Crusty wrote:
Well I've had some time with it now and all I can say is WOW!!!!! I thought I wouldn't like these pickups but much to my surprise I love them. Plays like butter too. Worth every penny I spent. I've also decided I like the series/parallel option. It works well with these pickups where it didn't all that well on most of my Duncan equipped guitars.
MMK53s tend to be a bit muddy in the neck position. Parallel operation helps a lot to tighten the bass response.
For my PE-R80s (Dimarzio and MMK versions), I usually have the bridge pickup in series and the neck pickup in parallel when playing. Never liked the coil split sound on those.
I used to have a set of SH1s in a PE-60 for some time... but I always used them in series wiring when playing.