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Pretty nifty:

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For those of you not bothered enough to watch the vids, it basically involves removing one coil's worth of polepiece screws, yielding a hum-free singlecoil-style sound with a little more balls.

Kinda makes me wish I had a guitar I could do this on, a nice way to get more tonez for recording and such.

Love the big charismatic American guy, had to switch the mopey grunge kid off.

How does this differ from a coil split circuit?

Scott Grove is a champ. I now want a humbucking guitar to do this. Maybe a decked out "player's" Ibanez with flat radius or something.

Ben79 wrote:Love the big charismatic American guy, had to switch the mopey grunge kid off.

How does this differ from a coil split circuit?

No mods needed. And a coil split would take the second coil's windings out of the circuit meaning you get all that cycle hum and less balls. This way all the windings are still in the circuit. I've never played on coil splits and been impressed. Always too quiet and thin.

And it doesn't actually eliminate the second coil from the circuit, hence why it's still hum-cancelling.

Scott Grove is a top guy, he has some really interesting ideas and attitudes backed up by a whole career of professional playing.

edit: DAMN YOUR EDITING EYES, GEORGE

Bah, you just beat me to my edit.

Its very similar to having a dummy coil in a strat for humcancelling.

what is the output for pickups grove used?

Interesting, might give this a go with my old Matsumoku Washburn.

Mages wrote:what is the output for pickups grove used?

Alas, my past-internet multimeter is being repaired at the mo.

He says Gibson dirty fingers, so 16k I think.

You need a pretty high output bucker for this to sound good, as with splitting.

paul_ wrote:You need a pretty high output bucker for this to sound good, as with splitting.

ah ok, yeah that's what I was wondering.

That is pretty awesome, it's funny cause as soon as he said it takes 2 minutes and makes it sound like a tele I knew exactly what the mod would be, yet I never considered it before. I will probably try this at some point down the road if I even find myself with a Humbucker guitar I don't get along with

I couldn't tell much difference with the Mustang but the Gibson was effective and i agree it sounds better than weedy coil splitting. Keeping the hum cancel is neat too.

isn't that essentially what the noiseless fender pickups are?

a dead single-coil with an active coil and 500k or 1meg pots.

SKC Willie wrote:isn't that essentially what the noiseless fender pickups are?

a dead single-coil with an active coil and 500k or 1meg pots.

Yep, and P100s by Gibson.
GFS also make some stacked dummy coil Strat/Tele pickups of a slightly different design.