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strat humbuckers and wiring

voxpop · 2005-12-04 16:41:30

Im seriously thinking about putting a humbucker in the bridge position of my strat. Ive sort of narrowed it down to either a little '59 or cool rails (im thinking hot rails might be overkill). Anyone got any experience/comments with the above . Also im not sure if i need to up the resistance to 500k for the humbucker or…

04-12-2005 4:41pm

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Im seriously thinking about putting a humbucker in the bridge position of my strat. Ive sort of narrowed it down to either a little '59 or cool rails (im thinking hot rails might be overkill). Anyone got any experience/comments with the above . Also im not sure if i need to up the resistance to 500k for the humbucker or whether 250k will work, im thinking stick with 250k and up it if the humbucker sounds too muddy ?
I was also thinking of replacing the last tone pot with a push/pull pot and then use the dial as a coil-split blender and use the push/pull switch as a bridge pickup on/off switch.

Anyway any comments apprieciated.

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#2 04-12-2005 5:13pm

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i put a JB JNR in the bridge position of my strat and i have to say it sounds awesome!

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054849069

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#3 04-12-2005 6:03pm

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well i was looking at the jb jnr but alot of ppl complained about the high mids, i was also thinking it might be a little too hot compaired to the other single coils ?

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#4 04-12-2005 6:13pm

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it is... but that's because they're single coils.. what are you expecting from a humbucker?

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#5 05-12-2005 10:49am

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I want something that will add a bit of kick to the strat but not completly change its character.

Btw did you keep you pots as standard 250k ones ? Is there a big volume difference between the jb jnr and the single coils ?

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#6 05-12-2005 5:23pm

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there is a noticable difference in volume with regards to the clean sounds, but not with distortion, all pots remain the same.

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