Matching pickups of different varieties

[Bearer]

So, I'm working on a guitar with 3 different pickups. A P90 (8.0K) in the neck, noisless single coil (gfs neovin) in the middle, and a humbucker (14K) in the bridge. All said and done, I'll be able to have all three pups on at once, neck & bridge, or all five standard strat positions. My concern is that the humbucker will over power the other two pickups because of the higher output. My solution, so far, will be to wire the humbucker in parallel with itself but hooked up to a push pull pot to change it back to series when I need it. My question is will the parallel humbucker be able to blend well with the other two? My other plan was to use a mini-humbucker in the bridge.

[Ringo]

I'd say just wire it up and try it out first, the bridge pickup should be hotter anyway , and you can always play with the pickup height on each one to try and balance them out.
Just because a pickup has a high impedance reading doesn't mean it will be a hot pickup.
Once I had a GFS humbucker that read 12K and I used it as a neck pickup, it was not a "hot" pickup, it was very clear and articulate, then I had a vintage Gibson mini humbucker that was only 6k and it was as hotter than some PAF style humbuckers I've tried.


I'd be more concerned about whether they will in phase with one another. With multi conductor humbuckers it's easy enough to fix, but the P90 if it has the vintage braided lead could be problematic, you'd probably have to match the other 2 pickups up to it.

And that you won't be able to tell either until you wire it up, unless someone here knows how to test pickups for correct phase before they are wired ?

[Bearer]

Yes, thank you. I'm getting the pickups all from GFS, and the P90 has two separate leads. The single coil and humbucker both have 4, and they should all follow the same color scheme, so I think I'll be alright.

These are what I plan on using:

• Vintage Alnico P90
• Neovin Nal9
• Fat Pat Humbucker

Hooked up like:
neck + bridge -> tele three way switch -> master volume
middle -> independent volume "blend" pot
no tone