WOW! passive mid boost! by accident! haha

NeroRoxXx

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hey guys, you might remember me for asking alot about doing custom wiring, the funny thing is i went standard on my les paul.

alnico II pro set,
500K CTS audio taper (volumes and tones)
switchcraft jack and toggle
.022mf neck, .015mf bridge for tone

so the only different thing i did was to hardwire the neck pickup out of phase (used the black wire as ground and green as hot)

now the out phase tone is great and since i never used the middle possition (until now) now i have an extra sound on my guitar that's very useful for clean, sounds almost like a very slow phaser it's weird, but anyways

i was messing with some solos in the middle possition and i started to mess with the volume controls to see if the sound changed at all but nothing too useful.

THEN... i tried rolling off the bridge's tone control and all of a sudden i was amazed by the cocked WAH sound!!! the sound was soooooo cool that i started using it for alot of solos!!! it sounds sooooo coool, i will be posting a video with sound to show you guys how cool this is, i'm seriously saying "MID BOOST/COCKED WAH"
 
Re: WOW! passive mid boost! by accident! haha

I took a Dimarzio Tone Zone and wired it in Parallel- it gave me that half cocked wah sound as well
 
Re: WOW! passive mid boost! by accident! haha

Yes, that is great. BTW, that's a really nice looking LP you have there. I don't think I've seen that white-on-white w/ gold hardware combination before, but I like it a lot.
 
Re: WOW! passive mid boost! by accident! haha

Can anyone explain exactly what is happening? This is boggling my mind. The bridge is rolled off, so it should only be mids and bass? And that out of phase with the neck, should cut the mids and bass and leave the treble? Or am I confused?

Please explain :D
 
Re: WOW! passive mid boost! by accident! haha

ok, what's happening is when they are out of phase at the same output, that's when it's at it's thinnest/lowest output. when you roll back one of the volumes, you take away some of that OOP quality since outputs aren't equal anymore, and your volume goes back up. personally i like using a phase and series switch together for the same kind of tone from my SG:)
 
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