Is this possible?

[70Seven]

In a Rg550, 5 way position switch, HSH, is it possible to have the pickups wired like this

Pos 1 : Bridge
Pos 2 : Bridge + Middle
Pos 3 : Middle
Pos 4 : Neck + Middle
Pos 5 : Neck

I never use positions 2 and 4, the middle (single coil) I rarely use, but if I could use this connection and use a high output single coil it could sound interesting with a bridge and neck pickups with similar output. Is it possible to wire pickups like this? Its always in coil splitting which I find sounds terrible most of the time.

[rty13ibz98]

sure, that's easy. all you have to do is unsolder the tapped side of the switch. everything on the "other" side of where the single coil is. on the ibanez special 5, its a ground wire and the "tapped"(black and white for dimarzio) pairs. just detach those from the 5 way(you can leave the ground, won't hurt anything) and leave the hots from the neck, mid, and bridge: going to the hot of the volume pot and it will do exactly what you want! standard strat style switching.

rich