Fri Oct 19, 2018 2:41 am
Fri Oct 19, 2018 7:53 am
Fri Oct 19, 2018 1:51 pm
Danley wrote:Can't make a comment specific to Legacies, but as far as HSS shouldn't be much different than a Strat. IMO you'll still get a bit of 'quack' using a combined humbucker/single mid. But you'll get a somewhat more accurate tone if you wire for an 'auto-split' that combines the single with the humbucker coil of opposite polarity; that way you're still in effect combining two 'singles' - and you would have hum canceling in that position as well.
Fri Oct 19, 2018 6:11 pm
Sat Oct 20, 2018 9:18 am
Muleya wrote:I’ve got an HSS Legacacy, and I’m also a big fan of the typical 2nd position Strat/Legacy tone. Personally, I do not find the 2nd position tone on my HSS quite as authentic as I’d like...I was somewhat disappointed by that. You do get the ‘quack’, but the overall tone isn’t quite right. And to my surprise, I find the tone works better for me when the coils are NOT split. I didn’t expect that, but the tone is really thin when the coil is split...too thin. I will say the 2nd position tone is passable when the bridge pickup is in humbucker mode...at least in my opinion...but if you want the authentic tone, you may still want an SSS configuration. In my case, I’ve got two Legacies...one HSS and one SSS.
Sat Oct 20, 2018 9:26 am
Sun Oct 21, 2018 4:21 am
Muleya wrote:I’ve got an HSS Legacacy, and I’m also a big fan of the typical 2nd position Strat/Legacy tone. Personally, I do not find the 2nd position tone on my HSS quite as authentic as I’d like...I was somewhat disappointed by that. You do get the ‘quack’, but the overall tone isn’t quite right. And to my surprise, I find the tone works better for me when the coils are NOT split. I didn’t expect that, but the tone is really thin when the coil is split...too thin. I will say the 2nd position tone is passable when the bridge pickup is in humbucker mode...at least in my opinion...but if you want the authentic tone, you may still want an SSS configuration. In my case, I’ve got two Legacies...one HSS and one SSS.