MIM Jag-stang - Both pickups sound

[leokula]

Hi all!

I just got a fiesta red MIM Jag-Stang. I used to own a japanese one some 20 years ago and traded it for a jaguar at the time. Now I got one of the newer ones.

There's something with the sound of this guitar when both pickups are on... it sounds like a strat! It's so weird, it's got that position 2 and 4 quack to it that I would never expect from this... My CIJ sounded just like a Mustang.

I know the humbucker is kinda hot and dark and all, but I wouldn't think this would make that big of a change when engaging both pickups.

I haven't opened it or taken to a luthier yet, but anybody has any guesses to what this could be? The out of phase pickups sound real thin and hollow like I would expect, but on the same phase, they have a strat quack that, as absurd as it sounds, makes me think the coils on the humbucker are out of phase with each other.

[alexpigment]

The strat quack sound is about a) pickup distance, and b) the natural frequencies of each individual pickup and how they interact in parallel. I suspect that the difference compared to the CIJ is just the pickups being entirely different models. The new MIM model has a Shawbucker in the bridge and a “65 Strat” pickup in the neck.

According to the wiring diagram, there are no coil splitting tricks in the middle position:

https://www.fmicassets.com/Damroot/Orig ... -STANG.pdf