Pickup Mode Sound Demos
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I had been thinking a long time about doing this and eventually I did. As you can see in thepic, myRG is rigged with 3 pots and 2 5-way switches.Two of the pots hide push-pull switches. Also one of the 5-way switches is a 4-pole monster, the other is regular.
As you can also see, the pickups look odd. The middle pickup is a normal single coil, the stock one actually, which I have rewound to lesser power. The neck and bridge pickups are each two pickups in one. Each of the humbucker-looking pickups contains a DiMarzio Fast Track 1 and a DiMarzio Chopper, both of which are single coil-sized humbuckers. So you can say my guitar has 5 pickups on it, instead of 3.
With the help of the switches there, I regulate which pickups are active, since there are so many of them: There is a regular 5-way selector, there is the big 4-pole 5-way that tweaks the neck and bridge operation modes, one push-pull  activates both the neck and bridge together when either of them is already active and the other push-pull reverses the phase of the middle pickup.
The current configuration of the neck and bridge pickups is: Humbucker, Fast Track 1, Chopper, single coil mode with reversed phase at the bridge and humbucker mode with reversed pahse at the bridge.
Each switch is independent so if you work it out, there are many combinations in there. To be honest, not all of them sound good. Most of the time they don't even sound distinct enoughfrom one another. So why do I keep them? Two reasons: 1)It's mechanical, not midi, which means some combinations occur whether I want the or not. 2) What sounds lousy in certain settings can sound interesting under different settings, so I like to keep options.
 
The samples you're about to hear, are a few selected combinations from all across the range of options. The idea is to show you the type of sounds I can get, not every variation of every type of sound.
All samples were taken with the same amp settings and guitar volume and tone settings.I didn't spend time tweaking a nice sound out of the amp. Maybe  I should have.
 
 
SAMPLE 1:
In order of appearacne:
bridge humbucker,
bridge Chopper,
bridge Fast Track 1,
middle pickup,
neck Fast Track 1,
neck Chopper,
neck humbucker.
 
http://soundclick.com/share?songid=6890656
 
I rarely use the Choppers because they sound quite like the humbuckers, but they have more definition which shows in distorted situations
 
 
SAMPLE 2:
NOTE: In all of the following clips, the bridge pickup has its phase reversed.
In order of appearance: 
bridge humbucker - middle pickup
bridge humbucker - middle pickup - neck humbucker
bridge humbucker - neck humbucker (sounds like a fixed wah)
bridge Chopper - neck Fast Track 1
bridge Chopper - middle pickup - neck Fast Track 1
middle pickup (for reference)
 
http://soundclick.com/share?songid=6890668
 
The two modes utilizing all 3 pickup, offer a good clean bright sound that I often prefer to any of the sounds I get from any "normal" pickup mode.
 
 
 

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