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One important caveat: The ribbon connector between the two PCBs on the Triple Shot is extremely vulnerable at the ends. It cannot withstand rough handling.
In my opinion, with regular humbuckers, access to every possible coil permutation is undesirable. Too many of them sound the same. Wiser, perhaps, to decide on half a dozen usable combinations and access them via a Freeway 3x3-03 toggle selector switch.
We used them on a recent Feline Lion to good effect, as the Push pull pots were being used for other functions
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To me it'd make more sense to have one of the little switches be split or not, and the other be hot or not. So in split mode the second switch gives you rail or 90, and in bucker mode the second switch gives you series or parallel.
It's perfectly doable but needs dual-pole switches, which presumably would have cost about 2p more each.
Many guitars have a re-sale value. Some you'll never want to sell.
Stockist of: Earvana & Graphtech nuts, Faber Tonepros & Gotoh hardware, Fatcat bridges. Highwood Saddles.
Pickups from BKP, Oil City & Monty's pickups.
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That is handy because combining the inside coils of two humbuckers, in phase, in parallel, will only get you some of the way to a *proper* Fender sound.
To my enfeebled brain, it makes more sense if, in the single coil modes, the micro switches are both pushed towards the coil that I wish to use.
Thinking of the series mode as *switches together* and the parallel mode as *switches apart* is analogous to how the coils are being connected.
On my P-Rails-equiped guitar, the master tone pot pulls up for phase reversal of one pickup with respect to the other. If I had used a push-pull volume pot, it would have linked the two pickups together in series.
Everything that the Duncan Triple Shot surround micro switches offer can be achieved with push-pull pots. On guitars with two control pots, the mode switching governs both pickups simultaneously. On guitars with four pots, the mode can be determined per pickup. Schematic diagrams are available on the SD website.
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Not to my brain while trying to work the things, but I can at least understand that when it's written down.
Good though, if you can remember what all the positions mean without looking at a chart/tapping pole pieces.