A good and useful distribution of the tone controls is one 500k pot for only the bridge humbucker and the other one 250k for the two single-coils.Here are my two cents regarding such a wiring: In more than 20 years, I have tried every variation of such jack-of-all-trades wirings and not a single one really worked in a useable way. My personal recommendation: Forget about it. Digging deeper at this point is too much for this column but may be a good subject for a follow-up. Good idea, but unfortunately the road to hell is paved with good resolutions. Often 500k pots are used for an auto-split wiring, incorporating some additional resistors to “convert” them to 250k for the single-coil pickups. We discussed this just a few months ago in “ Mod Garage: How to Triple Shot Your Humbuckers.” If you want all four possible sounds from your bridge humbucker, an additional rotary switch is the way to go.This operation can’t be done from a push-pull or push-push pot-you need an additional 3-way toggle for this. If you want more, you can use a DPDT on-on-on switch like the DiMarzio “multi-sound switch” to get all three sounds from your bridge humbucker.You can also use any standard push-pull or push-push pot, or the Fender S-1 switch, for this operation, so you don’t have to alter the appearance of your guitar. This can also be used to get the in-between sound together with the middle pickup. With a simple 2-way toggle switch you can shut down one of the coils to ground to get an additional single-coil-like tone from the bridge pickup.Because you can shut down both coils to ground leaving the other coil active, it’s four different tones you can squeeze out of a humbucker and, depending on what you want, there are several possibilities to get these tones:
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