Strat pickup wiring

[RandyW]

I'm replacing the stock clean meek "weak" stock pickup in a HW!.
I have a SCN neck pickup I would like to use with a mid and bridge
Texas special combo.

I figured this should give me an extra clean position along with the other two.
I slapped the new pickups in without any other changes such as caps etc.
Everything sounds good except for position 2 the front and mid combo it sounds
like a lose in volume "possibly out of phase" and very tele twangish. I would be bad except for the lose of volumes it makes it sound like a complete different guitar.

I checked the wiring for SRV strats and it looks like all they use is a .022k cap on one of the tone controls. I'm wondering if I can get by with that or if I will
need something different for the SCN.

Anyone tryed mixing these pickups. The std wiring for a HWi has a couple smaller caps and film resisters in the circuit. I'm comptemplating just getting
rid of the excess components and putting in a .022k cap unless someone has a better ideal.

[Light]

Try switching the black and white wires on the unusual pickup (i.e., the SCN). See if that fixes it. If it is a polarity problem, that will do it. As far as the caps, the single cap in most strats is used for both tone controls. I very much doubt that the problem is in the controls though. Most likely, the SCN is just wired backwards from the Texas Specials.


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[jdier]

if lights suggestion does not work (and since strats come wired rev-phase and rev-polarity in the middle, I do not think that is the problem) head over the www.seymour-duncan.com and hit their forums. Most info and help related to wiring available on the net.

[Light]

Originally Posted by jdier

if lights suggestion does not work (and since strats come wired rev-phase and rev-polarity in the middle, I do not think that is the problem) head over the www.seymour-duncan.com and hit their forums. Most info and help related to wiring available on the net.

The middle pickup on SOME strats is reverse wound/reverse polarity. But that has nothing to do with how you wire it, unless of course you put a middle pickup in a neck or bridge possition. If THAT is the case, they you need a new pickup, becuase no matter how you wire it it will either buzz or it will be out-of-phase.


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