HSH Guitar Mods Demo: 13 pickup combinations and more!

Guitar: JET USL 240, stock pickups

Mods:
• Push-pull pot on tone enables coil splitting
• On-off-on mini switch enables Gilmour mod and Gilmour+ mod

Gilmour mod sends neck pickup signal directly to volume pot, adding two pickup combinations: neck+bridge, neck+middle+bridge.
Gilmour+ mod sends neck pickup signal directly to output jack, enabling neck boost and blend-in for bridge or bridge+middle. Strange mod, demo is at the end of the video.

Recording gear: Focusrite Scralett 2i2 2nd Gen, Logic Pro X, Logic Amp Designer, NadIR, Logic effects.

Timecodes:

00:00 Standard Sounds: 5 way switch
01:57 Coil Splitting
03:34 Gilmour Mod
05:20 Gilmour+ Mod

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[tipston]

Absolute madman! Thanks for the demo, I got some good ideas from this 👍🏻

[Dean-mqwp]

This is great, i have this guitar, dont see too many aroind...i jave always wanted to boost up the sound...i guess you just compelled me to start that project...thnx for sharing... nice playing as well ..

[hadeseye]

This is pure gold. I was waiting for video like this as my next axe is going to be HSH.

[poromise]

The 2nd position with coil split off and Gilmour mod on, with every coil active, sounds really cool actually

[tommasocovino]

I've just done something similar with my strato mexico wheree I mounted two SSL1 pickup on the neck and the middle position and a JBsh4 on the bridge. I also added a permanent treble bleed and two capacitors for the tones to control the Humbacker sound in the bridge position with a different capacitor to have a more briliant sound

[duncanslunchuk]

Hello, brilliant, this is the first time I’ve seen anyone try a mod like this apart from me!
Mine’s also a MM Silhouette (w/trem). I couldn’t handle the blade as I kept knocking it when playing any serious rhythm stuff, so I put in a low profile 3 way slider for the HBs only, toggle for the middle SC (on in phase-off-on out of phase) and push pull V and T for each HB split coils. So many tones!
Loving this mod too. Shame we can’t get MM Silos any more for knock down prices though!
Cheers for the vid!

[daveylee]

So complicated; sounds great, but several combinations sound so similar it’s almost too subtle for my ears. My HSH project is set up with 2 dpdt on/off/on switches for the double coils and a push/push button for the mid single coil. With independent vol controls for blending. It’s amazing how much can be so simple. The bridge pup is phase wired on 1 side of the switch and blended with the vol pots makes some beautiful tones. Of course the neck pup is full or split. Works for me. PEACE!

[skipdustyvinylband]

hi, i have a harley benton h/s/h dont really like sound of the pickups.what pickups would you say work best for h/s/h?one where the middle pickup doesnt lost so much volume and is noisy?thanks

[Eckholph]

Where can i find wire diagrams to make the gilmour mod??

[andreasalbertojuarezramos]

Im thinking doing this to my JEM JR, is it actually posible to do it with my guitar and can i get wiring diagram?

[Mardekaar]

Dear Valentine, I have a question, related to out-of-phase problems. I was inspired by your video/mod and plan to do it on my guitar, with active pickups.
However, I am not sure in one thing. With this Gilmour mod, it is possible to have neck humbucker + middle single coil + bridge humbucker combination.
Also, according to your video, when you do coil split, you enable only the outer coil.
On humbuckers, the neck and bridge ones have the opposite polarity of the coils, so if they are enabled together, they will be fine.
But if you put an extra single coil between them, it means you will have e.g. polarities (bridge-middle-neck).
Or if you enable the outer coils AND the middle single coil, you will have e.g. north-north-south polarities.
As I read, it creates noise and they coils will be out of phase.

But I do not hear any such issue in your video. Did you make some extra tricks (e.g. you change polarity of the middle single coil in some pickup positions)? Or you do have some noise/hum and out-of-phase effect, but not too audible?

I already created a wiring diagram which tries to minimize these effects, but if it is not too audible, I will probably just keep your original design - enable coil split.
(I forgot, I will do coil split but in left position the inner, in right the pouter coils will be enabled.)

[Boe-Yii]

Ай, ВКУСНО!!! Валентин перефендерил фендерА!!! )))

[by.daekeryyy]

Hi again, if you add a switch to be in phase or out of phase, it will works with this combinations?

[powerslave]

What do you think about this HSH config: Bridge: Dimarzio Super Distortion. Middle: Stock picku from Sterling Silo 3 Guitar. Neck: DiMarzio Liquifire.

[Lightinator]

Rad... I am thinking of modifying a guitar I have to have a middle pickup installed... I don’t have a route for the middle.. I really wonder how much that shit will cost me..

[leo]

Hello Bro, do you have any guide for this mod?

[markcap]

Good mod. Would you share the wiring diagram?

[gandsproducciones]

Hola como estas tu me ayudarías me gustaría tener el diagrama para poderle hacer lo mismo a mi guitarra hsh, me podrías ayudar con el diagrama de la electrónica para hacérselo a mi guitarra gracias

[kunurx]

This is awesome. It's the guitar I want. I wonder how much money you spent on this guitar.

[ariamii]

Am i only person who thinks they don’t have any different between pickups?😕