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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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Addendum to An All-Humbucking 5-Way Superswitch Circuit (Tutorials page)

Addendum 2016-06-30: Actually the odd coil out can be put in any position, not just the middle.  But then you will have to rework the wiring and soldering diagrams.  Consider putting it at the neck.  Then the (N+B) pair is … Continue reading

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Paul Reed Smith Guitars 513 ™ model pickup switching – General principles of humbucking pairs

If you go to the PRS Guitars web site and look at the video for the 513 model (five pickups, 13 different sounds) you will see and hear a beautiful guitar that sounds awesome.  It uses two dual-coil humbuckers at … Continue reading

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Provisional Patent Application filed on humbucking switch system

On June 27th, shortly after posting about the alleged Fender Marauder ™ hum problem, I figured out just how to solve it with two commonly available switches, in a way that can produce all 12 possible humbucking combinations of pairs … Continue reading

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Electronic Freedom for who?

One of the posters on /r/guitar/, a gentleman (a real one) who advocates for Electronic Freedom (EFF) and Open Source (FOSS), noted that an entire geek faction believes that all software should be free of any copyright or patent protection.  … Continue reading

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Two New Tutorials on Humbucking Pickup Pairs

Two new tutorial pages are up now on switching and positioning humbucking pairs made up of matched single-coil pickups: Wiring All-Humbucking Single-Coil Pickups has excerpts from Patent Application US 2016/0027422 A1, demonstrating how the wiring is done. Notes on Humbucking … Continue reading

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Banned from posting reddit.com/r/guitar/

Somehow I thought it might be a good idea to become more involved in social media discussions, like those on reddit.com/r/guitar/   About the last half-dozen of my posts were tagged by the “AutoModerator”, stating that I was trying to post … Continue reading

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User/Subscriber Benefits?

As of this writing, 32 other people have signed up as users on this site, who are real people, not known as spambots (which will be deleted with prejudice).  At this point, the only benefits to signing up as a … Continue reading

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The Dark Side of the America Invents Act

© 2016 Don Baker dba android originals LC I have to give the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office thanks, credit and high marks for helping me to write and file my patent, currently pending as US 2016/0027422 A1, “Acoustic-electric stringed … Continue reading

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