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