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wow scott thats a much simpler setup than what i was thinkin, awesome. can you post a wiring diagram for that please (for a noob who has no clue about wiring)?

thanks for all the ideas btw, mickguard, i agree with you about the looks thing. thats why i like the look of the steve morse ebmm-cause it has a bunch of sexy switches and pickups the only reason i dont go hss (which i agree is pretty damn versatile without a thousand switches) is because the neck humbucker is essential for most of my lead sounds. ill probably be going with my original idea, if only to see which tones work and which ones dont.

a jazz guitarist who uses the pet or the morse? if its the pet, im sorry, i guess i was kinda prejudiced in associating the guitar with the player (to tell you the truth i have never owned the petrucci). i actually was also considering a superswitch+dpdt wiring that would give me 10 humbucking tones. anyway, im looking to experiment with this more than anything. ill look into the superswitch and the tanglewood tomcat some more--but i think hands on experimentation will be the best for figuring this out. thanks sambo

hey sambo thanks for your reply i was also wondering how many of these sounds i would actually use, but even if i end up using only half a dozen of these, it would be a nice way of finding out what all these different things sound like. i totally agree with you about the petrucci-its an incredible guitar overall. i was actually looking at the steve morse model also--all the ebmm guitars are great. but i think the pet is definitely geared toward the dream theater/lte sounds, and more or less only those.

this is WAY over my head, im sorry i cant help you with this. looks like theres a sustainer thread on the first page though, or you could call/email fernandez. good luck

this isnt directly on topic, but i am wondering about some other properties of pots that i jsut dont understand. my first electric guitar might as well have had a toggle switch controlling volume. on the other hand, an ebmm steve morse model that tried out at a store seemed to have unbelievably reponsive volume and tone knobs--i swear i could change the tone by glaring at the knobs hard enough. this isnt really a fair comparison, considering all the other differences in every aspect of the two guitars, but something tells me the main difference here is the pots. so who can tell me what accounts for the difference in the range and sensitivity of a pot, not necessarily the small differences in fidelity, as you guys seem to be talkin about here. while we're at it, what is the difference between audio and linear taper pots? i would like to know what the specs for the most sensitive/usable pot would be. i heard some more sensitive pots sound brighter, but i dont know how this will be a problem as i can just put the pot at 8 or 9 AND still have a wider range of sounds to choose from. thanks

Hi everyone, newbie needing help here (go figure). by the way, great forum, big thank you to whoever hosts this. anyway, i found this cool wiring scheme on guitarelectronics.com, and from what little ive learned about coil splitting and running in parallel/series, it seems very verstile (and complicated ) : http://www.guitarelectronics.com/product/WDUHH3T1103 however, there are some questions i have about this. first, will pickup balance be a big problem? from what i can see, the loudest sound would be from all four coils running in series (4x output of one coil), with the least output being all 4 coils in parallel (1/4x one coil), which gives me one sound that is 16 times louder than another. or does my 8th grade knowledge of basic electronics not apply here? the second question is for those who have experience with this kind of switching. how usable are the parallel sounds? are they kind of quacky (maybe theyre like the strat 2&4 positions, just closer together...) or just a lower output hb sound? if running in parallel wont give me quack, what position do you think would give me that sound? lastly, how much difference can you hear between either split coil in a humbucker? they are positioned right next to each other, and would probably be wound exactly the same, so does it matter which specific coil i use in split mode or is the difference small? if i decide to go with this, ill need alot of help with the actual wiring also, so im pretty lucky i found this forum. thanks everyone