coil splitting

  1. S

    Wiring Help Needed

    I am finishing a build of a custom bass that has 3 pickups: Neck - Nordstrand Bigman 5 Middle - Nordstrand NP5 Bridge - Nordstrand Bigman 5 I'm attaching a (very crude) hand drawn wiring diagram. Here's what I'm trying to accomplish. 1. Each pickup has an on/off switch to turn the pickup on...
  2. G

    Seperate 5-way megaswitch for each humbucker

    I had an idea to take a bass with 2 humbuckers and install 2 schaller megaswitch m in it so i could have series/parallel, coil spilt north and south and go out of phase with each humbucker. I have only wired up a few basses and never used a switch that has this many contacts and i was wondering...
  3. therumour

    MM four conductor series/parallel/front coil/rear coil wiring

    I believe I've seen (i.e. Nordstrand diagram) the series/parallel wiring with one DPDT switch selecting the dual coils in series or parallel or one coil. Does anyone know a practical way to include the choice of coil (front or rear) with an alternate switch/pot, etc. Yeah, I get it that when...
  4. jdschrock

    Ray5HH modding

    Hey everyone, I've recently picked up a Sterling Ray5HH. It's my first Stingray style bass and overall I'm loving the humbuckers. However part of why I picked this up was seeing it reviewed by Lowend Lobster, and then seeing his Project Code Red mod on the Ray4HH. I really love the idea of...
  5. T

    Bass with north/off/south and series/off/parallel?

    I want to build a bass with north/off/south and series/off/parallel, or something similar, for each pickup. I'm just not sure about the wiring. I've never messed with pickup wiring before so any help is greatly appreciated. I have 6 pin on/off/on switches and 3 pin on/off switches but can buy...
  6. Nohrellas

    Sire M2 2nd Gen, 3-way miniswitch humbucker mod, tutorial (serial/single coil/parallel - wiring)

    A fellow TBer asked me for my wiring on the Sire M2 2nd Gen so I wrote this little tutorial in case somebody else wants to do this great mod to their M2 2nd Gen. This mod will add 2 extra switches to your bass, each controlling one pickup, so you can freely choose between parallel/single...