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1051
The EP1111 switch is designed to work with two humbuckers and have the following selections (aka John Petrucci wiring):

#1 bridge humbucker
#2 bridge + neck inner coils in parallel
#3 neck humbucker

It is not designed to work with three pickups, even though there may be possibilities to make that work.

You could use that switch to control the outside humbuckers and use the push pull pot to add the middle pickup.

With one push-pull pot it is not possible to split all three humbuckers - you would need a push-pull pot that has nine pins (I only know of pots that have six).

Which pickup combinations are the most important for you? That would help to design a wiring schematic.

Cheers Stephan

1052
The Pickup Place / Re: Neck Humbucker trick for removing mud/boom
« on: May 26, 2015, 04:36:34 AM »
I removed the screws for the 4th, 5th and 6th strings on the neck pickup. This works indeed as Ray described. I then replaced the screw for the 4th string since the 4th string is usually the one with the weakest output, and I liked that even better. I had no problem in getting a good string to string balance, and the screw coil still works well when used in split mode. Great mod.

Once again many thanks to Ray for posting this.

Cheers Stephan 

1053
The Pickup Place / Re: Neck Humbucker trick for removing mud/boom
« on: May 21, 2015, 06:57:00 AM »
in last few weeks, I wanted to try something 'new'.
so I ended up bid and won a Bill Lawrence pickup (the real one, Wilde's Bill).
and surprisingly, it's the best solution for me in regards of muddy neck pickup on 24.75" scale with 22 frets guitar.

Which Bill Lawrence pickup? There are quite many (L-500, L-90, L-600, L-610), and each in different inductance values. For neck pickups I have tried the L-500R, the L-500C and the L-90 2H. I liked the L-500R. It still has a boomy low end which is partly due to the huge output this pickup has. The L-500C is better in that regard. I was not impressed at all by the L-90. The real issue with the L-500 in the neck spot is that most pickup cavities are to shallow for it to fit.

Cheers Stephan

1054
The Pickup Place / Re: Neck Humbucker trick for removing mud/boom
« on: May 20, 2015, 03:41:30 AM »
Thanks Ray for sharing this. I need to try this sometime soon.

Cheers Stephan

1055
The Pickup Place / Re: Breed Bridge in Les Paul
« on: May 20, 2015, 03:29:36 AM »
Unfortunately not. I only tried the Breed Neck in the bridge position.

Cheers Stephan

1056
The Pickup Place / Re: PRS Custom 24 SE spacing?
« on: May 15, 2015, 07:43:16 AM »
Don't know about SE but the US trem equipped models are fine with standard spaced pickups.

Cheers Stephan

1057
Just to clarify: H-S is not more powerful than H-S-S with the same bridge and neck pickups. It is just a simpler set up making the most use of the best properties for each type of pickup for a specific position. A humbucker is good in the bridge position because in series mode the signals that both coils pickup are added, therefore giving higher output and a bit more compression. In the neck spot however you have more string vibration so a pickup with a narrower field (e.g. a single coil or a single coil sized rail humbucker) cancels fewer high frequencies which are needed for clarity in the neck position.

H-S-S offers the same benefits insofar but there is no middle pickup to get in the way.

Cheers Stephan

1058
If you don't have a use for the #2 and #4 positions consider a H-S set up (one bridge humbucker  and one  neck single coil). More oomph at the bridge where it's needed and more clarity in the neck where it is needed, too - really the best of both worlds. I could imagine that Air Zone and Satch Track would be a great combination.

Stacked is not a bad design in itself. There are better stacked designs with respect to the goal to make the pickup humcancelling and still have it sound like a single coil. Since that is not what you want, a rail design may suit you better. 

Cheers Stephan

1059
The Pickup Place / Re: Pair for chopper
« on: May 11, 2015, 01:25:57 PM »
I am in a similar situation at the moment. Currently I have (from bridge to neck) Chopper - Area 58 - Area 67 and considering to change the Areas to Cruisers - mainly because I find the Chopper too tame with the 250k pots in that guitar. The problem is that the Areas tend to get shrill with 500k pots.

If you want a high gain sound out of a 2203 without pedals the Chopper in the bridge may not be enough. In that case you might indeed like it better in the neck spot and go for something hotter in the bridge, e.g. the Super Distortion S, Tone Zone S or Pro Track. No experience with any of these, though so hopefully someone else will chime in.

Cheers Stephan

1060
The Pickup Place / Re: HSS rock pickups for hi gain and QUACK!
« on: May 11, 2015, 03:13:22 AM »
Neck pickup: Injector neck would do what you want. I would also use that for the middle position. Up to now my experience with the Cruisers is rather limited - I used one briefly in my Tele, liked it but replaced it with the Di Marzio Minibucker (DP-240) which I prefer.

Bridge: I don't have any experience with the Norton but the AT-1 would also do what you want.

One of my strats has a very similar set up - Bareknuckle Holydiver, Injector neck in the middle and Virtual Vintage Heavy Blues 2 in the neck, with 500k pots for volume and tone.

Cheers Stephan

1061
The Pickup Place / Re: Chopper - Cruiser - Cruiser in a Strat
« on: May 10, 2015, 11:57:32 AM »
Finally scored a neck model on the bay after having been outbid four times. We will see how the conversion works.

Cheers Stephan

1062
The Pickup Place / Re: DM Area T + Bill Lawrence L-500
« on: May 10, 2015, 11:55:08 AM »
The white wire is the series link. Put it to ground you run the pickup as a single coil.

Cheers Stephan

1063
Matt put it well.

Slugworth, I really was not questioning your guitar wiring abilities - sorry if it came across that way.

Cheers Stephan

1064
From the suggestions given AZ and two Injector necks would be a good combo, especially since you plan to use them with a 500k volume pot. Keep in mind though that the Injector neck still sounds very much strat like and provides good quack with the 500k volume pot - the Injectors are designed for that and to keep up in volume with a stronger bridge pickup and 500k volume pot(s).

Of all the other options listed I only have experience with the Chopper, and that only in the bridge. My gut feeling says it is not really suited for the middle position but then I do not play much on the middle alone and use it mostly in combination with bridge or neck. I would try something brighter there, e.g. FT-1 or Satch Track. Neck position - also FT-1 or Satch Track.

Cheers Stephan

1065
It is quite hard for me to imagine how one could accidentally wire a pickup in parallel instead of series since it's a totally different wiring scheme. To me it would be more likely that the series linkage was not insulated properly or the insulation of one wire was damaged and touched a ground connection somewhere thereby making the pickup operate as single coil. Of course that would also have manifested in producing much more hum. If the hum level was the same my guess is it was defect in some unknown way.

I had only limited experience with the AT-1 (just about half an hour noodling on an Ibanez AT-100 in a store) but I did not hear anything bright and airy in it - loud, fat, rich in the mids and singing is as I would describe it.

Cheers Stephan

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