Thank you so much! Here is Squishy looking at her guitar next to her brother’s. Notice the backpack she’s wearing, it has a life support machine in it. Yet she is still such a sweet little girl. ua-cam.com/users/shortsto_o4L2V-lg?si=_ZgR0SPeXohKdlbh
In a metal application I can’t see how you’d need any more than three pickup sounds live Bridge wide open Neck wide open And this middle position combo for cleans of course you can get fatter cleans in the neck if you needed. This is a cool way to wire a 2 HB guitar.
Thanks for this great video and interesting solution to the problem. I have a couple questions now. The general consensus seems to be that splitting a humbucker this way, that is leaving one coil hanging from the hot with the other conductor disconnected, may lead to more noise vs traditional splitting by shunting one coil to ground as the inactive coil can act as an antenna. What is your take on this? Did you experience any noise problem with this wiring?
@@PersevenX7 totally valid point! What I do to avoid that problem is shield everything extra good and solder a ground wire directly from the electronics (usually a pot where the bridge ground is) and then solder it directly to the copper foil. I use copper tape but you can get the aluminum tape at harbor freight and it works almost as good. You can’t solder a wire to aluminum tape, but you can stick a small piece of copper tape to the aluminum tape and solder to the copper and you will still have continuity. If you use shielding paint use 3 coats minimum and make sure you stir it very well. I use both and you can’t solder to the paint but the copper foil trick still works with paint. If you are totally nuts you can paint the holes drilled for the wires to go through with pipe cleaners and then overlap where it comes out with the foil tape. Don’t forget to shield your cavity cover too. Now, if you want a great single coil sound with no hum and can dedicate a push pull pot per pickup (say that 10 times fast) you can wire each humbucker series/parallel. I have a video on that coming out soon. That was a lot of information so if you have questions I’m here to help.
Great question, and like all great questions it isn’t that simple. You have to ground out the series link and that would be different for the outer coil so you would need to rework the entire wiring diagram. This is an interesting idea though. I’ll give it some thought and perhaps do it in the future.
Dude that swirl you did came out freaking sick!
Thank you so much! Here is Squishy looking at her guitar next to her brother’s. Notice the backpack she’s wearing, it has a life support machine in it.
Yet she is still such a sweet little girl.
ua-cam.com/users/shortsto_o4L2V-lg?si=_ZgR0SPeXohKdlbh
I still remember our conversation about humbucker. Also, don't have any experience with soldering, you make it look easy.
It took a lot of practice to make it look easy.
This is a great way to wire up a 3 way, im going to have to try this myself on something thankyou for the inspiration :)
Absolutely, that’s my goal so I appreciate you letting me know you like it.
In a metal application I can’t see how you’d need any more than three pickup sounds live
Bridge wide open
Neck wide open
And this middle position combo for cleans of course you can get fatter cleans in the neck if you needed.
This is a cool way to wire a 2 HB guitar.
That’s pretty much what I was thinking, and you are correct! This setup really fucking rocks!
Thanks for this great video and interesting solution to the problem.
I have a couple questions now.
The general consensus seems to be that splitting a humbucker this way, that is leaving one coil hanging from the hot with the other conductor disconnected, may lead to more noise vs traditional splitting by shunting one coil to ground as the inactive coil can act as an antenna.
What is your take on this?
Did you experience any noise problem with this wiring?
@@PersevenX7 totally valid point! What I do to avoid that problem is shield everything extra good and solder a ground wire directly from the electronics (usually a pot where the bridge ground is) and then solder it directly to the copper foil.
I use copper tape but you can get the aluminum tape at harbor freight and it works almost as good. You can’t solder a wire to aluminum tape, but you can stick a small piece of copper tape to the aluminum tape and solder to the copper and you will still have continuity.
If you use shielding paint use 3 coats minimum and make sure you stir it very well. I use both and you can’t solder to the paint but the copper foil trick still works with paint.
If you are totally nuts you can paint the holes drilled for the wires to go through with pipe cleaners and then overlap where it comes out with the foil tape.
Don’t forget to shield your cavity cover too.
Now, if you want a great single coil sound with no hum and can dedicate a push pull pot per pickup (say that 10 times fast) you can wire each humbucker series/parallel. I have a video on that coming out soon.
That was a lot of information so if you have questions I’m here to help.
That is exactly what I was looking for, thanks for the clarification!
Cool❤
Thanks!
If you wanted the center switch position to be the outer coils on each pickup would you just swap the two start wires for each pickup?
Great question, and like all great questions it isn’t that simple. You have to ground out the series link and that would be different for the outer coil so you would need to rework the entire wiring diagram.
This is an interesting idea though. I’ll give it some thought and perhaps do it in the future.