S-500 HSH prototype-1

All this messing around with the Doheny MFD humbuckers reminds me of this idea we didn’t sort out. It’s been hanging in my office for a year? Two years? No idea.

I do remember Spencer Brown wiring up this beast and trying to run through what it does. Did a lot of stuff though, I think 19 possible selections. The neck and bridge humbuckers are made from paired S-500 single coils. So each humbucker is like a pairing of a standard issue S-500 neck/bridge pickup and an S-500 middle pickup which has reverse polarity and winding (RWRP).

Used as normal series humbuckers, they were way too hot. We kinda figured that would happen, but we just did this one just for kicks. Could be refined though.