MrGameChanger
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What is your favorite pickup setting? If you could have a guitar or bass wired any way possible, what combinations and configurations would you choose?
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What's your favorite?
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If I had an HSH I would want (bridge to neck):
1) 1s2
2) 2p3
3) 3s5 (5 out of phase)
4) 3p5
5) 4s5
Pretty traditional except that middle position. I dig that for a biting, harmonically rich lead sound. Also I've found that I really dig 2p3 as opposed to 1p3. It's a little more rich as the 2 coil is a little further from the bridge than the 1 coil.
1) 1s2
2) 2p3
3) 3s5 (5 out of phase)
4) 3p5
5) 4s5
Pretty traditional except that middle position. I dig that for a biting, harmonically rich lead sound. Also I've found that I really dig 2p3 as opposed to 1p3. It's a little more rich as the 2 coil is a little further from the bridge than the 1 coil.
WillyD
Ernie Ball, Inc.
My Fav setting on the HSH model:
Bridge coil 1
Middle coil
Neck coil 5
All in series
Bridge coil 1
Middle coil
Neck coil 5
All in series
auxren
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My two favorite settings by far. Throaty and nasty
threeminutesboy
Well-known member
interesting wiring here 
can you post samples?
can you post samples?
auxren
Well-known member
interesting wiring here
I'll see if I can record some sounds and post them to SoundCloud tomorrow.
