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I mixed a Neovin high output Tele neck pickup with a Power rail bridge pickup.
They are wired in parallel through a selector switch. Both center taps go to a push pull pot. The Tele pickup sounds muffled, selecting both gives a thin shrieking high end, and bridge only sounds like a humbucker bridge should.
I am using a Gibson style bridge with a 12" radius. The Tele pickup pole pieces are past the top and last string, so these two strings are muffled. Also, the radius of the Tele pickup is smaller than 12"

I have decided to risk ruining my finished guitar and route the neck pickup cavity to fit a humbucker.
I have a normal humbucker pair I would like to use.
Before I proceed, would it be worth trying a different wiring setup?
Basically, I was trying for a Fender and Gibson sound on the same guitar.
I suspect some of my problem may be using the high impedance overwound pickups.
Thanks for suggestions,
Dan

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I would rewire it very simply,
without coil taps,
and maybe just from the pickups to an output jack,
and hear how it sounds.
I have a problem guitar that I tried rewiring differently 6 times,
and it still ain't right.
I'm guessing it's because one pup is a high output humbucker,
and the other is a p-90 type.
Seems like it should work though.
I went with 2 vol pots,
and 1 tone, no switch.
Maybe that's why it doesn't work properly.
It does sound good though.
The tone pot acts weird.
Good luck!

Thanks Alan,
I measured the tele pickup at 7.6k ohms and the bridge at 16k ohms.
Quite a mis-match. I'm going to try swapping the bridge PU with a normal humbucker.
I had a thought of using a busted or cheap guitar as a test bench. I could route a large area to temporarily place pickups, and buld a universal control panel, maybe with terminal blocks to allow quick wiring test changes as well as pickup combos. It's a real pain to replace and rewire a pickup on a finished guitar.
Dan

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