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.