About DiMarzio Three-90 triple coil.

[mickmutante]

Hi everybody. this is my first Thread at the M.E.F.
I had the idea of building a triple coil pickup for a 7 strings guitar, and when I was searching some information about it, I found those VOX DiMarzio Three-90 triple coil.
http://www.voxvirage.com

It is a single coil, P-90, and Humbucker, all three in one pickup, and with a 3 way toggle you can switch between them.

I my basic pick up making knowledge, I thing they use a 3-Pickup Switch (DPDT on-on-on switch). On switch position #1: Bridge, switch position #2: Middle + Bridge, and switch position #2: Neck.

Does someone has more info about this pickup or similar, wiring schematics, etc..?

[mickmutante]

nobody..?

[grooveiron]

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quoting from the article:

Electronics

The pickups too are complete redesigns: a concept thought up by one of the design team, Eric Kirkland, and put into practice by Steve Blucher at DiMarzio, where pickups are made exclusively for Vox.

Essentially it's three coils, each with its own blade polepiece. Via a large easy-to-move mode switch, each pickup has three sounds that Vox calls clean, crunch and lead, although you could view the intended 'characters' created by the mode switch as hot output humbucker, P-90, and single-coil if it helps to visualise the sonic intent.

If you number the coils 1, 2 and 3 (the #1 coil being closest to the bridge on the bridge pickup and closest to the fingerboard on the neck pickup), then we have coils #2 and #3 in series for the lead mode; coils #1 and #3 in series for the crunch mode and coils #2 and #3 in parallel for the clean mode (all are humbucking and noiseless).

The pickups mount directly to the body with just a little rubber cushion – unlike a standard humbucker, and more like a similarly-dimensioned P-90 soapbar– and there's minimal height adjustment.

The hook-up after these new pickups and their mode switches is straightforward – another metal-tipped three-way toggle switch selects either or both pickups, then we have master volume and tone.

[jazzgal]

It would be wonderful if triple-coil pickups were available for private guitar builders to use on their models. We wouldn't mimic Vox Virages or anything.

[big_teee]

I'm curious too.
Does anyone know anything about the Vox 3-90.
I guess its got 3 coils that can be switched on or off via the toggle switch.
I don't know if this is a patented pickup or not?
How About it?
BigT