Humbucker Splitting Preferences

[velorush]

I just received an email that my replacement Rio Buffalo Bucker is ready and I should have it before the weekend!

I plan to wire it with a push-pull switch on the tone control to allow for coil splitting, but which coil?

1. Anyone have a preference on which coils to remain active in this situation (two-humbucker configuration)?

It seems logical that the slug coil would be the better choice in the bridge position due to the greater string movement. Could the slug coil be the better choice in the neck position for the opposite reason?

2. Another option I am curious about is, rather than grounding the opposite coil completely, using the switch to place a resistor in series to ground with the coil, thereby simply reducing the output of the secondary coil. This was pitched as a "PRS method" of doing that (I have no idea if that is true). Anyone with any experience doing that concept?

Stuff like this can keep me soldering for an entire week listening to various nuances. It usually ends when I grow bored or weary (rather than finding the optimal solution).

[murkat]

why not both?

easy to do to select any coil...

[hamerhead]

Could you use Triple Shot rings until you find the combination you like, then hard-wire it?

[veatch]

"Check out the big brain on Hamerhead..."

I mean, that's a great idea!

FWIW - I like having a setting for a "wide bucker". Screws on the bridge and slugs on the neck - in series.

Mr Greg turned me on to that. One of my favorite sounds.

[hamerhead]

HEY! My brain's not that big!

....oh wait......

[murkat]

this works very well

http://www.guitarelectronics.com/c=f4ouut9Wmb3Wk8I98lJKvYDy4/product/PMT-HCP/HCP-Humbucker-Control-Pot-w-Coil-Filters.html

[velorush]

If my previous experience with the P-Rails / Triple Shots taught me anything it was that I (I, mind you) can have too many options. Having every option under the sun in all their permutations and combinations - in theory - appealed greatly to me, but in practice I ended up spending too much playing time with, "I wonder what that lick would sound like with this combination," going on ad nauseum (actually, ad nauseum is a good description of my playing in general).

Really enjoying simplicity again in that guitar. Hamerhead's (aka, Cerebrum Grande) suggestion of experimenting using triple shots is a good one. I might just wire up some jumpers to clip onto the leads and accomplish the same thing (fo' free!).

Veatch, did you accomplish the wide-bucker setting with a super switch, or did you (or Greg) wire it up some other way (and yes I'm being lazy, not thinking this through right now)?

I was just curious if anyone had any particular coil preferences for this sort of thing.

[gtone]

Split coil humbuckers are for pussies!

Sorry - had to say it, as BCR Greg doesn't post much anymore...

[veatch]

Veatch, did you accomplish the wide-bucker setting with a super switch, or did you (or Greg) wire it up some other way (and yes I'm being lazy, not thinking this through right now)?

In my case, it was the HSH and he pulled the middle pup in for the wide bucker via a mini switch. Simple and effective.

I modded a beater HH guiter with 2 push-pulls - one to tap both pups and the other to change the center pos in the toggle from parallel to series (don't connect the output posts together at the toggle, send both outs to the series/parallel push-pull).

The megaswitch would be a better way to go. The way i did it on the HH, there were positions that ddn't sound too good, but the wide bucker was still cool and very usable.

[velorush]

Of course, there's always this (aka the "Jimmy Page" switch):

But too many choices makes for a confused boy!

Of course, Jay's suggestion has even more possibilities!