Splitting Three Pickups For Strat

Last Updated on October 5th, 2022

For those of you who are going with a full set of stacks or Lil’ sized humbuckers and would like to still be able to get single-coil sounds – or at least keep that classic Strat ‘quack’ in positions 2 and 4 on your switch – this is an easy way to split all three pickups with only one standard dpdt push/pull pot (or mini-toggle if you prefer – they both wire the same way).
When the switch is down, the pickups are all running in hum-canceling mode. When the switch is up, the pickups are all in single coil mode. In the ‘up’ position, both diagrams essentially turn your guitar back into a single-coil Strat. The advantage of this is that positions 2 and 4 will sound correct, and give you that classic ‘in-between’ sound (and they will be hum-canceling, like they should be).

 

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