New 24-08 wiring

[DISTORT6]

All I heard was "blah, blah, blah - HOLY CRAP! THAT TOP IS KILLER! AND THAT COLOR! - blah, blah, blah..."

 

[Andrew Paul]

All I heard was "blah, blah, blah - HOLY CRAP! THAT TOP IS KILLER! AND THAT COLOR! - blah, blah, blah..."

Yeah, that top and color is ridiculously cool, that Guitar didn’t hang around very long at the store.

 

[Floyd_Argus]

I think this is what we're dealing with. Except I dont know the value of the components

No actually. That wiring places the added cap and resistor btw the two coils. As covered in reply #34 which includes an actual photo of this PRS wiring, the added cap & resistor are being placed after the output of the full pickup in series.

 

[bluemoon]

I tend to never use coil splits. They just never sound right. With my McLaughlin I rarely engage the high pass filter when playing through one pickup (bridge or neck). Just sounds a little anemic to me. But when I blend them it is awesome. I keep the bridge pickup with the filter disengaged and the neck engaged. It sound so good. Like crazy good. And that way I can go to bridge alone or both pickups engaged.

I will say on the McLaughlin the pickups sound hotter than the TCI pickups on my Paul's Guitar. Not sure why. I assume same pickups unless they were tweaked for the McLaughlin.

 

[Domingo Lantigua]

No actually. That wiring places the added cap and resistor btw the two coils. As covered in reply #34 which includes an actual photo of this PRS wiring, the added cap & resistor are being placed after the output of the full pickup in series.

Yes but the other diagram should be correct. On guitarnutz website it says if you can get to the junction it is preferable because of some phase shift when using both pickups. Either way , I think it removes too much low end ,so the values will need to be adjusted

 

[Domingo Lantigua]

If you want a split and the shelving eq. Note the are no values , since those haven't been posted. Make sure it's a DPDT type 2 switch. You can also add a resistor to the coil split side for partial split

 

[Broseph]

I assume tci pickups have been tweaked thru the years. Much like silver sky pickups: they never announced changes or advertised them as such. Hell they incorrectly stated for quite a while that the 2024 still split the pickups when they were all tapping (aside the McLaughlin).

I do agree that the tones out of my s2 24-08 sounded even better than the previous Paul’s guitar versions. I don’t understand why they abandoned it so quickly after one year. Of course I would love to try the new layout but I’m not convinced it’s exactly a superior sound aside the total elimination of the hum.

I always thought the whole point of the tci pickups was to eliminate volume drop whenever split and get authentic single coil sounds. Of course hum would come with that. They have abandoned this in the pursuit of hum free

 

[Marco2073]

I have a Core 24-08 2024 and I found out the electronics not perfect. In particular the sound of the split pickups (or tapped) with the volume turned down becomes dark even with the pot at 9. I had to replace the Treble Bleend capacitor with an 860pf capacitor (plus resistor of 150kh in parallel) instead of the stock 180pf, and now everything is much much better. However, it left me very perplexed, because in my opinion the value of 180pf was fine only with the sound set on humbuckers.

 

[PXR5]

Personally id rather have a 3 way toggle for each pickup where middle is wide open tone. Then the other 2 positions are pre set eq. One just rolling a little of the top off and the second to help with the liquid lead type sound and then have 2 volume controls with push pull for the partial coil taps.
3 way switch. I think that would be much more versatile.