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    Default How do you wire a pickup for parallel without a switch?

    Gibson humbucker.

    Sorry for the noob question... I guess I could goggle it.

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    Default Re: How do you wire a pickup for parallel without a switch?

    http://www.seymourduncan.com/images/...501005-110.pdf

    Basically, instead of hooking one coil's "ground" to the other one's "hot" and using the remaining leads as one circuit's hot/ground, you are hooking up each coil's hot/ground separately to the lead. So you're planning on bypassing the switch to tone/volume controls?

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    Default Re: How do you wire a pickup for parallel without a switch?

    That made my brain hurt.

    So move the twisted ground to the actual ground and twist both hots to the switch??

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    Default Re: How do you wire a pickup for parallel without a switch?

    I don't really dig parallel setups. The invader sounds decent with it, but in my mind if you want that kind of sound you should just get a full shred or something.

    it's kind of an inbetween humbucker-single coil sound thats nothing like a P-90.
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    Default Re: How do you wire a pickup for parallel without a switch?

    I had a Tone Zone S wired in parallel in the middle and neck positions of my guitar and I liked it. It was like a tough-sounding Strat pickup. I may again do this.

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    Thanks guys.

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