Humbucker question!

[Karlos]

Hi, I would like to know if it is normal that by selecting the selector on the guitar for two humbuckers and putting only one with zero volume the sound of the second also disappears? My guitar is yamaha sa2200,
Thank you

[Cunamara]

Yes. The same thing happens on my Ibanez GB10.

[Peter C]

Yes, and the thing here is that by leaving the bridge pickup on almost zero (and maybe with some tone roll-off on that pup), you can use the middle setting for comping, then flick up to the neck pup for solos. An old trick, which works in a live situation.

[pingu]

i had the same behaviour on my Ibz Af2000
but not on my old Ibz af120

its a fairly easy to fix/change it
so the two pickups are independent
of each other

like so

[AllanAllen]

I heard independent controls Change the overall tone. Did you notice anything like that?

[rpjazzguitar]

One minor advantage of the wiring that allows either pickup to kill the whole guitar is this.

If you're a player who doesn't use the bridge pickup, you can turn it all the way off.

Then, if the switch gets thrown by accident, the guitar won't make a sound. I like that, because I immediately know what's wrong and can move the switch back.

Others might prefer to have the bridge pickup continue to play, but what happens for me is that the guitar sounds wrong and I can't figure out why on the fly and end up screwing up all my settings in the signal chain.

I suppose I could simply rewire the switch to play the neck pickup in all positions, but I haven't done that.

[Jimmy Mack]

The reason this happens, for understanding a little more about your electric guitar, is that, by turning down the volume on one pickup, you are providing a path "to ground" for the whole system, because the 2 p/ups are connected when the switch is in the middle position.

[pingu]

1288642[/URL]]The reason this happens, for understanding a little more about your electric guitar, is that, by turning down the volume on one pickup, you are providing a path "to ground" for the whole system, because the 2 p/ups are connected when the switch is in the middle position.

not always
see the diagrams below