I have two builds on the go...
both single pickups (as I'm too tight to buy lots of pickups)
I finished another one recently with a single tele bridge pick up and Ash at
@OilCityPickups suggested a coil tapped Wapping Wharf... so that's what I did...
That's got me thinking what can I do with a really simple layout - one pickup, one vol, one tone...???
I won't lie my builds are pretty basic, as is my ability (I've yet to make a scratch plate - it's next on the list to try) so I can't route a guitar and then put a cap on it etc. as I'm pretty sure I'd mess that right up!
So long story short - any suggestions of alternative wirings?
Or different types of pots, stacked pots? Push Pulls?
Basically what can you do with one pickup?
here's the victims...
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Its not that simple in practice. If it's a humbucker with matched coils the split and parallel settings can sound very similar... but it works well with the right pickup.
A single coil gives you 1 option. You can reverse phase, but with no other pickups it makes no difference.
A tapped single coil gives you 2, full power or a lesser version of that.
A humbucker gives you 5 or 6 switching options without adding anything else. Not all useful though. series in phase, parallel in phase, split to slug coil, split to screw coil, series out of phase, parallel out of phase
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Four coils in one package. So many options, so few of them worth trying.
I reckon all four in series, but one out of phase would be interesting, fer example.
Dimarzio D Activator X, third pot is series/parallel with reverend style bass roll off
It's quite good. I would prefer an out of phase-y type sound but it would be probably be rank if I wired the pickup internally out of phase
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@Sporky + @roberty I'll have a google on all that...
Bass roll-off/contour is the opposite of a tone control. It gradually attenuates the bass through the moment of the pot, rather than the treble
For all of this you'll get the best results from a fairly meaty pickup I think. Medium output plus. But others may disagree
A P-Rails Hot might work nicely.
Just to be clear, I'm certainly not suggesting you should have fewer guitars, that's a bannable offence and rightly so.
(I'd be inclined to say "coil tap", but then you've already tried that. @Funkfingers 's suggestion of an Alegree Chameleon is very interesting, but I've never tried it.)
Yes … but not so well in the middle position.
I have Duncan P-Rails N and P-Rails Hot pickups, in a PRS SE, via Triple Shot mounting surrounds. Less and less do I use the Rail and Parallel options. I find them insipid. Series and P90 modes are fine. Simple coil split wiring would suffice.
I'm not sure that many have anywhere!
The Alegree website product description page includes a third party YouTube video presentation. This combines lengthy exposition, an interview with Mr. Green and a play through of numerous coil permutations. Unfortunately, none of the sounds is captioned or described.
EDIT: Oh yeah also it said you might need to enlarge the cavities as the cables are a bit thicker... as someone who's not capable of doing anything like that, that basically scared me off! Depending on the guitar it can be a bit of a squeeze to get normal-thickness cables through sometimes...