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Post subject: Re: Wiring help
Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2015 10:45 am
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N3s are stacked humbuckers, therefore they use a 4-conductor cable allowing coil tap and split operations.

In your place I would put a Seymour Duncan Hot Rails in the central slot to obtain a proper HHH setup while maintaining the HSH look. Two full-sized humbuckers in the neck & bridge and a single coil-sized rail humbucker in the middle.

If you find the hot rails too hot for your taste use either a Lil '59 or a JB Jr.

Here's another HHH wiring diagram for three full sized humbucker, hope it might help you a lot:

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Post subject: Re: Wiring help
Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2015 2:16 pm
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53magnatone wrote:
Bear in mind that chromeface's diagram illustrates 3 HB's which is better than an HSH since a single coil requires a 250k pot whereas your HB's need 500k . that makes it problematical when blending pups.
With HB's and single to dual coil options, all your tones and Vol pots are in the same K range and it won't sound like the middle coil is anemic...

Sorry for hijacking the thread a bit, but just trying to learn here...

The Phostenics diagrams I linked to seem to use 500K pots with S-1/500K, Fender seems to use any combinations (even a 500K/1meg combo) on their HSS's, Squiers usually have 500K pots with single coils...
Since the S-1 is available in both 250K ad 500K, what would be the "best" combination to a HSH (and would it be different from a HSS, and why)?

(As the IMHO part: for me, "overly bright" is seldom an issue since the tone knob easily cures it, "muddy" is harder to cure even with greasebuckets, treble bleeds or akimods.)


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Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2015 9:17 am
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I suppose it would depend on what single coil your using in the HSH and if the Humbuckers are gonna be hooked to both tone pots, e.g for independent coil splits. If your using the average single coil, such as Fat 50's then you will have to use a 250k pot or you will end up with a bright sound, which as you said can be altered with a tone pot, however you could use a stacked humbucker such as an N3 to use all 500k pots, or you could use a neck and bridge tone control as opposed to a neck and middle tone control, this would mean that only the humbuckers of the HSH would touch the tone pots giving an average sound.

A HSS would differ as if you wanted a coil split then one tone pot (or the volume pot if you don't want an S1 Switch) would have to be a 500k pot in the volume or tone positions. One advantage would be that you could have the volume pot a 500k push/ pull pot to split the humbucker (or an average 500k pot if you want an auto split on the 5-way switch) and the tone pots could be 250k to service both the single coils.

I hope that makes sense.

BTW does anybody know someone who could create a wiring diagram for the features I outlined in my first post. If you do then it would be highly appreciated.


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