two quarter pounders in series?

[tobereeno]

I'm recently very much in love with the Quarter Pounders. I got to thinking...I'd like to make a humbucker out of two of these.

1. would one of the coils need to be RWRP in order to combine them into a humbucker?
2. Anyone try this before? Any guesses on how it might sound?

I'm thinking of making a Quarter Pounder humbucker (or asking the custom shop to build me one properly) to go in place of a PA Distortion trembucker - an already very high output pickup. The idea would be to run it split most of the time (using only one coil), but then kick it into humbucker mode when I need that little push over the cliff.....

 

[ItsaBass]

Re: two quarter pounders in series?

Yes, one would have to be RWRP.

My guess as to how it would sound is unusably muddy. Even regular 1/4 Lbs. can get there without too much effort. Two of them in series would be useless, unless you just wanted to make noise music.

 

[firebirdguy72]

Re: two quarter pounders in series?

I think what you're thinking of is the "double quarter pounder" and it can be found at McDonalds...

 

[firebirdguy72]

Re: two quarter pounders in series?

But seriously though I'm with Itsabass... I think it would be mud city.

 

[AlexR]

Re: two quarter pounders in series?

I think only pigs would like it.

You might get more success with both coils having taps. That way you can switch either the screw or slug fatter or thinner for flexibility.
And maybe somewhat underwound from a regular QP for each coil.

 

[Inkstained]

Re: two quarter pounders in series?

The sound would be fat, no doubt. [emoji200]


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[idsnowdog]

Re: two quarter pounders in series?

Buy a GFS Bigmouth instead. It makes a great match for a QP in terms of looks and tone.

 

[Davii]

Re: two quarter pounders in series?

I'm sure I saw SD post something about this on Twitter, complete with pic. Don't quote me on that mind...

 

[tombogiri]

Re: two quarter pounders in series?

So we'd have a 'half pounder'???? :nervous:

 

[EDX]

Re: two quarter pounders in series?

IIRC there already is a quarter ponder humbucker (obviously customshop), it would be nice to ask the custom shop about how it ended sounding

 

[tobereeno]

Re: two quarter pounders in series?

well I'll be damned. it's been done already!

 

[DreX]

Re: two quarter pounders in series?

I think that Half Pound humbucker would go great with the Triple Shot; the single coil tone is proven, you can toy with series, and probably get solid performance from the parallel mode.

 

[tobereeno]

Re: two quarter pounders in series?



Well, it definitely sounds interesting! middle quarter pounder is on its way to fill that last hole.

in initial testing, I preferred it tapped. Clean and untapped, it sounds extremely thick, but with the tone knob rolled off halfway. It actually works for clean jazz chords and leads, but that's about it.

Distorted, it sounds not all that different from a single quarter pounder (no surprise there), but rounder. It's very sweet - kind of like a variation on woman tone but with a bit more upper harmonic clarity, I'm guessing due to the bridge position. It sings and sustains and it may not cut through a band mix (will have to test it) but it's a beautiful lead tone. Tested through a Mesa Royal Atlantic, Klon KTR, and Voodoo Labs Giggity.

 

[DreX]

Re: two quarter pounders in series?

That's awesome, I bet a lot of people would love to hear how that sounds if you're ever feeling charitable.

When you say tapped, do you mean split, or did you actually use the tap wires somehow? How did you end up wiring it? I bet parallel might sound pretty nice, you'd retain the original QP tone more, but get a wider coverage of the string.

Also, your QP guitar reminds me a lot of my QP Strat. I put little tap switches in the exposed pickup cavities:

 

[tobereeno]

Re: two quarter pounders in series?

I'll get around to recording some informal clips for sure!

 

[GuitarDoc]

Re: two quarter pounders in series?

A Triple Shot mounting ring would allow you to get some great tones out of it. If you prefer not to have a mounting ring, then a couple toggles so you can switch series/parallel and switch between coils. Or even a "spin-a-split" might be great so you don't have to be in full series bucker mode.

 

[DreX]

Re: two quarter pounders in series?

I mentioned the Triple Shot above, but his guitar doesn't accept mounting rings as it turns out.

 

[Artie]

Re: two quarter pounders in series?

I mentioned the Triple Shot above, but his guitar doesn't accept mounting rings as it turns out.

Wow DreX . . . sweet axe!



Not sure if you're even trying to do the series thang, but I've got a diagram for my son's Strat that does either the B/M or M/N in series to make a virtual humbucker. The coils don't need to be right beside each other, and may actually benefit from not being in that close proximity to each other.

 

[DreX]

Re: two quarter pounders in series?

Wow DreX . . . sweet axe!



Not sure if you're even trying to do the series thang, but I've got a diagram for my son's Strat that does either the B/M or M/N in series to make a virtual humbucker. The coils don't need to be right beside each other, and may actually benefit from not being in that close proximity to each other.

Thanks, I bought it used and had to polish the top, so I went to town on it with Meguiars Mirror Glaze.

I'm not a big fan of series on stock style Strats, the Fender S-1 stock wiring does that and it's just too fat compared to the 1,3,5 positions, but I'm really interested in having two QPs side by side as OP has done. Especially with Triple Shots, seems like a recipe for a super humbucker with three or four usable configurations, not un-like P-Rails. But one thing just occurred to me, you can't mount two QPs in Triple Shots because the switches would prevent the placement of mounting holes, it would have to by jerry rigged. I would support that twin QP in a normal humbucker mount as a forum pickup idea for the future.

 

[jtougas]

Re: two quarter pounders in series?

Marketing idea for SD's next device: single coil frame with a switch built in for tapping a coil, or S/P/T a sc-sized humbucker...