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The Pickup Place / is my 5 way switch fubar?

« on: April 23, 2020, 05:50:18 PM »

So a trick I learned a long time ago is to put an ohm meter on the end of the guitar cable and go thru the toggle to learn the ohm rating for the pickups with volume maxed out - helpful in troubleshooting etc.  You will see like 17k, 5k, 5k, 5k, 13k on a 5 way with decently hot pickups that auto split in 2 and 4 and a single in middle.

So I have an older guitar HSH with a 5 way and Paf pro, unknown single, paf pro.  When I do the ohm trick, bridge shows 515k, then 4k, 5k, 4k, and then 512k at neck.  What in the world?  I went through all other gutiars and they give PROPER readings, ie, the kohm rating of their installed pickups.

Why would this guitar show 500k+ at neck and bridge, isntead of the 8-10k they should report for PAF's??

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The Pickup Place / help again with noise cancelling suhr ssv plus ibanez s1

« on: September 29, 2019, 11:13:03 PM »

rg550 with a fender 5 way.  dominion neck, ibanez s1 middle single coil, suhr ssv bridge.

Every position is perfect but the one combining the bridge and middle.  it is not hum cancelling but the position combing neck and middle is.   phase is good, its just not hum cancelling when bridge+mid are on.

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The Pickup Place / Duncan Parallel Axis Distortion Fast Track 1

« on: February 12, 2019, 10:30:22 PM »

Back again with an issue I can't solve. 
USA Jackson SL1 using a super switch. 
Bridge is a PATB-2 Duncan distortion parallel axis HB.
Middle is a Fast Track 1.  Using the attached diagram.

The first go round was using the attached diagram but switching the wires for Duncan code, of course.  This made the top coil hot when split.

The second go around was wiring Duncan red hot, white ground, black & green split.  This made bottom coil hot when split.

No matter what, I cannot get position #4 (split bridge and split middle) to be hum cancelling.

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The Pickup Place / Positions 2 and 4 with H S H.

« on: January 30, 2019, 12:01:18 AM »

New to forum, hello. 

I have been totally hit or miss on this and would love to hear from the collective knowledge of the forum to help me understand this phenomenon and why sometimes I win and sometimes I lose.

GUITAR:

Any HSH guitar with a 5 way toggle (NOT super switch, only CRL USA or OAK 5 way blade 8 lug) and humbuckers in neck and bridge and a true single coil in middle.

ISSUE:  Sometimes 2 and 4 are no noise.  Sometimes 2 and 4 are pure noise.  Sometimes only 2 is noisy  and 4 sounds good, sometimes 2 is quiet and weak and 4 is good, etc.  Clearly there has to be a match with middle single coil and the humbuckers and I am struggling to nail this formula?

I have ONE GUITAR that works perfectly and its a 1990 RG550 with a PAF PRO neck, ISCV2 middle and Megadrive bridge wired to a 5 way CRL USA using a diagram from amazing tech staff of dimarzio. 

I have another guitar that has AIR NORTON bridge and neck and some "guitar fetish" single coil and only position 2 is hum free while position 4 is noise.

I have another guitar with Gibson pickups in neck and bridge and some other random true single coil  in middle and the position 2 is super weak and thin but number 4 sounds good.

Is an 'RWRP' pickup needed in the middle in order to make 2 and 4 quiet?  What is the "formula" and does anyone know of an inexpensive single coil wired the right way from factory to stick into the middle of my guitars that have issues in 2 or 4 or both?

Please help me to understand this formula and what I am doing wrong with the dang middle single coils?  I never use the pickup by itself, i just love the 2 and 4 sounds under mega high gain.  thanks, sorry for long post