasty thin tone with a low output pickup - and you get hum.

The parallel option is nice, and will give you very close to s/c tone but with extra drive, less treble and no hum. A push/pull pot can be used to access these tones, so there's no extra woodwork needed.
 
Re: Triple Shots with Gibson PUs.

False. Each coil is VERY distinguishable on bridge humbuckers. And a parallel humbucker is quite useful as well.

On the neck position, the 2 coils are less distinguishable alone, but mix very differently with bridge coils.


Also, the 4 wire conversion only takes about 30 minutes to do. I dont remember the website, but it was really easy.

Remove the tape from the coils, cut the crossover wire, solder the colored leads as you see them here.

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Re: Triple Shots with Gibson PUs.

AlexR said:
tripleshots are a waste of time IMO unless you are going for P-rails.
You don't really need to have access to both coils of a split h/b as the will be so similar as to be indistinguishable.

A series/split/parallel can be done with a mini toggle, however split is often a nasty thin tone with a low output pickup - and you get hum.

The parallel option is nice, and will give you very close to s/c tone but with extra drive, less treble and no hum. A push/pull pot can be used to access these tones, so there's no extra woodwork needed.
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I already have Triple Shots on my other two humbucking guitars (Hamer Artists) and I notice a big difference between the individual coils, especially on the bridge.
Coil closest to the neck sounds P90ish and it actually gets used A LOT.
Coil closest to the bridge is perfect for the country twang.


And as Rumblebox mentioned, they neck pickup individual coils difinitely change how they mix with the different options combined with bridge.
 
Re: Triple Shots with Gibson PUs.

rumblebox said:
False. Each coil is VERY distinguishable on bridge humbuckers. And a parallel humbucker is quite useful as well.

On the neck position, the 2 coils are less distinguishable alone, but mix very differently with bridge coils.


Also, the 4 wire conversion only takes about 30 minutes to do. I dont remember the website, but it was really easy.

Remove the tape from the coils, cut the crossover wire, solder the colored leads as you see them here.

13dcafc9.jpg
Click to expand...


Maybe I'll look into that.
One concern is that my Gibson PUs have a braided ground and a single hot.
 
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