Monthly Archives: July 2016

New Page: On Changing the Personality of a Guitar – Part 2

Click Here. Shows that for K number of matched single-coil pickups, the total number of possible in-phase pairs is K*(K-1)/2, and the total number of possible contra-phase pairs is K*(K-1)/2.  The ultimate number of unique humbucking pairs for K is … Continue reading

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New page: How Many Useful Outputs From Five Coils?

How Many Useful Pickup Combinations Can You Get From 5 Coils? © 2016 Don Baker dba android originals LC How many possible connections, musically meaningful or not, can you get from 5 electromagnetic coil pickups?  More specifically from two humbuckers, … Continue reading

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Guitars With Too Many Choices to Succeed

(c) 2016 Don Baker dba android originals LC Let me put this in Bold:  With humbucking pairs, you can set a guitar up to shift from warm to bright without ever knowing which pairs are used. Other  guitars have come … Continue reading

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Tutorials Tab Reorganized

The Tutorials tab has been reorganized to group all pages on Humbucking Pairs together.

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History Tab Added

For any who might wonder where this all came from, and how long it took, TSG now has a History tab.  The first article, Shooting the Bullet, describes a time in about April to May 2005, when a new Fender … Continue reading

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New Page: On Changing the Personality of a Guitar – Part 1

A new page discussing how the tonal quality and range of a guitar can be changed by plug-in pickups and a plug-in board connecting the pickups to a tone switch.

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Applying HB Pairs Analysis to the Paul Reed Smith 513 Guitar

Applying Humbucking (HB) Pairs Analysis to the Paul Reed Smith 513 Guitar © 2016 Don Baker dba android originals LC, Tulsa OK The Paul Reed Smith PRS-513 guitar, a beautiful, awesome-sounding guitar, boasts a 3-way and a 5-way switch to … Continue reading

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Applying HB Pairs Analysis to the Music-Man St. Vincent Guitar

Applying Humbucking (HB) Pairs Analysis to the Music-Man St. Vincent Guitar © 2016 Don Baker dba android originals LC, Tulsa OK The Music-Man St. Vincent guitar uses a five-way switch to chose among three mini-humbuckers, positioned at the neck, middle … Continue reading

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