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Pickup close to the bridge sounds bright (more harmonics and high tones). Similar to a single pickup positioned half way between the two pickups. Provides a humbucking single coil sound, available with some Ibanez Tri-sound switching configurations.īright (more harmonics and high tones) and crisp.įat sound (lots of low tones), with lots of power.įat sound (lots of low tones) with more mid/high and harmonics than a P90, and with lots of power. Standard humbucking pickup arrangement for most high output guitars (PAF, Patent Sticker, Filtertron, Fidelitron, typical humbucker, typical stacked pickup, typical sidewinder pickup). Allows a humbucker pickup to function and sound more like a Stratocaster pickup. Standard single coil arrangement for split coil humbuckers. Standard arrangement for combining pickups. Not normally used, but can be used to make a pair of single coil pickups give high output similar to a humbucker, or a pair of humbucking pickups give very high output. Not normally used, since it can be replicated with separate tone controls. Outputs of pickups 1 and 2 to guitar output. Output of pickup 1 connected to ground through a capacitor. Output of pickup 2 connected to ground through a capacitor.
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Both ends of pickup 1 optionally grounded. Both ends of pickup 2 optionally grounded. That is covered in detail further down this page. In such a case, each of the normal combinations is possible with one or both of the pickups being tapped to its reduced number of turns. Note that it is also possible for single pickups to have a coil tap (not a coil split), which allows the pickup to be used with a lower number of wire turns, reducing the power output, and making the pickup produce more high tones and harmonics. The same principles will work even if the pickups have the same polarity, with the exception that humbucking will only apply to out-of-phase wirings, instead of in-phase. For convention reasons, these are shown with the input and output (marked with a +) ends reversed, but in reality, the inputs and outputs are usually beside each other, with only the coils wound in opposing directions. Pickups are presented as having opposite polarity (North facing and South facing). Active pickups are therefore not covered here, and this page is dedicated only to passive pickups. Active circuits may interfere with attempts to combine the pickups, or may require a shared ground. The possibilities will be severely limited when using active pickups, however, as the output from those has already been buffered.
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The principles here apply equally to 2 single coil pickups (such as a Telecaster, 2-pickup Stratocaster, or P90 Les Paul), 2 humbucking pickups (such as a Les Paul), or the two coils of a 4 conductor humbucker pickup (such as a Gibson Burstbucker, Seymour Duncan JB, Seymour Duncan Red Devil, Seymour Duncan Hot Rails, or Seymour Duncan Hot Stack Strat). Different ways to arrange 2 pickups Different ways to arrange 2 pickups