WHAT IS FOCUSED WIRING? – Because the coils of Rivet pickups work best when strung together in certain focused combinations, our pickup wirings have been baked into razor-blade sized cards that snap in to make the necessary wiring a breeze.
(Scroll thru the cards below. Our favorites are listed first…)
#108 CRUNCH
Toggle switch:
(#1) LEAD POSITION – a hot bridge sound using both mini coils in series
(#2) MIDDLE POSITION – all pickups on
(#3) RHYTHM POSITION – a cool Fender® neck sound, but with added highs
Toggle switch + push/pull “up”:
(#4) LEAD POSITION – a more biting Fender® single-coil lead sound, but bassier punch from the added low mini coil. Also, a mid/high bleed capacitor is activated to deliver more brightness
(#5) MIDDLE POSITION – both single-coils on plus bass mini coil
(#6) RHYTHM POSITION – a clean Fender® single-coil clear neck sound
Summary – This is our most recommended card. It has robust high output bridge sound, enhanced neck sound, plus a good variety of sounds in between. The bridge when in “split mode” still gets the bass mini, but uses a bleed capacitor to deliver extra crispness in upper mid’s.
(This card replaces card #101, and adds the bleed capacitor.)
#106 HOT BRIDGE – MINI’s ONLY
Toggle switch:
(#1) LEAD POSITION – a hot bridge sound using both mini coils
(#2) MIDDLE POSITION – a hot bridge sound with a hint of cancellation
(#3) RHYTHM POSITION – ultra “scooped” using the mini coils only
Toggle switch + push/pull “up”:
(#4) LEAD POSITION – traditional Fender® single-coil lead sound
(#5) MIDDLE POSITION – no sound – off
(#6) RHYTHM POSITION – no sound – off
Summary – This razor blade is admittedly weird, but its sound #3 is very cool: Sound #3 is pretty scooped out in midrange but it’s very useful because it’s thin and delicate and doesn’t saturate the mix. Then when you turn down the bridge pickup’s tone knob – whoa! – you get an almost “acoustic guitar-like” tone (caused by a reverse-phased bleed out of tone thru the bridge pickup, which is probably too much information – but it sounds weird and very cool!)
#109 GLASS
Toggle switch:
(#1) LEAD POSITION – a sparky hot bridge sound having the main coil in series with both mini coils which are in parallel
(#2) MIDDLE POSITION – all pickups on, mostly in parallel
(#3) RHYTHM POSITION – traditional Fender® single-coil neck sound
Toggle switch + push/pull “up”:
(#4) LEAD POSITION – traditional Fender® single-coil lead sound
(#5) MIDDLE POSITION – both single-coils on having some cancellation
(#6) RHYTHM POSITION – traditional Fender® single-coil neck sound
Summary – This is our brightest sounding wiring. It’s not so much thick or heavy, but is similar to Strat(tm)/Tele(tm) sounds though much fatter in harmonic saturation with the mini’s on in parallel.
#107 HOT BRIDGE – SINGLE NECK HACK
Toggle switch:
(#1) LEAD POSITION – a hot bridge sound using both mini coils
(#2) MIDDLE POSITION – a hot bridge sound with some cancellation
(#3) RHYTHM POSITION – traditional Fender® single-coil neck sound
Toggle switch + push/pull “up”:
(#4) LEAD POSITION – Fender® single-coil lead sound, but with solid low-end from the added bass mini coil
(#5) MIDDLE POSITION – single-coil cancellation with extra low end bass
(#6) RHYTHM POSITION – traditional Fender® single-coil neck sound
Summary – A bit like #108 CRUNCH except the neck never gets the bridge’s mini-coil. Also no bleed cap so sound #4 is not quite so edgy.
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