Single Coil Pickups In Series (Humbucker Mode) Demo 

Glad I've modded my partscaster with her pups in series like Brian May, not finished yet but that sounds a lot less anaemic than parallel. Cheers man.

Excellent demo, series sounds great in clean tone

The best video I've seen on topic. I would like to be interested in parallel wiring that you have used. Can you leave me the scheme??? Thanks!!

Excellent demo! I definitely would like to see more of the wiring in parallel.

You play and explain very well. Thank you!

I'd love to do this to my Charvel DK24. The first time I heard the Ibanez AZ Tom Quayle signature, which has the switching standard, I knew I wanted it. Great video, thanks.

Great video, very helpful.

Thanks for this video Paul! I'm gonna modify my old Aria Pro II CS-250 (an SG copy from the 80's) - gonna replace the humbuckers for some Mojo humbucker sized Goldfoil Pickups and I'm gonna add an series/parallel switch and an In phase/out of phase switch like on the Fender Baja Telecaster. It's gonna be a real slide machine!

Great playing great information

Here is one of my latest videos. Ever wondered what single coils in series sound like?

Greetings Paul! Health and strength! Thx for your good works and Blessings you give! Plz, make a very close up vid, ( coz my eyes are not to sharp seeing any more) from the way how to wire a little switch device on a strat to get activate the tele sound and all three pickups (7way tone). Im too much ready with my Iron, led, switch device. tools etc. But couldnt find any video here in the RU-vid that was close enough for me to see and understand to way how to just step by step do it. Thanks for your presents and keep uP the good works Bro! 1blessed Love. Bless

cool! Helpful! Thanks!

Hey Pau! I really like the way this sounds and have been contemplating on doing it for a while. The guitar I have is a 97 Olympic white squire protone with the Seymour Duncan ssl 1 in the neck, ssl 1 (rw) in the middle, and ssl 5 in the bridge. It's currently wired with the tone 1 controlling the neck and middle pickups. And the tone 2 for the bridge specifically. It's a dual capacitor (.022uf) set up and the tone pots are wired in parallel. How would I go about wiring it to have the option of the neck and middle pickups in series with a push pull pot while keeping the existing wiring the same (without adding any toggle switches or having a blender pot)? Also, can this wiring design have the option for a treble bleed circuit? At some point I may switch out the ssl 5 for a JB jr or the hotrails depending on how the series wiring sounds. I've had the hotrails before and it is a very nice pickup...as well as the ssl combinations. Since there are two tones wired in parallel. Can I use a push pull pot in the tone 1 position, as only want to use the neck and middle pickups for the series?

Man that sounds awesome! Has a fatter sound to it! Like it a lot! Guess you need a push pull switch and do a little rewiring? Btw, love your playing...going from the chords into leads. I'm definitely gonna work on that!

very nice

Thank you so much

Hey Paul, really great video, thx! I’d like to ask you, would it be possible to use 1 push-pull switch and normal 5 way selector and wire strat so that in both 2. and 4. positions would be parallel/series - depending on the pp switch position? If that’s possible, would you mind sharing schematic? I’d really like to try it.. thank you!

Great Video I'd definitely be interested in wiring parallel thanks

*Thanks thanks for the info*

Thank you. This is the demo I've been looking for. In all honesty, I have to prefer the standard, parallel sound as it maintains the 'transparency and clarity' associated with the Strat I've heard on countless recordings over a 50 year period. I own a Gibson 335 and when I want a Humbucker tone it's perfect but, owning 2 Strats, the 335 will never do that devine 'jangle' chord sound. I appreciate I'd still have my standard Strat tones with the mod, but the *wiring and soldering effort involved in series transforming isn't worth my time*. I was just curious, and your video was perfect for me. Good job, mate.

Not many demos around, but a lot of people say 2 single coils in series sounds "muddy." I think that may be because Strats have 250k ohm volume pots. Humbuckers usually use 500k. Lower resistance lets a little more of the high frequencies cross to ground. So higher resistance on humbuckers gives it a bit more treble bite. A single coil with 500k sounds too bright. A humbucker with 250k sounds too dull - or "muddy" - and there, we're back to the beginning of having two coils in series sounding "muddy" on a 250k pot.

This is what I was looking for. My pickups seem to be too bright. Series wiring should do the trick. Thank you

Brilliant. Every Strat should have this. Would put the Strat/Les Paul debate to rest. Plan on doing this on my Yamaha Pacifica with a P90 in the bridge. Do you have a wiring diagram available?

can you do this with te bridge and middle pickup too?

would it work to have a push-pull that basically give me a humbucker tone in my SSS strat? i want the bridge n middle to be in series so it's basically a humbucker, or middle n neck. would that be possible? i love my new strat, but i'm all about versatility and sometimes i need humbucker growl! thanks, very cool vid :)

cool 👍👍🤘🤘

great video, thx. I have a slightly different question. I own a Godin lgx III with 3 duckbuckers. Can I apply the same principal on bridge and middle. Note the duckbuckers I have are the old generation with 3 wires and wired internaly in paralel? Please give me advice.

Can you use a treble bleed cap to help retain high end?

U didn't use any effects pedal right?

Did him post the 2 part explaining that?

I have a Jim Root Telecaster with EMG 81/ 60. Can I do a series connection of both pickups?

If I would put the bridge single coil and middle single coil pickups from a strat next to each other (basically ducktape them together) and wire them in series I would get a normal humbucker, right?

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Thx for the vid! BTW, are you an Aussie? :)

You can really play

Diagram?

Humbuckers are wired in parallel

Bosan