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I was checking out Lace Sensors web site. Some of the pickups seem to have unusual rules, such as the Transensor (not intended to be used in tandem with other pickups). I got to wondering. How can I tell if a humbucker is open to out of phase/ parallel modifications? The Lace Sensor Dually can be used as humbuckers or split and used individually. Can it also be wired to be out of phase or parallel (to itself, not with other pickups)? Thanks for any / all help.

I like Myka's setup. Ditch the master volume and it's exactly what I'd like to do. Is it difficult to wire the volumes to decouple like that? Thanks, fellas. It is excellent to find a forum where people actually respond to the question instead of arguing about syntax etc.

Searched for Myka and Rosewood and Myka's Rosewood, but got naff. Got a link?

Aw crap. I was hoping to use blend pots to mix in any amount of the unselected pickups, thereby creating the pickup combinations that seem absent. Guess that won't work since a blender can only mix two signals.. Back to the drawing board on that one. The plan was: select bridge, then blend in a spot of neck and a bunch of middle... or whatever combination seemed most interesting. I'll find a way. Yes, all of the mods that I can squeeze in will be present for 70% just to try it and 30% just to do it. I've never actually heard these things in action, so I don't know which ones will be really useful for my sound and which ones will be wastes of effort. I'll find out eventually, I suppose, and delete the excess. Hmmmm. Maybe get rid of the pickup selector and use a volume knob for each pickup... would make for shitty pickup switching... but maybe I could mix the seperate pickups that way? The idea is to get away from the standard strat pickup selecting. With the middle/neck or middle/bridge positions, I've always wanted to be able to mess with the volumes of the two pickups. Keep the cut of the bridge, but dial in a splash of the neck, etc. The idea is also to have as many interesting sounds available as possible, without killing the guitar, while at the same time keeping it as simple as possible to navigate. You know, the usual quandary. I'll find a way.

In your opinion, is an external preamp more to be desired than an internal one? The reason I ask is that I am worried that the number of things I'm sending the signal through is going to kill it. Does a concentric pot that is wired for 2 different purposes have the same resistance (negative affect on tone), or worse or better, than a normal pot or a push/pull? I've read that using 1M pots helps; do you find this to be true? Here is what I'm planning: 3 pickups (two humbuckers and a single coil.... all passive) 3-way selector, varitone, master volume, and each pickup to its own seperate blend/tone concentric pot 2 humbuckers also through one rotary switch each (for parallel, phase, and coil split)

GregP: tell me more about active pickups. I'd read a blip that mentioned something about the pickup having a preamp of some kind... is that configurable? Or is it set up at the factory or something? Couldn't find any documentation detailing what they can DO... just a bunch of installation crapola. Enlighten me, please! Jnewman: Thanks a bunch! I want to see about using this concept for my neck pickup. I'm ordering a body and neck from Warmoth tomorrow, so I've got at least another month to figure out the finer details. Thanks for the words.

Thanks for the info! Guess I'll just scrap the tbx+no load on top of a blender. A regular tone that tops out with 'no load' seems like it would be the simplest solution. Is it possible to wire a tone knob to increase treble INSTEAD of bass response? Another query: What do you think of varitones? A friend advised that they "thin" the sound somewhat. Yet I thought different capacitors would occasion different results... thin, thick, etc. I'm going for broke and giving this guy's 12-position varitone a try: http://alexplorer.net/guitar/mods/varitone.html I think it's quite over-the-top, but it would at least be useful to try out bunches of different capacitors and weed out the "bad" ones. (bad being subjective, of course)

Hello, folks. I've got a question concerning concentric pot potential. Hope someone can enlighten me! Basically, I want to wire a concentric pot so that the bottom portion is a TBX tone that, when dialed up to the 10 position, cuts the circuit out creating "no load" tone. Is it possible to do this? Thanks for your time.