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  • Hip Bone Bellaire March 22, 2013 at 4:51pm

    Dude perfect.. thanks...

  • Jason Smith March 22, 2013 at 4:14pm

    Excellent video thanks for sharing

  • BrianQ. March 19, 2013 at 3:37pm

    Hey Hip Bone, I work for a Music Store, I'll ask da Peavey Rep. what the configuration of da powerslide is,gimme a couple days,he's comin' in onwednesday or  thursday, I'll get to da bottom of dis' from da source!

    • Hip Bone Bellaire > BrianQ. March 19, 2013 at 4:32pm

      way cool... thanks

      • BrianQ. > Hip Bone Bellaire March 22, 2013 at 4:12pm

        Hey Hip Bone, after talkin' to the Peavey Rep., I gots da info on yer powerslide:                  

        1) the Humbucker is specifically wired to be split                                                                           2) instead of a switch to split the coils, a rotary pot is used as a splitter/blend control                        3) it also has a treble bleed cap hooked up to it like a traditional tone pot                                       so basically it's a blend/tone pot in one that acts as a coil splitter,it's actually not as complicated as I thought it was gonna be. there it is. hope it answered yer question :)

                                                                           

  • Hip Bone Bellaire March 18, 2013 at 2:43pm

    I think I got it..

    http://www.ironstone-pickups.co.uk/technical-support/humbucker-hss-...

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  • The Phrygian Kid February 23, 2013 at 2:55pm
    Yes you need a bucker with four conductor wiring, at least four wires coming off it, sometimes four plus a ground. They're not uncommon at all, but basic buckers have only two wires coming off em, these are hard wired as a bucker, you can't do these fancy tricks with that.
  • Hip Bone Bellaire February 23, 2013 at 2:43pm

    Great. thanks.. lots of info to ponder about... Would I need a special humbucker to tap or can anyone tap one...

  • The Phrygian Kid February 23, 2013 at 2:28pm
    You can just use a pot as a volume control for one of the coils, so it not just single or bucker, but all the shades in between. A diode i(15 cents) s essential to keep the other coil from bleeding to ground when you use it. I've done it with a balance pot sometimes, so you can fade that coil in in-phase as well as out of phase.
    I didn't know peavey was doing that, it's a cool mod
  • David L. February 23, 2013 at 10:01am
    Hi Hip Bone,
    I am not sure how they have done it but the easiest way I can think off is to use diodes on two normal volume pots and wire them one on each of the coils of the tappable humbucker like in the straciatella mod http://www.strat-talk.com/forum/stratocaster-discussion-forum/13405...
    I have tried this mod on a guitar with 2minihumbuckers, 3piezos under a hardtail bridge In parallel using 1N5819 diodes on the output lug of the 3 volume pots (one for each mini HB and one for the piezos) and it works well. The link has wiring diagram for single coils or humbuckers but I am used to the typical wiring of a pot so used the usual "in" to lug 1, diode "out" on middle lug and "ground" to lug 3. The 3 dioded outputs can either be connected to a jack socket or a passive or active tone added at this point.
    Wiring a single humbucker with 2 dioded volume pots should offer more "tonal" control as you have the option of controlling the output of both coils rather than 1fixed and one variable as in the video.

    DL
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