[Leon]

Tell me this. What does a guitar with 2 HBs sound like when switched to the middle position? Is it like having a single-coil rail in the middle?

If the humbuckers are 4 conductor, you can wire them pretty much any way you want. I've got a HH guitar with a three-way switch with this config:

\ = Bridge
| = Neck-side coil of Neck
/ = Neck

...because I love the sound of a neck single coil.

 

[Leon]

I was just wondering when you have a HH guitar in the middle position where both HBs are selected if it sounds like the guitar is using a middle pickup. Not raw and raunchy like the bridge but not warm and fuzzy like the neck. An in between sound just like a middle HB. Maybe something like parallel or series wiring does this? I don't know what either of those it is that would get me what I want. Can someone clarify?

A parallel HB will sound more like a single, definitely. I had a config on another guitar where the tone and volume knobs were push/pull. They activated a series/parallel switch. The tone switched the bridge, and the volume switched the neck. It was pretty killer, especially in the middle position, because you could mix a series neck and parallel bridge, two parallel HB's, etc, etc.

Or, you could go with the Petrucci wiring. His was kinda like this:

\ = bridge
| = inner coils of the HB's
/ = neck

He claims that just running the inner coils of the HB's makes a very strat-like tone, or something :lol:

 

[Leon]

Closing it? :lol:

 

[Leon]

I can, because I'm a mod, but later on down the road someone else might have a similar problem, and will want to chime in.