Category Archives: Tutorial

Changing the Personality of a Guitar – Part 2.1

Posted on July 11, 2016 by admin

It seems worth repeating the message another way, showing how to get the most out of humbucking pairs: For a pickup with 4 matched single-coil pickups, you can have 8 different personalities of 12 timbres each.  The personalities, timbres available … Continue reading →

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

Posted on July 10, 2016 by admin

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?

Posted on July 7, 2016 by admin

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

Posted on July 6, 2016 by admin

(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

Posted on July 5, 2016 by admin

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

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

Posted on July 4, 2016 by admin

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

Posted on July 3, 2016 by admin

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

Posted on July 3, 2016 by admin

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)

Posted on June 30, 2016 by admin

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

Posted on June 29, 2016 by admin

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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