Updated H-S-H dual wiring + phase/coil select? Wiring gurus please.

[orangecountycarl]

http://www.danieleturani.com/howto-and-diy/guitar-pickups-wiring-hsh-configuration-autosplit-and-push-pull-coil-tap/

This page shows how to use a Superswitch E+ to do this:


position 1: bridge pickup
position 2: bridge pickup split + middle
position 3: bridge + neck
position 4: midlle + neck split
position 5: neck

...but with the additional push/pull switch you split everything so it's closer to a Strat:


position 1: bridge pickup split
position 2: bridge pickup split + middle
position 3: bridge split + neck split
position 4: midlle + neck split
position 5: neck split

The last piece of the puzzle is:

*** How do you add the phase switch to select the coil on the rear pickup?***

IMO, the screw coil will yield better quack with the middle pickup, but the slug coil sounds better by itself.
Wiring gurus? Artie? Anybody who knows how to do this has my utmost respect as a true GURU. :notworthy Please and thank you!

 

[orangecountycarl]

Re: Updated H-S-H dual wiring + phase/coil select? Wiring gurus please.

Ok, I think if I take the hot and ground from the rear pickup to a phase switch on the right like this:

http://www.seymourduncan.com/support/wiring-diagrams/schematics.php?schematic=phase_switch_coil_split_hb

...and then take the hot from the phase switch and rout it to lugs 8 & 9 on the pickup selector switch here:

http://www.danieleturani.com/wp-content/uploads/super-switch-wiring.jpg

with the remaining ground wire from the phase switch going to ground on a pot....I should be able to choose the coil on the bridge pickup, correct?

 

[DarthWombat]

Re: Updated H-S-H dual wiring + phase/coil select? Wiring gurus please.

G'day...

I've done a similar mod on my Godin Freeway-SA HSH, but I found I could only get noise cancellation with the middle pickup using the slug coils on either of the split humbuckers. I wanted to use the adjustable coils combined with the middle, but it was just too noisy.

Only one of the two coils will give you a full in-phase sound with the single-coil middle pickup. You probably found that the polarity of your middle pickup determined which coil you could combine it with noiselessly.

I have ordered a pair of Seymour Duncan humbuckers (TB-4 & SH-2) and I have to decide whether to use the neck or middle (RW/RP) version of the STK-S4 for the middle one depending on whether I want to combine it (also split) with the slug or adjustable coils on the bridge/neck.

You posted a few months back, so let me know how you got on with your mods. I've also ordeed a four-pole superswitch to play with.

Cheers,

Alex.