wiring possibilities for 2 hums and a push/pull pot

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eviltobz

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I've got a set of 2 p-rails and associated triple shots that I'm intending to eventually go into a guitar I plan to build from scratch. As someone with very little woodworking experience and less spare time, I expect this project to take a while, so I thought I might try to give the pups a run before I get to it.

I have a Washburn N3 - Nuno Bettencourt style 2 humbucker super strat with Stephens' Extended Cutaway of win, but multiple bits of wood for the body and cheaper stock pups than the N4. It is hooked up with a single volume pot that has a push/pull coil split which the triple shots would be handling (along with all the rest), so I'm after ideas as to what I could set up my switch to do instead. The things that spring to mind are a phase switch or putting the different pups into parallel/series. Any other ideas that I've missed (ok, I didn't suggest a volume kill switch, but nor do I want one) or suggestions as to which of the possiblities would be better? Any links to audio examples of such switching in action so I can hear the difference for myself?

Oh, and I'm aware of the turning p-rails around for better rail tones concept, so I fully expect some sarcastic comments suggesting I try that ;)

Cheers guys.
 
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Re: wiring possibilities for 2 hums and a push/pull pot

ok
heres what I did
in my RG2
two hums - triple shots and a Five way four pole Super switch

funk fingers here suggested t

the switch does

bridge
bridge + neck / in series -phase reversed
bridge + neck / in parallel - normal wiring
bridge + neck / in series - one big humbucker
neck

the triple shots doe everything else
some forty some-odd combinations

no push pull required
 
Re: wiring possibilities for 2 hums and a push/pull pot

Nice setup :) As this is going to have to fit into my current guitar's control scheme it's not really suitable for me though as I need to fit it in with my les-paulish 3 position toggle and the push pull, so I only really have the series/parallel or phase options. I may have to consider it for my fully custom build's wiring though. I was planning a blend pot to adjust the mix of both pups, but that sounds pretty cool too.

Ehd, which do you prefer out of the supergiant series humbucker and the phase reversed mode?
 
Re: wiring possibilities for 2 hums and a push/pull pot

cheers for the suggestion. sadly, trying to read that made my eyes bleed ;) the fact that there are some mentions of a diagram that i couldn't see probably didn't help. it seems that it's about selecting different coils when 2 pups are selected though, which is control that i think my triple shots would give me. i'm fully prepared to be educated in how very wrong that assumption is :)
 
Re: wiring possibilities for 2 hums and a push/pull pot

The triple shots with a three way will give you options for combining the pickups (or individual coils) in parallel. The coil swap gives you neck slug + bridge screw (or bridge slug + neck screw) in series. And actually I'm not sure how you'd combine the triple shots with the coil swap. Could be that a series/parallel switch would give you the same end result.
 
Re: wiring possibilities for 2 hums and a push/pull pot

Meh, I spent a big chunk of yesterday getting things sorted and sticking my p-rails into the n3 only to find that the pup cavities are very shallow and can barely take the original pups, let alone a slightly taller pup with a bunch of extra stuff attached to the bottom, so it's back to stock now. oh well, it was good soldering practice and I sorted out a burr in the floyd's action, so it wasn't completely wasted time I suppose :/
 
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