Unusual pickup combinations...
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Kac
Hootersologist
Re: Unusual pickup combinations...
Mine is kind of unusual...
HS configuration on a fender strat
Push/pull pot for pick-up selection, so you get the bridge Humbucker, or the neck single coil.
George Lynch also uses this configuration is some of his custom shop ESP's
Rock On :smoker:
Mine is kind of unusual...
HS configuration on a fender strat
Push/pull pot for pick-up selection, so you get the bridge Humbucker, or the neck single coil.
George Lynch also uses this configuration is some of his custom shop ESP's
Rock On :smoker:
Boston Joe
New member
Re: Unusual pickup combinations...
On an old scalloped 70's Strat, I installed a Hot Rail in the bridge, a Dimarzio/Jem HS-2 in the middle and an HS-3 in the neck... The HS-2 is out of phase with the HS-3 resulting in a nice Brain May tone in the 4th position when using gain. The second position results in a punchy Dire Straits sound. The HS-2 is hooked up to a tone pot that 's used to turn off one of the coils for single coil mode (though I may change that and hook up the HS-3 instead) I intend to wire the Hot Rail in series/parallel.
On another old Strat, an HS-3 and HS-2 in the bridge and neck respectively is hooked up to a push/pull pot to split the coils. An old Squier single coil (large ceramic magent) is in the middle for some nice Tele/Strat tones.
And in an old Squier, a '74 Strat pickup in the bridge and a '79 pickup up in the neck with a Squier RWRP pickup in the middle--very unique but vintage tones (Beatles, Knopfler, Hendrix...)
Hope that helps.
On an old scalloped 70's Strat, I installed a Hot Rail in the bridge, a Dimarzio/Jem HS-2 in the middle and an HS-3 in the neck... The HS-2 is out of phase with the HS-3 resulting in a nice Brain May tone in the 4th position when using gain. The second position results in a punchy Dire Straits sound. The HS-2 is hooked up to a tone pot that 's used to turn off one of the coils for single coil mode (though I may change that and hook up the HS-3 instead) I intend to wire the Hot Rail in series/parallel.
On another old Strat, an HS-3 and HS-2 in the bridge and neck respectively is hooked up to a push/pull pot to split the coils. An old Squier single coil (large ceramic magent) is in the middle for some nice Tele/Strat tones.
And in an old Squier, a '74 Strat pickup in the bridge and a '79 pickup up in the neck with a Squier RWRP pickup in the middle--very unique but vintage tones (Beatles, Knopfler, Hendrix...)
Hope that helps.
Artie
Peaveyologist
Re: Unusual pickup combinations...
I don't have anything real unusual. Just my HSS Genny, wired with a push/pull to "tap" both QP's, and another to connect them in series. Then I swapped the neck and middle hot wires to the 5-way so I could get the traditional neck/bridge sound.
I thought that was an original idea, 'til I discovered it, yesterday, in Seymour's Q & A . . . #123. :laugh2:
I don't have anything real unusual. Just my HSS Genny, wired with a push/pull to "tap" both QP's, and another to connect them in series. Then I swapped the neck and middle hot wires to the 5-way so I could get the traditional neck/bridge sound.
I thought that was an original idea, 'til I discovered it, yesterday, in Seymour's Q & A . . . #123. :laugh2:
