BronYrAur5231 Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 I am currently looking at the Epiphone tribute pro. I noticed it said that,"Epiphone has added push/pull tone pots to allow for series/parallel pickup switching." What does that mean? Does it have something to do with the 4-conductor pickup wiring? And what is 4-conductor pickup wiring anyway? Please help me!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArchtopBill Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 It's a cool feature. It allows you to select single coils as opposed to the two coils of a humbucker. Yes, the humbuckers have four wires. Traditional HB's have just a pair of wires. Guitars wired this way have lots of tonal flexibility: classic humbucker or single coil/Strat or P-90. These are not for everyone, but you should play around with one in a store where you can hear the tonal ranges and textures before you buy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supersonic Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 Series/Parallel switching and coil splitting are not the same. They both use 4 conductor wiring though. If you are talking about a LP Tribute Plus, it has 2 push/pull tone pots for series/parallel switching, but it doesn't have the coil split feature. This explains what it is fairly well.... "Series and parallel wiring usually refers to two separated but related issues. The most common usage refers to how two coils in a humbucking pick up are connected to each other. With series wiring the individual coils are connected end to end. Current flows first through one coil and then the other. This is the way most humbucking pickups are wired. With parallel wiring the individual coils are connected to each other at both ends and current flows through both coils at the same time. Pickups wired in parallel are brighter sounding and have considerably less output than an identical pickup wired in series. The terms series and parallel are also used to describe the way in which separate pickups are connected to each other in the guitar by the pick up selector switch. In the vast majority of guitars the pickups are connected to each other in parallel. The same rules apply to pick ups wired in series and parallel as a humbuckers coils wired in series and parallel. Two pickups wired in series will have higher output and a fuller tone." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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