Custom 24 pickups question

[Dedalus]

I recently purchased a Custom 24. The ad copy describes the pickup functionality with the 5-way blade a completely different way than the book that came with the guitar does. (See below.) How do I know which is correct? (The book also contains information about other PRS models.) Am I looking at the right one?

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[Bowtiefanatc]

Reads exactly the same to me. What is off to you?

 

[Dedalus]

Reads exactly the same to me. What is off to you?

Position one (down) treble pickup.

 

[Dedalus]

Bridge humbucker = treble pickup? Maybe it's the terminology that is confusing me. I've always referred to pickups as either single coil or humbucker. 'Treble pickup' is what, exactly - single coil or humbucker?

 

[SinSir]

They read the same

 

[SinSir]

Treble = bridge
Bass = neck

 

[Proteus]

Both pickups are, in form factor and electrical design, humbuckers. One coil of each can be shut off (more or less), leaving the remaining coil to work and sound (more or less) like a single-coil pickup.

So, perhaps confusingly, multiple descriptors might apply to the same pickup. IE, what most of us call the bridge pickup is, in PRS terminology, the treble pickup. And it can be in either humbucking (both coils on) or single-coil (only one one) mode. The "treble" (bridge) pickup can be either a humbucker - or a single-coil in function.

 

[Dedalus]

Both pickups are, in form factor and design, humbuckers. One coil of each can be shut off (more or less), leaving the remaining coil to work and sound a single-coil pickup.

So, perhaps confusingly, multiple descriptors might apply to the same pickup. IE, what most of us call the bridge pickup is, in PRS terminology, the treble pickup. And it can be in either humbucking (both coils on) or single-coil (only one one) mode. The "treble" (bridge) pickup can be either a humbucker - or a single coil in function.

This is helpful, thank you.

 

[Dedalus]

Thanks all. So - to confirm: position 1 (down) activates the bridge humbucker, which is also described as the treble pickup.

 

[Bowtiefanatc]

That is correct.