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Need suggestions for PJ setup

#22
wild4oldcars said:
perhaps a series parallel push pull pot? Definitely could give you tone slightly more balls, with a boost in lows and low mids, as well as more output. of course, you'll lose your individual pu volume controls when in series
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I kind of had this setup with my SPB3/SJB3 in the jaguar modern player i owned. I had a 4 way rotary switch to switch between both pickups and both of them on in parallel or series. Having two pickups in series kicks up the output and adds a ton more mids at the sacrifice of high-end shimmer. Parallel is the standard for two pickups wired together and keeps the high end in-tact at the sacrifice of mids (think J bass vs P bass).

If you check out the video i sent you a few posts back, compare the first tone (parallel) and last (series) of the quarterpounder pups
 
#23
pattyløve;14391854 said:
I kind of had this setup with my SPB3/SJB3 in the jaguar modern player i owned. I had a 4 way rotary switch to switch between both pickups and both of them on in parallel or series. Having two pickups in series kicks up the output and adds a ton more mids at the sacrifice of high-end shimmer. Parallel is the standard for two pickups wired together and keeps the high end in-tact at the sacrifice of mids (think J bass vs P bass).

If you check out the video i sent you a few posts back, compare the first tone (parallel) and last (series) of the quarterpounder pups
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Yeah just checked it out again, the series part definitely sounded way more girthy, I like it a lot...so how would I go about wiring the pickups in terms of series? I don't really want them in parallel, or do I have to have the push/pot design?
 
#24
ba55i5t said:
Yeah just checked it out again, the series part definitely sounded way more girthy, I like it a lot...so how would I go about wiring the pickups in terms of series? I don't really want them in parallel, or do I have to have the push/pot design?
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it depends how youd want your pots setup. You can have it like it is now (Volume, volume tone) where the pickups are in series if turned up all the way. You could have it like I did (volume, switch, tone) or like you said, have a push pull so that you can get both parallel and series. Im not an expert on wiring diagrams but there are some floating around these forums.
 
#25
pattyløve;14394667 said:
it depends how youd want your pots setup. You can have it like it is now (Volume, volume tone) where the pickups are in series if turned up all the way. You could have it like I did (volume, switch, tone) or like you said, have a push pull so that you can get both parallel and series. Im not an expert on wiring diagrams but there are some floating around these forums.
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Thanks again for all of the help...looks like I'm probably going to get myself a pair of the SD pickups - SPB-3 and SJB-3. The only one that still kind of has me attached are the Fralin pickups...might need to check them out a little more, but I know the price point is quite a bit more expensive...

Thanks, and more suggestions welcome!;)
 

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