Parallel wiring

[deeaa]

https://youtu.be/UKCZysmWQ6I

I am changing the wiring on all my guitars with neck buckers to this - basically like strat 2nd position, twin singles.

Works great for me, now I can probably ditch an OD pedal as I can go from pretty clean to OD by switching pickups only.

Here everything is full volume, never change anything but pickup switch, but if I also lower the neck pup volume, I can get an even more exaggerated difference, going from almost strong acoustic style sound straight to OD.

Sent from my SM-A125F using Tapatalk

[Robert]

Terve Dee, long time no see. Sounds good.

Nice axe!

[deeaa]

Thanks...it's one of my vees. Fell in love with the classic '58 shape.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20210708/d2ee352f2e5ac953c31553f28a055751.jpg

Sent from my SM-A125F using Tapatalk

[marnold]

Hey deeaa! Good to hear from you again. I used parallel wiring on my old single humbucker Fender Showmaster Celtic (which I wish I never would have sold). It added a lot of flexibility. With that pickup--a Fender Atomic--it sounded great, much like your recording. I also tried it with the Lace Hot Gold I had at the bridge of my Squier 51. It was the bridge version so it was hot and dark: 26K resistance. With that pickup parallel wiring sounded like crap. I thought I had accidentally gotten them out of phase with each other, but I didn't. I ended up switching it back to coil splitting.

Another nice feature of doing it this way rather than coil splitting is that it remains fully humbucking.