In my case, there wasn't much room and I didn't have a suitable push/pull POT in my collection, so I added a discrete sliding toggle switch between my existing volume/tone knobs. If you intend to blend the two coils you will need a push/pull pot installed in addition to whatever knobs you already have, so make sure you have the necessary space for whatever new components you'll be adding before you blow the money on parts. You can get a push/pull type potentiometer/switch to replace your volume POT, or you may have to cut a hole in the pick guard to mount a toggle switch. If all you want is to turn your humbuckers into single coils you can pull that off in about 20 minutes with nothing more than a small piece of wire! Adding a switch will be more challenging mostly because you need to find a place to put it.
#Strat single coil vs humbucker mod
In it's simplest form this mod is very easy. This would take advantage of the humbuckers hum cancelling properties as much or as little as required for the current volume/gain settings. Another possibility, would be to use the pickup as "mostly" single coil to get that single coil tone that is often desired, but use the blend control to dial out some of the characteristic hum at higher gain levels. Using a control scheme like this on all of the available pickups would create many tonal variations that can be easily tweaked during a performance.
For example, It is possible to create a single pickup that operates as both a single coil AND humbucker with a control to blend how much of each type of sound is routed through the guitar's controls to the amp. In this instructable, I'll show how I installed a switch to make both of the humbuckers on my guitar operate as single coils at the same time, but I'll also describe some other options in detail. This will give you the tone and dynamics of a single coil (and the hum too) without buying new pickups AND you can go back to humbucker configuration with the flick of a switch! There are a ton of possibilities here to configure different tones on your guitar if you care to experiment. You can use any of these guitars for any darn style you want to.If you have a guitar with dual-coil pickups, or humbuckers, you can easily modify the wiring to allow you to use just one of the coils on each pickup instead of both coils. Hey, remember this is all just my two cents. Otherwise, I'd give it a pass and opt for the vintage-style bridge.Īll that said, surely somebody reading this is yelling at their computer screen because they use a single-coil Strat for jazz or humbuckers for blues. If you really think you'll use it in your playing, go for it.
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