I don’t really care what’s going on inside this guitar, I just play your videos because you’re a pleasant person.

@426baron

5 ай бұрын

I don't really care for that style of guitars, more of a metal guy. But yeah, that positive vibe feels nice.

Hi Ryan, you should do more videos in this vein. You explain things in an easy to understand way and give off an "if I can do this, anyone can" vibe (that's a compliment). Keep up the good work.

@drewsmyser7213

Жыл бұрын

I second this

@thedreadtones

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. I have no clue how to re-wire anything, but Ryan made it look super simple.

Rather than coil-splitting, I often run both coils in parallel for a bright & jangly sound. I'll bet you'd get a better result on this guitar doing that.

@-processdrone-

Жыл бұрын

Me too, single coil sound but still humbucking, seemed like a no-brainer to me on my guitars... but y'know... people vary.

@rindred

Жыл бұрын

That LP Black Beauty triple-hum middle position sound (well, what you can achieve of it on a $400 Chinese import). That would probably be a more useful tone with these humbuckers' pole configuration.

@0000song0000

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, everyone wants different stuff... I am thinking of which guitar to mod to get funky out-of-phase sound 😅

You could also do a wiring mod to get the "HH & 5-way" options of 1. Bridge humbucker 2. Outer coils 3. Both humbuckers 4. Inner coils 5. Neck humbucker Should let you have full volume across the strings.

I did a partial coil split on my Revstar. Just stick a resistor in there. I used a trimpot resistor and adjusted it until it didn't suck.

@hughschick6847

Жыл бұрын

A little-known / seldom used but excellent mod! btw I would be Uncle Remiss if I did not mention that partially out of phase controlled by trim pot is also really cool.

These are my favorite type of video you do. Really loved the entire Squier Supersonic saga with all the mods and exploration. Would like to see more of this in the future.

Bunch of commentors already said what I was gonna say but definitely try series/parallel switch instead! Similar sound, still humbucking and the wide-range design won't be an issue :)

I watched a Paul Gilbert video where he takes an Ernie Ball string right out the packet and tunes it all the way up to a high A before it breaks. Ever since then I've never been worried about it breaking while tuning.

I think this middle position could be cool if done reverse. I find the bass strings get a bit muddy on the neck anyway, but I love that smooth rich neck pickup on the high strings.

Loved how you showed the whole process even the parts where you didn't quite get it, too many videos just jump right to the solution, great vid!

Great video! I wasn't expecting the results you got. I learned something new today 🙂

sweet mod bro! nice tones and everything!

In my Jag-Stang partcaster I installed a Seymour Duncan SH-16 and split it and I'm very grateful I did! With a neck Strat pickup and the bridge pickup split I get some great Strat tones (SRV, RHCP, etc.) and the humbucker sounds boss 👌

I didn't even notice the lack of "Hi I'm Ryan you're watching 60 Cycle Hum, and in today's video..."

I was debating coil cutting my cunife wide range humbuckers. Thanks for doing the dirty work!!

Very good tone to start with, and I really like the split middle position. I have an old beat-up Teisco that I put an uncovered all-slug humbucker in, but I pushed out three (EAD) slugs on the North coil, and three (GBE) slugs from the south coil. It's the neck pickup. It has a gold-foil-type pickup but without the metal cover for the bridge pup. It cries and screams.

If you want solder connection to loosen up much much easier, try to add a little bit solder to it first, the old solder will melt much easier when you do…👍

@user-ellievator

Жыл бұрын

Works for me every time ✌

I wanna see some 60 cycle Yum! while drinking tropical drinks with HP and Andy next month!

Gorgeous guitar 🎸🤖📼🎛️

A cautionary tale on modding to coil split humbuckers with push pull pots. Grab a snack, this is long. The Ric in my avatar is modded with push pull coil split set up. This was done 2 years ago this month. All pickups are HB1 RIC humbuckers. I haven't noticed bass or treble being louder than the other. I believe it's due to the construction of the pickups. These are way different than other makes. I can get classic Ric toaster tone. It doesn't have that funky sounds like a single coil with something missing that Ryan mentioned. My wiring is custom with three push pull pots. Neck and middle pots are the tone pots. Bridge took over the 5th blend knob, so it is a coil splitting volume only pot. It has no dedicated tone pot, so it's wide open. Set up worked great until my neck pick up took a shit in the fall. Was told "hey, Ric HB1s can die at any time. Even when sitting unused in a drawer". I sent both the neck pickup and the loaded pickguard back to the guy who built my harness as warranty. He was happy to troubleshoot the pickup because he dealt with this before and needed to rule out some root causes. The harness was fine. The neck pickup made everything malfunction. When the neck pickup was in full humbucking mode, everything works fine and other two pickups coil split with no issues. Go split the coil and the rest of the guitar is fucking dead. Nothing works. No sound, no power. Cue red hot rage. I'm supposed to get my guitar back tomorrow and pray this fucking thing is wired back correctly and functioning again. If it's having the identical issue with the new HB1, I'm taking the guitar elsewhere to either fix it correctly or reinstall the other custom harness I had before this last mod. Prior harness only had bridge coil split. My advice: you better know your guitar's electronics and issues that may arise. I love my guitar. I don't love the problems I'm having with it and hope that I have a working guitar again.

Great video 👍🏼

What might be fun it to reverse the magnet on the neck pickup ala Peter Green . As another bit of trivia, Peter's Greeny Les Paul also had both Humbucker pickups lower height on the top base strings to soften bass tones. Gave more prominace to the higher pich jangle .

If you swap the green from the switch with the ground (not shield) it will make the bridge pickup bass side work on the split. Those are the start and end of the pickup. They are not actually a ground and signal. You could also make them change to parallel, or simulate a tap by putting a 1k to 2k resistor between the switch output and ground. Check the SD site for wiring. You could figure it out with a multi meter.

That middle position is a revelation.

Use a WD-40 sprayer tube to help you feed the strings through the body, it’s fantastic for strat types as well! Love your videos!

@curtisy6234

Жыл бұрын

Elaborate on what you mean..I think this would be a great idea

@hughschick6847

Жыл бұрын

@@curtisy6234 use a small (narrow) straw basically

@63stratoman

Жыл бұрын

Perhaps one that has never been used. I'd hate to get WD-40 all over a set of brand new strings! 😡

That Vietnamese IYV ITF-300 (a 2-humbucker Telecaster Thinline semi-hollow) is wired the same way, but in an enormous control cavity routed in the back. The four wires for each pickup are readily available with the cover off. Either splitting the coils or going series/parallel with push-pull DPDT pots would be fun... and then top it off with the six-way Freeway Les Paul switch.

I think this is actually really useful and could make for a cleaner band mix by creating a level of separation with multiple guitars and/or guitar and bass. I’m also curious how it would work with a compressor, especially a multiband one.

Did the same thing with a shawbucker wide range humbucker but used the triple shot rings

Same kinda deal with the Harley Benton MR Modern I got: gets quieter when I engage the split.

As funny as the music is, your transitions are so brilliant. Helps keep a long video interesting and highlights the important parts

I have totally gotten thwapped by the high E string on a fresh pack. I was flinching just watching...

Huh, that was weird. I have a squier 51 that has the same volume drop when I split the pickups (maybe not the same, cause it has a regular humbucker, so the drop is uniform). I always thought it was a normal thing. Maybe I have a coil tap?

Glad to see you hacking around on this guitar. I have this EXACT Eart model sitting in my closet as we speak except I am not allowed to touch it until my birthday next month! Cool seeing that the pickups are 4-conductor but based upon your experience, I probably will not bother and now I guess we both understand why Eart did not set it up this way from the factory! I guess I'll give these pickups a chance but I am already thinking of swapping in a set of Seymour Duncan "Pearly Gates" or something to that effect. How about next trying out a set of acoustic transducer saddles? I am also thinking of this mod but would be great to watch you do first so I can determine whether it would be worth it! 😂

That was an interesting result. Now we know!

2:00 Oh that fret #22! When did Fender change the Strat from 21 to 22 frets? From the Strats I've seen online, I'm thinking around 2000.Or did some clone maker do that first? Regardless, I've found some cheap copies frustrating to get the pickguard off because of that extra overhang of the 22 fret fretboard.

Ryan, have you had a chance to check out the Bad Cat Mojo MS-320? I know you've done other Bad Cat guitars, but I didn't see a video for this. Just curious what your thoughts were about it. Thanks.

Or use thinner strings 50’s are heavy and bass. Interested to know what a 9.5-44 or 10-46 would sound like

So if you sink the screws all the way down does it balance out?

Man I love the looks of that guitar. Hard to find here in Europe though.

Couldnt you lower the threaded slugs to match the covered pole output?

All you might need to do Ryan, is to just screw in all the screws lower down to roughly the height of the slugs under the cover where they don't show. They could be just screws under the cover for all we know... Then raise the whole pickup a bit to get a better tone. Or just pop the covers off completely.

I have learned (from making many mistakes / sucking at wiring) to just alligator-clip-wire everything together before soldering. Then solder once you’re sure it functions as desired.

Is there any need to modify an EART? Other than you can?

I would like to suggest a video on Jim Thomas of The Mermen's Strat that I think I remember had it set up to have separate outputs for each pick up, among other things. I think it would suit your Mad Scientist attitude.

That bridge split would be perfect for ska

I prefer series/parallel over coil tapping.

@madmat6502

Жыл бұрын

Exactly. And... it's still humbucking.

@60CycleHumcast

Жыл бұрын

I lent out the guitar to a friend but i might try that when i get it back.

i like it

I wonder if those arent just straight up split single coil pickups like a G&L Commanche or a P-bass and by coil-splitting youre literally just cutting out the whole upper or lower half? Either way its very interesting and could be a cool base idea for some experimenting!

Maybe you should try a parallel/ serial switching... I like that often more than splitting the coil.

humbucker looking zig zag to create two rows of coils making them noiseless single coil sounding pickups.

I was the first 👍🏻 !!! Haha wuddup Ryan thanks in advance for the video I’m about to watch 😬

Why didn't you wire the push pull to the tone? It had like 3 things and you would need a tiny extra wire to run from the switch to the bonded pair.

Will you make sure Eart will make also a left handed version of the guitar you designed? Of course you will! 🙂

Series/parallel rather than splits...! More difficult to wire and you'll need a second push-pull I think. If you've ever seen railhammer humcutter pickups, they're even worse. They're like a P-Bass pickup under the cover, so split them and... Well, you can guess

Ryan, there is a hack to help boost the coil splits its either a cap or resistor on the volume pot. I don't remember what but some smart person can tell you more. 🤔

Thanks! We profit from your mistakes :D

Non-sequitur, but would you consider doing a sound test between the cheap plastic guitar cables included with new guitars and aftermarket ones? I know cables are cheap, but it would be interesting to hear if they're really worth it.

@60CycleHumcast

Жыл бұрын

in my experience its not about the 'sound' of the cable, its about the fact that the cheap plastic cables have little to no shielding and can tend to make crackling noises when they are moved. You dont need to spend a lot of money to get decent cables but the cheapies that come with guitars should be avoided.

@muznick

Жыл бұрын

@@60CycleHumcast Thanks.

I put some firebird or something bird mini buckers three up left three down right small flat cut studs they were in 67 sg sp rare deep maroon candy. tossed p90s in Silvertone to make 12 string but those cleaned up the total dirt to the sounds like chrome never

@kellyhinkelman8591

Жыл бұрын

Secret pu into p90 guards no hole drilling use nuts at corners that reach under as the surround corners just reach over the rounded guard cut. Never found a set since 76...

