I have a bass set up so I can put each pup in parallel, series, single-coil-bridge or single-coil-neck.
One thing I have learned from this is using the same pup, the two single coil sounds are almost the same.
There are interesting (as well as some that are not that interesting) that you can get by activating 2, 3 or 4 coils, as well as serial sand parallel combos. I sometimes like just 1 coil, always in the neck pup. Doesn't seem to matter which. I never solo the bridge pup--too nasel for me.
I think a volume control could be used to turn the coils on and off, especially if they are no-load pots. If they are not no-load, at full volume the additional pots--I think--are going to add resistance and cut some of the highs. When you turn them down they will add even more resistance and further darken the sound. You can add treble bleeds to the volume pots, but that is only a partial solution. Also if you have different resistance/volume on the two coils of a humbucker it no longer bucks hum. Also true if you turn one coil down in a humbucker circuit.
The other problem I have, and you could end up with, is that you have so many options, and complex controls that in the heat of the moment you can forget what all the combos do. Mine has three three-way switches, four two-way, stacked volume pots, a treble cut pot, and a bass cut pot. Any more options and my head would explode. Fortunately, I have discovered that I really only like about three of the 60+ combinations and I can remember those ;-) But in retrospect I'd have been just as happy with a simpler control setup that gave me just the options I actually use...
You might consider building the control circuit outside the guitar so you can try a few things before you commit to installing it all...
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