two quarter pounders in series?

[tobereeno]

Re: two quarter pounders in series?

This setup is now my favorite pickup. I built another "half-pounder" and installed it in another guitar. In the first guitar, I used a 4-pole 5-way switch to be able to run the neck and middle pickups also in series - it's a little too muddy there. But in the bridge, it's wonderful. After all, it's a 26Kohm pickup that uses alnico, not ceramic, magnets...

 

[tobereeno]

Re: two quarter pounders in series?

I now have a sound sample; it's a recording from a phone so it's not studio quality. the playing isn't perfect either. but I think it gives a decent idea of the "thickness" of this frankenpickup.

I do have another Quarter Pound that has the half-power tap wire. I may swap that in to experiment with having one coil at half power to deliberately mismatch them, see what kind of sound I get...

https://youtu.be/Ut3qtHGV_L0

 

[DreX]

Re: two quarter pounders in series?

Thanks a lot for the demo. I wonder how they sound clean, but I guess nobody would use it for that purpose anyway.

I'm curious how tapping one of the coils would sound. It should have dual resonances, but the tapped coil would be lower output to such an extent that it might not be very noticeable, like when you notch a humbucker and a single coil in a Super Strat.

 

[tobereeno]

Re: two quarter pounders in series?

I am very curious to try it out. Because my pickups are wired into a SD Liberator pot, I could switch the coil from half to full power just by swapping the hot wire. And of course the whole "humbucker" is wired so that I can get the RWRP coil by itself, for a pure Quarter Pound tone.