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Who knows waht the future will bring, individual switches, all hums with coil taps, monkeying with the various series/parallell options. This is simply a pursuit to see what it comes out like, to change the sound without a particular goal with only the knowledge that what it's like now is not what I'm happy with (although it was fine to me a month ago, strange, eh?).

In any event has anyone here tried this little mod I propose?]]> Guitar Players Discussion Narn https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/pickup-swap/#post-79204 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/pickup-swap/#post-79196 Fri, 10 Dec 2004 18:01:10 +0000 Guitar Players Discussion Ricochet https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/pickup-swap/#post-79196 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/pickup-swap/#post-5475 Fri, 10 Dec 2004 15:39:17 +0000
I picked up (no pun intended) a Dean electric with the H/S/S configuration a while ago. Having been an acoustic strictly guy I an now understand why folks get off on these electic things, they're great toys. In any event I love the way the guitar plays, and I like the sound in from the bridge humbucker and the middle single coil. So switch positions (starting from the bottom) 1 to 3, I love. But (ain't there always a "but") the neck position pickup is pitiful. After monkeying around with every setting I can think of I have come to the conclusion that it has to go.

I have been toying with the idea of replacing the neck pickup with a single coil slot dual rail humbucker just to see what happens to the sound. While swaping these out I was also considering re-wiring the middle pickup and switch so that , in positions one to five on the switch (starting from the bottom) I would get humbucker (bridge), dual humbucker (neck and bridge),humbucker (neck), single and humbucker (middle and neck) and single (middle).

The hands on work is not a concern to me as I am familliar with a soldering iron but i am interested in knowing if anyone here used this configuration on a strat / copy? What were the results? I guess, allthings considered, if I do it and don't like it I can always go back ( I love to tinker with stuff).

Any constructive feedback is welcome.]]> Guitar Players Discussion Narn https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/pickup-swap/#post-5475