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Mickf
Username: Mickf
Registered: 09-2005
| Posted on Sunday, October 16, 2005 - 4:30 am: | |
I recently bought a set of pickups from a Reb Beach - model 1 (two SB1 and a HB 2) from 1993. I soldered them to my five-way switch and - surprise - the SB1s sound great, but the HB2 seems to be automatically splitted, since it not only sounds like a single coil but also has the distinctive single coil hum. So my question: is the white wire of the HB2 not a ground wire (like on the SB1s) but a coil tap and should be soldered to a mini switch to have the split-option? What does the mini switch on the RBM1 actually do - there is no such tap-option for the SB1s? Please help! |
Mickf
Username: Mickf
Registered: 09-2005
| Posted on Friday, December 30, 2005 - 2:22 pm: | |
Well, thanks for the plenty of advice on the Reb Beach PUs ... What I did, and I think it 's a quite useful and versatile modification, is: I use a standard 5-way switch for a H-S-S configuration, but I soldered the coil-tap wire of the bridge Humbucker and the hot wire of the neck-SC to a DPDT mini-switch, which a) splits the bridge HB and b) links position 1 and 5, i.e. it adds the neck-SC to the bridge HB. So I have a Tele-type sound in positions 1 and 5 and all three pickpus in positions 2 and 4. Especially the "all three together"-sound is very funky and awsome through a cranked up clean channel of a valve amp. |
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