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Would it be ok to mix cap values between the 2 pick-ups?

Sure, go ahead and experiment!

Looks ok.

Try a smaller cap (like you suggested earlier). If the pickup sound has more bass and less treble, a smaller cap might work.

Try 0.33 or even 0.1.

Weird.

If you could sketch a wiring diagram for us, it would be helpful.

No change but here's my thought, the neck pick-up is a SD pearly gates model while the bridge is a SD dimebucker. The bridge is much hotter then the neck, could it be that I require a different value cap for the bridge because it is so much hotter?

Nah, the characteristics of the tone control depends solely on the values of the cap and the pot. It should sound the same for all pickups.

Has it ever worked before?

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Did you check the capacitor connected to the pot?

Yep, and there was a dog too (or wolf).

The robot's name was Soundwave, by the way. I mixed him up with the 'good' tape recorder, Blaster, who was a nerd.

Robots in desguise

By absolute fav was Soundblaster. You know, the one that turned into a tape recorder.

Cool, gotta try it on my strat then...

What exactly can I expect from wiring coil tapped pickups through parallel/series?

Normally, pickups are wired in parallell. A humbucker is like two sc-pickups wired in series. Sounds cool when the two coils lie close to each other. Although I'm not sure that wiring two or more coils far from each other in series will sound good. You might get some weird cancellation effects.

Try it.

I wouldn't do that, the magnetron magnet would probably realign your pickup magnets and destroy the humbucking in the case of humbuckers and who knows what else in the case of single coils!

You're right. That sounds like a bad idea. Would definitely kill (or severely harm) the pickups.

It feels like anything non-magnetic would work. Never tested it though...

Let us know what you find out asm, allright?

Im aiming for a kind of "The Darkness" distorsion sound.

In my opinion, the only way to get that sound is to use the following

• a Les Paul
  
• a Marshall.
  

You've got one of the two, good. To compensate for your lack of a Les Paul, an eq might be a good option. Is your Marshall a master-volume amp? If so, I'd go for an eq instead of a distortion.

Distortion + cheap single coil pickups = noise.

Most likely, the pickups are causing the problem. Have you tried it with another guitar (preferrably a one with humbuckers)?

If the noise stops when you turn the guitar it's more likely that the pickups or the cables are causing the problem. What guitar do you use? Are your cables ok?

The volume pot should be logarithmic and the tone pots should be linear. The tone pots only affect the middle and neck pickups (on a regular strat, don't know much about humbucker versions...).

Log pots are often marked with a 'B' somwhere (like B10k), and linear ones with an 'A' (A10k).