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The Pickup Place / Re: Reply Help me choose next pickup HSH set.

« Last post by KH Guitar Freak on April 24, 2025, 02:29:26 AM »

Plenty of great choices to be had. I personally own a Tone Zone/HS2/Air Norton combination with a push pull coil split. Works great

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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!

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The Pickup Place / Re: Which Pickup Features Which Technique

« Last post by nienturi on April 17, 2025, 01:53:42 AM »

36th Anniversary PAF Bridge (DP-223) - Airbucker

May i request an update please?
PAF 36th has Virtual Vintage tech, too.

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The Pickup Place / My Dimarzio PAF 36th Anniversary DP223 Review

« Last post by nienturi on April 12, 2025, 05:14:38 AM »

Hello,

This is my Dimarzio PAF 36th Anniversary DP223 Review. Hope you like it

https://www.tonejourney.com/post/dimarzio-paf-36th-anniversary-dp223-review

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The Pickup Place / Re: Reply Help me choose next pickup HSH set.

« Last post by gregr on March 31, 2025, 09:42:34 PM »

Nice switching ideas, thanks for sharing.

Thanks. I like yours as well.

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The Pickup Place / Re: Reply Help me choose next pickup HSH set.

« Last post by darkbluemurder on March 31, 2025, 04:13:52 AM »

I also find that position 2 quack sounds better when splitting to the outer coil.

Agreed. It has just that little bit of extra glass compared to the inner coil.

My HSH is The Breed Neck in the bridge

Great choice.

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.

Nice switching ideas, thanks for sharing.

Cheers Stephan

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The Pickup Place / Re: Reply Help me choose next pickup HSH set.

« Last post by greekdude on March 30, 2025, 09:06:28 AM »

Hi again,
I think I will transfer the existing EMG 85/S/81 over to the new one, maybe. And just put an old FLEOR-loaded (similar to WAAAH), single coil alnicos, and just reassess.
Or just wait to get the guitar in my hands, and see !

thank you guys!

@gregr it is great that you commented in favor of some duncan pups, just proves that this forum is truly exceptional . I will have everything in mind!

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The Pickup Place / Re: Reply Help me choose next pickup HSH set.

« Last post by gregr on March 28, 2025, 12:53:41 PM »

I haven’t found a better split coil sound than a JB. I also find that position 2 quack sounds better when splitting to the outer coil.

My HSH is The Breed Neck in the bridge with a PAF Pro in the neck and a Fast Track 1 in the middle. 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.

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The Pickup Place / Re: Reply Help me choose next pickup HSH set.

« Last post by greekdude on March 27, 2025, 01:02:49 PM »

Great suggestions I'll keep coming back to this thread as the thing progresses!

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The Pickup Place / Re: Reply Help me choose next pickup HSH set.

« Last post by darkbluemurder on March 27, 2025, 05:36:44 AM »

The only HSH I ever set up for myself had a Bluesbucker in the neck, an Injector neck (permanently wired as single coil) in the middle and first a Norton in the bridge, then a SD Custom 5 and finally (and my favorite in this guitar) a Mo' Joe. 500k pots (master volume, neck tone, bridge tone) and a Schaller/Eyb Megaswitch type E which gave me

1 - bridge HB
2 - split bridge neckside coil + middle, humcancelling
3 - split bridge bridgeside coil + split neck, humcancelling
4 - split neck neckside coil + middle, humcancelling
5 - neck HB

I later wired the neck tone pot as auto split for the neck humbucker so that I could also have the neck single coil (of course not humcancelling but the split Bluesbucker sounds excellent).

Very simple but still versatile set up. There is a more detailed thread on that guitar (you will find it when you search for threads I started).

Cheers Stephan