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What are the middle and neck pickups in the Soloist SL1?
What are the middle and neck pickups in the Soloist SL1?
The website doesn't list what is in those positions. Are they stacked single coils? If so is the guitar wired to split those for true single coil sounds?
I am considering an SL1 or SL2 at this point.
They are single coils. STK-1's I believe - the same as you will also find in the DK2. If you want more options, go for the SL2H and replace the two pots with push/pull type pots so you can coil-split both the bridge and neck pickups.
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According to Duncan, the stacks only offer humbucking properties, but the bottom coil is too far away from the strings to affect the tone other than hum-cancellation i.e. you can't wire them in parallel and get the same sound as you would out of say a regular side-by-side humbucker.
Therefore, splitting them would only give you 60 Hz hum.
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I am not a big fan of the duncan stacked singles the STK-1. As newc said, they do offer humbucking properties, but they dont sound like a humbucker. so dont be mislead. I replaced the neck in my SL1 with a duncan cool rails, and in my DK1 I put a duncan lil' 59 (single coil sized version of the 59).
I'm actually a huge fan of these pickups. They really do just what this thread has been saying: they cancel the hum but still sound like a single coil. Really, really good for clean sounds and espectially that 4th position - for Stevie ray or mark knopfler tones.
Remember, this guitar evolved from a strat. This one of the few throwbacks that still exist in it.
The scope of the STK-1 and all the stacked humbuckers in general is not to sound like an humbucker but to sound as a single coil without hum, that's the point!
The SL1 was meant to have SC and HB sounds, therefore the choice of the STK-1 is obvious, but in that class of pickups I prefer the Dimarzio VV Solo or Blues 2, that have much more output than the Duncans.
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