Guitar tech rant no. 1 of ???
This one's going to be a bit of a rant, so read at your own risk.
A while back my friend and I built a guitar together, the first time either of us had done something like that. I had dabbled in guitar modding and had replaced pickups but nothing to that extent. Despite my previous experience, I put in a fancy (and expensive) solderless wiring harness because I assumed I'd be swapping pick-ups a lot, which was true, and that soldering would be too hard.
Let me tell you something, trying to get one of those tiny little humbucker wires into the tiny little socket with the latch you need to hold open is so hard. I wasted three hours of my life just trying to flip the phase of one of the humbuckers so I could use the middle position, something that would've probably taken me just 30 minutes if I had just soldered it all together, even with the coil split, I think.
After all that, I think I still like the edge of break-up sound I get with the bridge going through the AC30 more, we'll have to see though. The middle position works better in a low(er) gain context. At least the pick-ups work very well together, despite being from different makers.
