RightD27
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Hello. I have an idea but I’m not quite sure if it can be done. On my LAG I have a single coil in the neck, a single coil in the middle, a humbucker in the bridge, 1 volume, 1 tone and 1 5-way blade switch.
What I want to do is to put a single coil sized humbucker in the neck and coil-split it where when the knob is kept down it’s a humbucker and when pulled up it is a single coil. And of course this would go to the 1 new push / pull volume knob which I install to eliminate the stock volume knob that came with the guitar.
This is where I am not sure if what I want to do is possible.
The existing middle single coil I am not replacing or coil tapping. I want to keep it as is. I will need to know how to wire it however.
In the bridge I want to coil-split the humbucker with the default position being the knob depressed and keeping it as a humbucker and pulling it up changing it to a single coil. However I want to eliminate the existing tone control and replace it with the bridge pickups’ own the push / pull volume knob.
On one of my guitars there is a humbucker in the neck and a humbucker in the bridge. I rewired it to where the tone knob was converted to it being the neck pickup’s own volume knob.
1. Can this whole adventure be done ?
2. If this can be done, how would I wire the middle pickup ? Mainly I just have the bridge humbucker active when I am playing something with a lot of gain. Mostly metal / rock. But clean I use the neck and middle pickups. For me a clean humbucker in the neck and a single coil in the middle both active is sweet as sugar. Especially with a nice reverb, delay or chorus.
3. If I have come this far I might as well throw in a switchable treble bleed with a slider switch for the bridge pickup only which I’ll install on the back cover plate.
This one guitar will basically be able to give me any tone that I want to dial in. As it stands right now it already has an external Roland GK-3 midi pickup.
Thanks for reading this very long post. I wanted to be as precise as possible in explaining what I am looking to do.
What I want to do is to put a single coil sized humbucker in the neck and coil-split it where when the knob is kept down it’s a humbucker and when pulled up it is a single coil. And of course this would go to the 1 new push / pull volume knob which I install to eliminate the stock volume knob that came with the guitar.
This is where I am not sure if what I want to do is possible.
The existing middle single coil I am not replacing or coil tapping. I want to keep it as is. I will need to know how to wire it however.
In the bridge I want to coil-split the humbucker with the default position being the knob depressed and keeping it as a humbucker and pulling it up changing it to a single coil. However I want to eliminate the existing tone control and replace it with the bridge pickups’ own the push / pull volume knob.
On one of my guitars there is a humbucker in the neck and a humbucker in the bridge. I rewired it to where the tone knob was converted to it being the neck pickup’s own volume knob.
1. Can this whole adventure be done ?
2. If this can be done, how would I wire the middle pickup ? Mainly I just have the bridge humbucker active when I am playing something with a lot of gain. Mostly metal / rock. But clean I use the neck and middle pickups. For me a clean humbucker in the neck and a single coil in the middle both active is sweet as sugar. Especially with a nice reverb, delay or chorus.
3. If I have come this far I might as well throw in a switchable treble bleed with a slider switch for the bridge pickup only which I’ll install on the back cover plate.
This one guitar will basically be able to give me any tone that I want to dial in. As it stands right now it already has an external Roland GK-3 midi pickup.
Thanks for reading this very long post. I wanted to be as precise as possible in explaining what I am looking to do.