07-11-2012, 08:25 PM
(07-11-2012, 10:23 AM)Mr Clock Wrote: I,ve been doing a bit of digging. Series/parallel/out of phase wiring of pickups is basicly about changing tone. With series wiring of PU's it seems you loose some high frequencys as the longer connection acts as a resistor. Most guitars are wired in parallel-pretty standard sound more due to the PU's position-neck/mid/bridge. Out of phase wiring. I,ve watched videos on Utube etc,and I,m not certain of its benefits. It can lead to to a weak sound.
On the bumf that came with my Enwistle PU's,it has a partial phasing option. Using a DPDT SW most out of phase-ing is done with two jumpers in an X shape from pole 1- 6 and pole 2-5. (six poles on a DPT SW-read 1 left top etc as one would read a book) Partial phasing uses a cap 0.002 from pole 1-6 so a Humbucker say would be partialy out of phase with its self. Without popping this setup on a scope,my maths/formula brain is unable to compute.
Back to my OP. I said I,d heard Brian May talk about OOP guitar pickups. Hope fully here is a link that shows how he wired his guitar. He does it with complex switchery.I,ll say this-my head hurts! 21 options,far too complex for me. I,ll try a few options in the following days and report back.
http://www.treblebooster.com/brian_may_pickup_mod.htm and check out http://www.diyguitarmods.com/guitar-pickups.php
Hi there, in that link to the brian may pickup mod shown above it states that the strat's pickups are wired in parallel, first I've heard of that, I don't think they are wired in parallel as standard, surely they are all selectable, that's the idea of having several pickups. That article is not written very well.
Lawrence.
