invisibledemon Posted February 22, 2009 Report Share Posted February 22, 2009 looking for some info on what the advantages or disadvantages would be of each. looking to get a set of q-tuners in the near future, and it says to specify id you want 2 wire or 4 wire. dont really know the answer, lol. its the BL-4 set that im going to get. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psw Posted February 22, 2009 Report Share Posted February 22, 2009 They are an interesting design...I will be interested to know what you think of them. I have heard the epoxy case can crack so be careful adjusting all those poles . If you are familiar with normal HB 4 wire pickups, that's what I would get. This allows possible split coil, series parallel and other tricks down the track. Even if you not planing that now, connecting the two coils in series by joining two of the wires gives you the same effect as a two wire...ask which two should be joined to avoid confusion. pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Marossy Posted February 22, 2009 Report Share Posted February 22, 2009 I think 4-wire humbucking pickups are generally the way way to go as they give you the most options when it comes to wiring them. You don't have to use all of the available options, but it's nice to have the option to use them sometime later down the road. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisibledemon Posted February 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2009 where can i find info on different ways to wire them and the advantages? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Marossy Posted February 23, 2009 Report Share Posted February 23, 2009 where can i find info on different ways to wire them and the advantages? This is a good start here: http://www.guitarnuts.com/wiring/howitallworks.php And here: http://www.guitarnuts.com/wiring/menu.php And here: http://www.guitarnuts.com/wiring/factory.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisibledemon Posted February 27, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2009 was wondering if it would be good to wire them as two seperate entities. basically a volume knob, tone, and a switch to change form single coil to dual coil for each humbucker. possible? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anderekel Posted February 28, 2009 Report Share Posted February 28, 2009 A seperate tone and volume and coil tap for each pickup is very possible. On one of my guitars (both guitars are two humbucker) I have switches that have full hum, single coil, and phase. On another one I coil tap with a push pull on each volume knob. The push/pull's are cool cause it doesn't look like there's anything out of the ordinary. On one I'm gonna be building soon in a class I'm gonna do the wiring scheme that David Myka recently did on a build, minus the cap switching. It's got all sorts of fun stuff in it, coil taps, phasing, series, parallel, pretty much anything you'd need. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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