Question about Core Mira pickups and wiring

[lchender]

Hi There,

I own a 2008 PRS Core Mira and I have a few questions regarding the pickups and pickup wiring that I'm hoping a forum member with more knowledge than I might be able to answer.

I've heard that the core Mira pickups were an uncovered version of the SC245 pickups, but have been unable to find any information to confirm. I believe the core Mira pickups are 2-wire pickups?

What I would like to do is to make the middle position hum-cancelling when the coil split is activated. From what I understand, this may be possible by flipping the magnet on one of the pickups and I had read that this is part of how the hum-cancelling positions are obtained on older PRS guitars with the 5-way rotary pickup selector.

I was wondering if flipping the magnet on one of the pickups on my Mira would make the middle position hum cancelling in coil-split mode? Also, does it matter which magnet is flipped (i.e., bridge or neck pickup)?

Thanks!

 

[garrett]

Depends on how the pickups were made. If they are just the black wire with bare braided shield, plus a white tap wire, you'll be stuck with out of phase in the middle position if you flip a magnet.

If they have red, black, white, and bare wires, you can pick either of the pickups and flip the magnet. Then you'll need to swap locations of the hot/ground wires for that pickup to get back in phase.

The other option is to change which coil gets cancelled for one of the pickups. I assume they both tap to screw coil. A common way to do it is tap the bridge pickup to the slug coil instead. You do this by tapping to hot instead of to ground. It'll change up a couple of the sounds, but you'll be hum cancelling in the middle.

 

[lchender]

Much appreciated, Garrett! I think they’re 2-wire pickups, but I’ll have a peek!

 

[SinSir]

Much appreciated, Garrett! I think they’re 2-wire pickups, but I’ll have a peek!

My 08 Mira pickups are a braided wire with white coil tap.