Strats. How is yours wired?

[FuzzyAce]

After reading Drew's post, I forgot to mention I have a strat set up with the DG set/active controls too. I'm getting older so forget sometimes. I'll echo what Drew says about the controls. They're great to a point but I use them sparingly.

 

[CakeEater]

I've got Kinman AVN-69-v2s (250K) in the neck and middle, and a Kinman Kick-in-the-Arse Heavy (500k) in the bridge. A K5 harness with tone 1 controlling neck and middle and tone 2 controlling the bridge. But I've just ordered the K7 harness so I can blend the neck into the bridge and middle. I'm looking forward to this as I enjoy blending the middle position on my LP and Gretsch.

 

[2112]

I definitely prefer the neck/middle tone and bridge tone setup.

A really cool trick for a faux humbucker tone is rolling down the middle pickup tone and adding the wide open bridge pickup (or vice versa).

I've got a strat with Fralin, a master tone and neck/bridge blend. Fat sounding guitar.

 

[SillyOctpuss]

A really cool truck for a faux humbucker tone is rolling down the middle pickup tone and adding the wide open bridge pickup (or vice versa)

I've never tried that, I've always gone for bridge pickup with the down down around half way. Actually I'll go and try it now, I've been really enjoying playing my strat recently.

 

[CakeEater]

I definitely prefer the neck/middle tone and bridge tone setup.

A really cool trick for a faux humbucker tone is rolling down the middle pickup tone and adding the wide open bridge pickup (or vice versa).

I've got a strat with Fralin, a master tone and neck/bridge blend. Fat sounding guitar.

There's definitely something to this. Rolling down one tone give more space to the upper range of the other pickup.

 

[SillyOctpuss]

A really cool truck for a faux humbucker tone is rolling down the middle pickup tone and adding the wide open bridge pickup (or vice versa).

I've never tried that, I've always gone for bridge pickup with the down down around half way. Actually I'll go and try it now, I've been really enjoying playing my strat recently.

That's really really cool @2112. Just spent about 10 mins trying that out with my strat, jvm and a prs horsemeat. It's a great sound. Thanks Leon

 

[ghostrider]

Volume
Neck/Middle Tone
Bridge Tone

250k pots
.022 cap

 

[EOengineer]

 

[greatmutah]

Main Strat - Duncan SSL-6 with Fender Pure Vintage 59s. 5 way, 1 volume, 2 tones with the first tone for the neck only, second for bridge and middle.

OG MIM Strat - HSS (PAF Pro and Texas Specials). 5 way with auto split, 1 volume, 2 tones. No tone on bridge pickup as in full HB mode it doesn’t need it so much (only seeing 250K so about as much as a humbucker seeing 2 500k pots). Push/pull wired to split bridge pickup by itself. I always want the pickup to auto split in two but in one I occasionally want the twang. So it splits to the coil closest to the bridge.

Charve So Cal - HSS. Duncan SSL-2s and Duncan 59/Custom Hybrid (love this pickup). 5 way with auto split, 1 volume and 1 tone. 5 way is a super switch so I have tone control only on positions 5-2. Position 1 is the HB solo. Also have a push pull on the tone to split the HB on its own. Again splitting to coil closest to bridge for proper twang. Also splitting to that coil ensures position 2 sounds as right as a split HB and middle pickup together can sound vs a SSS strat.