Brian Austin

Hi pete, thanks very much for your rely and it does make sense! You are right about the Tele like sound on position 4....even though at present it has much less volume than the other postions. I might have a go at switching the wires around and see how it sounds I can always swap them back I guess! Thanks, Brian.

Hi Everyone, Last night I was installing some Tonerider pickups in a Strat type guitar of mine that has an S/S/H arrangement with a 5 way switch. I put a pair of City Limits (single coils) in the neck & mid positions with a Generator (humbucker) in the bridge, and wired it all up as per the enclosed instructions to match a Tonerider/Fender RWRP mid pickup. I also put an on/on mini-toggle switch in to split the coils on the Generator. I am a little bit confused about a couple of things though: 1. When split, it is the neck facing coil of the bridge pick up that is cut and not the bridge facing coil. I don’t know if this is normal or not but when I have split dual humbucker guitars in the past with an on/on mini-toggle it is always the outer two coils that are cut. 2. As I expected with this set up, the neck & mid positions by themselves are not noise cancelling (although position 2 - the neck-mid is position is). However, when I select position 4 (with the mid and the humbucker split - bridge facing coil on) it is noise cancelling but the sound is very trebly, weak & low in volume. In the same position (4) with the humbucker not split, it is no longer noise cancelling but still thin & very trebly! It sounds to me like maybe I have wired it up incorrectly and made position 4 out of phase with the bridge humbucker, although I did follow the supplied wiring diagram correctly and reversed the live and the earth wires of the humbucker to match the RWRP mid position single coil. I guess if it is out of phase then that would explain the low volume & thin trebly sound. Have any of you guys had a similar problem? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Brian.

Hello Everone, thanks for all your replies and advice. I will have a go at the cap values suggested and post the results soon afterwards. Thanks, Brian.

Hi Guys, I have been reading a great book that some of you may have heard of called "How to make your own electric guitar & Bass" by Dennis Waring & David Raymond. On page 82 of my copy there is a little article on how make a tuned capacitor tap to try and get a better single coil sound out of a coil tapped Humbucker. This is done by increasing the bass by way of substituting the earth wire of the mini switch with a capacitor and a resistor in parallel, however they really don't tell you what value capacitor to use. Has anybody tried this mod and if so, could they please tell me what value capacitor they used and whether of not it improved the single coil sound of their guitar? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks, Brian.