HSS Strat Wiring Tutorial 

Thanks for posting this… I made the same mistake!

OMG I just did that! LOL

Hey have you ever tried doing a hsh config? I’m kinda new to all this stuff and I wanted to build my own guitar

I definitely agree

Do you have a sound demo?

no worries Miles, it is a tricky circuit to get right so I hope the video helps you in your project. Have fun with it!

@@SixStringSupplies thanks for your input which is appreciated , but what about the same wiring with a simple 2 wire humbucker ?? thanks John

That’s great to hear - might have to do a video on that too.

@Chris Mahoney ....very good.... lots of tone choice. I made it for my Daughter. I put it into a 1996 Squire (YN6*) with some AP VooDoo pups.

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thats the configuration youd get if you didnt have the coil split.....

Thanks Adrian. Yeah it’s always tempting!

Thanks for the feedback - have moved on from numbering switch lugs as everyone has different numbers in their head. Have a great Christmas 🎅

Hi Alfredo, I'm a Newbie when I switch to single coil and humbucker combined selection, I lose volume is that because of the polarities. I also have Fender single coil and Seymour Duncan humbucker. When you changed the black hot wire with the green what do you do with the black hot wire. thanks in advance.

@@vasco2109 Hi, there will always be a difference in volume when combining single coils and humbuckers, a remedy to this is to use hotter single coils or colder humbuckers. This is a fairly complicated circuit so when I wrote this comment I got confused and all I did by swapping the wires was to make the polarity of the pickups the same so I actually eliminated the hum cancelling feature of RWRP (Reverse Winding Reverse Polarity pickups), but if you want a more in depth explanaiton of why that happened I invite you to read the following information I took from Seymour Duncan´s official page: Every pickup coil has two properties that affect how they will sound when they are combined with others. These properties are called phase and polarity. Phase is the direction current travels through the pickup, and polarity is the direction of the magnetic field. With both properties, there are only two options. Phase can either be “top coming” or “top going”, and polarity can either be “south” or “north.” A typical application of these principles is with single coil pickups. One interesting property of single coils is that depending on their phase and polarity, it may be possible for them to be hum cancelling when combined. Modern Fender guitars are typically wired in such a way. The key to a strong, full tone with hum cancelling is to combine single coil pickups that have both opposite phase and opposite polarity. If one pickup is north polarity, top going, the other must be south polarity, top coming. This is why most Strat middle pickups and Tele neck pickups are what is known as reverse wind, reverse polarity, or RWRP for short. With a RWRP middle pickup in a Strat, for example, you will get hum cancelling in positions 2 and 4 on a 5-way switch. Humbuckers all operate on this principle. The two coils have opposite wind and opposite polarity. When combined, you get a fat, meaty tone and no hum. Splitting a humbucker will, of course, bring back the hum so when combining Seymour Duncan "single coils" and Fender single coils you have to have in mind that Seymour’s regular pickups are equivalent to Fender’s RWRP, and vise versa so you will get a hum cancelling effect It all started when Seymour decided to base his single coils on the original Fender single coils from the 1950’s, which were south, top going. At some point in the 60’s, Fender decided to change their single coils to be north, top coming. The most common reason for two single coils to be out of phase is that one of them is wired backwards. The lead that was supposed to be connected to ground is connected to the output, and vise versa. If you get phase cancellation when combining two single coils, the easiest cure is to swap the lead wires on one of them (not both, or you will just have the same problem). Bottom line: if you want two coils to be in phase and hum cancelling, you will need one of them - and only one of them - to be RWRP.

@@alfredoabrego3474 thank you Alfredo very informative

Glad it was helpful!

Do you have sound demo?

Thanks! Yes we do...

That’s very kind of you to say so. With difficulty 😂 it’s a simple setup consisting of an iPhone mounted onto a tripod and hoping my hands don’t block the view for the viewer. Thanks for watching

Thanks - yes it does, this setup has an auto split for the humbucker

I'm perplexed by this as well... if you put both the coil taps on one switch pol and the hot on one switch pole how the heck is it splitting the coils?

You dont need the Trick if you Use 2 Volume if you wire it up smartly.

Smart Question! That wiring would throw of most Guitar players. Good for you, hope it works out.

hes using a super switch