4 conducter WB Gregwinds and a 5-Way - WWYD?

[cynic]

Looking for recommendations for most useful configuration of 2 hums and a 5-way using 1V/1T (picture a Tally).

80% or more of my playing is neck only, and I don't really "need" more than a 3-way, but I'm curious to hear what I could do to expand the palate.

Alternatively, should I consider concentric pots and go all of the above with 2V/2T?

Not looking for anything requiring push/pull-push/push.

Current thinking is standard 3-way options in position 1-3-5 with 2 & 4 being single coil.

Inner coil vs outer coil?

As mentioned in the title, I'll be using WB Gregwinds, so if anyone has experience specific to splitting them I'd love hearing it.

Thanks!

[atquinn]

1 neck humbucker
2 outer coil of neck humbucker
3 both humbuckers
4 outer coil of neck humbucker and inner coil of bridge humbucker
5. Bridge humbucker


This is what Suhr does. You'll need a superswitch and you should also wire it so the single coil positions are "seeing" 250k pots instead of 500k. Finally, position 4 could also just be the bridge split if that sounded better/more useful to you.
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Austin

[murkat]

^ yup yup.

I have done similar for Shark and LOTT on there super strat types.

[rj2858]

you should also wire it so the single coil positions are "seeing" 250k pots instead of 500k.

Austin

Can you 'splain this to me? Makes a ton of sense, so you'd get a true (or truer) single coil tone, but how is this done?

Thanks, RJ

[Bobby Marshall]

Ancient Chinese secret.

[gorch]

1. neck humbucker coils in parallel, should offer a creamy lead sound.

2. neck humbucker

3. neck and bridge humbuckers in parallel

4. bridge humbucker

Once I had tried out almost any combination wiring humbuckers with a set of DP100s on a terminal block. Those were the most useful. Unlike single coils and P90s, humbuckers seem not so wire model friendly.

[rj2858]

Ancient Chinese secret.

When I want some Calgon, you'll know wise ass!

[atquinn]

you should also wire it so the single coil positions are "seeing" 250k pots instead of 500k.

Austin

Can you 'splain this to me? Makes a ton of sense, so you'd get a true (or truer) single coil tone, but how is this done?

Thanks, RJ

I know less than jack shit about superswitches, but the basic Idea is that you're dealing with pots with 500K resistance. So if you add a 500K resistor in the circuit in parallel, then you end up with 250K resistance. So you hook a resistor up to the superswitch and switch it in in positions 2 and 4 to make the circuit "strat-like". Now the other positions are still seeing 500K so if you do something, like throw in a push-pull switch to split the humbucker in position 5, that split humbucker will still be seeing 500K because the resistance is only controlled by the position of the superswitch (although, you could wire something in to the push-pull, but then you would run into issues in position 4 because you would have an extra 500K resistor in there).

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Austin

[rj2858]

^^^

Ancient Chinese secret, huh?

Thanks for the tip, Austin!

[cynic]

Still looking for ideas as well as a "Diagrams for Dummies" depicting the Suhr 500K/250K trick mentioned above

[The Shark]

^ yup yup.

I have done similar for Shark and LOTT on there super strat types.

It's the shit. Great useful tones.