Just solder any 4-wire pickup to the small PCB and connect that one to your normal pots.
Would probably work pretty well with P-rails.
Linky
Pickup ring with series/parallel/split switches included
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Pickup ring with series/parallel/split switches included
Clever product idea. A pup ring with two small switches for series/parallel or split functions.
Just solder any 4-wire pickup to the small PCB and connect that one to your normal pots.
Would probably work pretty well with P-rails.
Linky
Just solder any 4-wire pickup to the small PCB and connect that one to your normal pots.
Would probably work pretty well with P-rails.
Linky
$30 each or $50 for the pair. kind of pricy. but I think it's pretty much worth it.
Push the two switches towards each other for standard series wiring; away from each other for parallel wiring; and both towards one coil (either one) to shut that coil off.
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Fluff, lint and hair will jam-up those funny little switches. Sweat will get in and rust that sucker solid.
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good pointDoog wrote:I guess you could orientate it so the switches are next to the thin rather than thick E string?finboy wrote:could prove useful for a sustainer project i want to finish up, though hitting the switches with a pick could be a problem
it says it is set up to switch between splitting/series/etc. does that mean the switches could be turned into on/off switches? if so i am sold
REVIEW!
so I got this a while back and I've had it on my Ibanez for a while now. pretty darn useful. I got the one for the bridge pickup as I'm pretty happy with the neck humbucker tone. So here's my impressions of them thus far.
There are some settings that work for me and some that don't. I find just the coil cut by themselves to be pretty useless. the individual coils sound way to weak and this pickup buzzes super loud (like way louder than yr average single coil) when on the single coils. BUT! the parallel option, now that is really cool. it basically sounds like the single coils by themselves but not quite so weak and it's fully humbucking. parallel is like on a strat in the 2 and 4 positions. it cuts the lows slightly giving you a more jangly sound. I have it switched to that almost all the time now. but if I want the normal full humbucker sound I can easily switch it back.
Specifically about the switches. For the most part they stay well out of the way but sometimes you may accidentally hit one. kind of like most switches on your guitar. you can switch them between series and parallel (requires switching both switches either in towards each other or out away from each other) pretty quickly but probably not mid riff like you can with some pickup selector switches. about the durability, they seem like they'll be able to take the sweat, dust and dirt fine enough. the open part next to the switch tip is covered just like on a jag switch, nothing can get down in there.
so I think they are well worth it, if only to experiment with the settings for a while to see how you like it best so you could wire it like that permanently. the only thing I wish it had was some kind of phase switching. it would be cool to be able to switch the phase of the individual coils for even more sounds.
so I got this a while back and I've had it on my Ibanez for a while now. pretty darn useful. I got the one for the bridge pickup as I'm pretty happy with the neck humbucker tone. So here's my impressions of them thus far.
There are some settings that work for me and some that don't. I find just the coil cut by themselves to be pretty useless. the individual coils sound way to weak and this pickup buzzes super loud (like way louder than yr average single coil) when on the single coils. BUT! the parallel option, now that is really cool. it basically sounds like the single coils by themselves but not quite so weak and it's fully humbucking. parallel is like on a strat in the 2 and 4 positions. it cuts the lows slightly giving you a more jangly sound. I have it switched to that almost all the time now. but if I want the normal full humbucker sound I can easily switch it back.
Specifically about the switches. For the most part they stay well out of the way but sometimes you may accidentally hit one. kind of like most switches on your guitar. you can switch them between series and parallel (requires switching both switches either in towards each other or out away from each other) pretty quickly but probably not mid riff like you can with some pickup selector switches. about the durability, they seem like they'll be able to take the sweat, dust and dirt fine enough. the open part next to the switch tip is covered just like on a jag switch, nothing can get down in there.
so I think they are well worth it, if only to experiment with the settings for a while to see how you like it best so you could wire it like that permanently. the only thing I wish it had was some kind of phase switching. it would be cool to be able to switch the phase of the individual coils for even more sounds.
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