Ryan vs High E String 😆

I think you've uncovered one of the differences between a normal and 'wide-range' humbucker. When you split a normal bucker you're just grounding out the opposite-wound hum coil to subtract it from the net signal. Noise results, the famous "60-Cycle Hum." (Nice plug there, you're welcome.) A wide-range humbucker probably has the same polarity in both coils and a mid-coil crossover tap. Evidence of that is when you hopefully selected 'single split coil' on the bridge the output decreased on the bass strings but the hum didn't increase. Still a humbucker. So when you ground out a coil you lose the full output on half the strings- in this case the bass strings. Interesting. Or I could be totally wrong. Ask Phil or Dylan.

In 40 years of playing I've never felt the need for a coil tapped bridge pickup, fit a treble bleed and turn it down to seven when you want more top and less mids, its still humbucking. I always fit a pull push coil tap (tone control) on the neck though.

Wire them in series/parallel instead. Imho it’s superior to a coil split because you get some single coil jangle without the hum.

More pancakes jam plz.

Ryan, I want to step my daughter up from her $60 Rouge Rocketeer soon, I’m looking at Slick, Xavier, Eart, Latitude, basically $300ish. 11 y/o girl addicted to power cords and chugs, which direction could you push me?

@marshallohio5512

8 ай бұрын

Eart all day long 😊

Yes, we need to get the word out that coil split is not a magic catch-all. If you need a thinner sound out of a humbucker, use a series/parallel switch.

first off, 10 1/2 gauge strings? is that due to the coating or whatever? anyways, did my first coil split few weeks back... what i thought would be merely a few solder points turned into a 5 hour soldering ordeal and clusterfuck of wires (my wiring schematic of course didn't match to the actual wiring of my guitar and i had to guess a few points.) i succeeded, but figures its never as simple as the diagrams want you to think. don't think i'll coil split again... i'm heading into a pickup swap for my supersonic that again, has weirder soldering points than seems like it should, and i hope i dont fuk it up!

Screw your poles in and raise your pickups closer to the strings

The Schecter PT Fastback IIB has fake Wide Range humbucker pickups like that and they split very well and even across the bass/treble. Not sure how they do it but nothing special in the wiring itself. They are G&B pickups like PRS guitars.

Have you ever had a string snap and hit you in the eye???

@60CycleHumcast

Жыл бұрын

NO BUT IT COULD HAPPEN

@vickydemeo6679

Жыл бұрын

@@60CycleHumcast 😂

I don't know what pronunciation to do on this brand. I've heard people say 'urt', I've heard people say "ear't", and I've heard people say "air't". This is the Porsche of guitar names.

better to install a "Dry Switch"

Still waiting for the $99 Chinese CuNiFe pickups to show up on alibaba...

I think splitting them was a mistake. And there was plenty of twang in full humbucker mode.

Nice show. ...I just wish I knew who this was and what channel I'm watching. This must be a problem for people with vision loss. This nice sounding man must hate disabled people...and animals.

Ryan can't get it in the hole. Duly noted.

Or I could wind you a set of pickups that will coil split better than those...

Down to EARth video, that is as rude as I get...

Tell me you do not understand how the switch works without telling me you don't understand.. Folks following what you see on the internet is ok maybe.. but if you don't understand how the lugs relate to the switch.. perhaps you shouldn't be modding stuff. learn how it works before you rewire stuff. It isn't hard at all

@60CycleHumcast

Жыл бұрын

Because making mistakes on camera is fun.

@hughschick6847

Жыл бұрын

Wiring police out in force today

@Andrew_182

Жыл бұрын

"learn how it works before you rewire stuff" Since it didn't actually hurt anything, seems like "learning by doing" is a perfectly fine strategy in this particular instance.

@-processdrone-

Жыл бұрын

We all learned by trying something & failing and trying something else at some point in our life. You did too Ted, no good trying to pretend you didn't just because there's no video evidence, we know.

If you toss in a preamp to get the volume back up.. no