wiring pups???

[dman]

i just bought a vintage rails neck and a cool rails bridge for my fender reissue jag...where can i find wiring diagrams and is there multiple ways that i can wire them?

 

[zionstrat]

Re: wiring pups???

Tons of digrams on the SD site-
Also note that the cool rails can do spin-a-split wiring- Be sure to check that one out- One of the easiest, most versital mods-

 

[dman]

Re: wiring pups???

whats spin a split?

 

[zionstrat]

Re: wiring pups???

It's reduction of one of the coils of a humbucker using a tone or vol control- Incredibly easy to wire if you look at the diagraom-

I have it on my coolrail as on practically every humbucker I own-
Full clockwise gives me both rails on completly just like the pup sounds out of the box-

As you turn the pot down you get less and less of the 2nd rail and it becomes much more like a single coil with some added bass- Of course at some point you loose hum rejection, but my favorite sound on my cool rails is about 85% rolled off and I still get great hum rejection-

Some people 'split' pups which takes the entire 2nd rail out of the loop- No hum cancelation at all, plus you miss all of those shades in between-

My Joe Barden pups are nearly mini-humbuckers when both on full rail (really too thick for me)- But as you roll it off you get every sound in between and I ditched my tone control in favor of spin a split on my zionstrat-
peace

 

[dman]

Re: wiring pups???

sic...i'll try it!