This is what I've personally found to work best for a med to hot bridge humbucker & lowish output neck (single or HB). Previously many of the inner coil/split combos I tried sounded too weak.
A - neck
B - neck + bridge (part split) in series
C - neck + bridge in parallel
D - bridge (part split)
E - bridge
In the diagram there is no connection for the neck inner coil wires on a 4 conductor humbucker so these would be taped off.
The bridge inner coil connections labelled green/white here can be reversed if things sound too thin or too fat in position D
Uses an Oak Grigsby/Fender super switch, not the Schaller (stock musicman type)
Heres a demo
Guitar has a firebird mini hum in the neck (Winterizer)
and a PAF (Fletcher w unorientated A5)
in the bridge
Comments
1 - neck
2 - neck + parallel bridge
3 - neck + series bridge
4 - parallel bridge
5 - series bridge
I’m not normally a fan of humbuckers in parallel, but this particular one - an Oil City Brassknuckle - sounds good like that.
This also has the advantage that all settings are very effectively hum-cancelling, more than if I’d combined both split pickups.
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1. Bridge
2. Tapped bridge
3. Tapped bridge and neck in parallel
4. Neck
5. Neck and tapped bridge in series.
This is a timely thread because Oil City are making me a pair of Brass Knuckles, and I’m wondering which settings to use. It will be a 5 way superswitch, so many combinations are possible. My first thought is:
1. Bridge
2. Tapped bridge
3. Both tapped in parallel
4. Tapped neck
5. Neck
but then I’m asking myself whether position 3 will use the same coils as 2 and 4.
2nd gen rotary wiring (wired and later PCB variants):
- Position 2: Bridge humbucker with neck singlecoil, in parallel
- Position 3: Bridge and neck humbuckers
- Position 4: Neck singlecoil with bridge singlecoil, in parallel
- Position 5: Neck humbucker