unclej Posted November 17, 2004 Report Share Posted November 17, 2004 a buddy of mine has a fat strat and came to me with this question: is there a mod that can lower the mid range of a humbucker without affecting the hi or low range? and it needs to be passive and not change the single coils. he's already changed his tone pots to volume pots but none of them control just the humbucker. i'm not sure what they all do but that's what he told me. i told him no but then i don't know everything so i thought i'd throw it out to you guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovekraft Posted November 18, 2004 Report Share Posted November 18, 2004 He could use a coil-split, or try a series-parallel switch. Either will make the humbucker sound more like a single-coil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StratDudeDan Posted November 18, 2004 Report Share Posted November 18, 2004 why not wire up a tone circuit specifically for the hb? a lot of the time, i've seen strats with tone pots that control the neck and mid, but the bridge just bybasses it all. that could be changed by simply changing the <neck/mid> tone pot to the bridge tone pot at the switch. if he already has a tone pot for the bridge, then perhaps he just needs to find a happier cap/pot value combination that would reduce the mid/low a bit more, leaving some "scream" to it. you said he has volume for each of his pots, so i'm going to assume that he has zero tone pots altogether. in order to increase the high end on my own sodomized strat, i wired a .022uF cap from the "hot" side of the volume pot to the wiper terminal. the noise went up a wee bit, but as i said, it was a sodomized strat that used two single coils (neck and mid) wired like a parallel humbucker in the bridge and mid position. crazy, but it gave me the punch/drive/high-end "scream" i was looking for. perhaps he could do something similar and just play with the value of the cap until he finds a happy tone. he'll loose some lows in the process, but the mids will be cut along with it, creating a high-pass circuit that'll throw a bit more edge into it. or you could go crazy and make a 3-band parametric EQ centralized around the midrange, then pull the middle, bump the two outsides in order to create a massive dip right there. that would suck and be hard, but hey, it might be a fun project. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclej Posted November 18, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2004 thanks guys..when he comes by today i'll actually find out what the three pots are controlling. my suggestion as well was to free up one and dedicate it to the hb as a tone control. it's his studio guitar and already has some strange things going on in it so we'll see. edited to say: i just received a catalog today from the tamarkin company and may have found just what he needs. they sell a line of pups called shadow and they have a humbucker with a built in 5 band equalizer. the trim pots are on top of the pup. the eq circuit is active but can be switched on or off and can be wired up to eq the other pups on the guitar. it's pretty pricey even at my cost with a suggested retail of $184.50. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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