In my case, there wasn't much room and I didn't have a suitable push/pull POT in my collection, so I added a discrete sliding toggle switch between my existing volume/tone knobs. If you intend to blend the two coils you will need a push/pull pot installed in addition to whatever knobs you already have, so make sure you have the necessary space for whatever new components you'll be adding before you blow the money on parts. You can get a push/pull type potentiometer/switch to replace your volume POT, or you may have to cut a hole in the pick guard to mount a toggle switch. If all you want is to turn your humbuckers into single coils you can pull that off in about 20 minutes with nothing more than a small piece of wire! Adding a switch will be more challenging mostly because you need to find a place to put it.
#Boss sd 1 single coil vs humbucker mod#
In it's simplest form this mod is very easy. This would take advantage of the humbuckers hum cancelling properties as much or as little as required for the current volume/gain settings. Another possibility, would be to use the pickup as "mostly" single coil to get that single coil tone that is often desired, but use the blend control to dial out some of the characteristic hum at higher gain levels. Using a control scheme like this on all of the available pickups would create many tonal variations that can be easily tweaked during a performance. For example, It is possible to create a single pickup that operates as both a single coil AND humbucker with a control to blend how much of each type of sound is routed through the guitar's controls to the amp. In this instructable, I'll show how I installed a switch to make both of the humbuckers on my guitar operate as single coils at the same time, but I'll also describe some other options in detail.
This will give you the tone and dynamics of a single coil (and the hum too) without buying new pickups AND you can go back to humbucker configuration with the flick of a switch! There are a ton of possibilities here to configure different tones on your guitar if you care to experiment. This is a much more useful configuration.If you have a guitar with dual-coil pickups, or humbuckers, you can easily modify the wiring to allow you to use just one of the coils on each pickup instead of both coils.
This was fun for a while, but it was not all that useful… so, I decided to try something else – a new pickup.
Next, I tried a couple of things with the electronics. I like this idea and might try it one day. I found this photo online somewhere (can’t remember where) of a guy who had mounted some bolts in wood in the old spring cavity. I’ve read that you can remove the springs completely and get a couple of bolts to just bolt the stop bar down. I took the vibrato apart and moved the springs down a notch so that they would pull tighter. I don’t use vibrato or whammy bars and much prefer fixed or locked down bridges, so I attempted to get this thing as tight as I could. The first thing I did was to check out how the electronics work with the two 3-way switches, and take a look at how the vibrato works. Even though the Mastersound was a beautiful guitar, I just wasn’t using it, and the two humbuckers wasn’t the sound for me, I’m more of a single-coil kinda guy 😉 Well… sort of… I swapped it for my Maton Mastersound MS503, which some people thought was crazy.
I little while ago I got myself a Fender Mustang, and it didn’t cost me a cent!
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