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The Pickup Place / Re: Which Pickup Features Which Technique
« Last post by darkbluemurder on April 21, 2025, 08:52:23 AM »Done - thanks!
36th Anniversary PAF Bridge (DP-223) - Airbucker
Nice switching ideas, thanks for sharing.Thanks. I like yours as well.
I also find that position 2 quack sounds better when splitting to the outer coil.
My HSH is The Breed Neck in the bridge
The switching is as follows:
1: bridge
2: middle
3: bridge and neck inner coils connected in series with a passive filter to reduce bass and midrange.
4: middle and neck outer coils; again, connected in series and filtered.
5: neck or neck in parallel with the bridge. There’s a push-pull on the tone control to add the bridge to the neck, which only works in this position.
All positions are hum-cancelling.
If I had a second HSH it would be as follows, borrowing from things I’m already doing in other guitars:
Bridge: JB/Screamin’ Demon hybrid; JB coil on the outside in parallel with the middle for position 2.
Middle: A traditional single coil, perhaps a True Velvet, but that would depend on what magnets I use in the humbuckers. The middle would only get used in positions 2 & 4. Position 3 would combine bridge and neck humbuckers.
Neck: Screamin’ Demon/Full Shred Neck hybrid; Demon coil on the outside in parallel with the middle for position 4.
So so true, and thank you for your fine suggestions.
I will try to feel the guitar in my hands for quite some adequate period and then re-assess !