This has probably been covered elsewhere on the forums, but I want to make sure I understand things correctly by making the question relevant to what I'm doing.
For this example we'll use a HH guitar with a 3 way toggle switch.
For a pickup phase switch, it's my understanding that:
1) It doesn't matter which pickup you set to be out of phase--the tone is the same.
2) The toggle switch has to be in the middle for the sound to work because the pickups have to interact with each other to be out of phase.
It was my hope that the neck pickup alone could be set out of phase and isolated with the toggle in the neck position. The main reason for this is to thin out a muddy neck pickup, whereas a tone knob might be used to thicken up a bright neck pickup. Ideally this could be done on the same guitar so the neck pickup could always be dialed in to create the desired tone.
Since my bridge pickup tones don't need to be nearly as versatile as the neck, I'm not as concerned about the bridge.
So, is there a way to isolate a neck pickup only out of phase, or can it only be out of phase in the middle toggle position?
If it can't be isolated, the only way I can think of around this is to have independent volume controls for each pickup, turn the bridge pickup all the way down, flick the phase switch, and then only have the neck pickup playing out of phase.
My understanding is independent volume controls get rid of treble as you turn them down, but hopefully with a phase switch on this might be counteracted somewhat.
Thanks as always.
For this example we'll use a HH guitar with a 3 way toggle switch.
For a pickup phase switch, it's my understanding that:
1) It doesn't matter which pickup you set to be out of phase--the tone is the same.
2) The toggle switch has to be in the middle for the sound to work because the pickups have to interact with each other to be out of phase.
It was my hope that the neck pickup alone could be set out of phase and isolated with the toggle in the neck position. The main reason for this is to thin out a muddy neck pickup, whereas a tone knob might be used to thicken up a bright neck pickup. Ideally this could be done on the same guitar so the neck pickup could always be dialed in to create the desired tone.
Since my bridge pickup tones don't need to be nearly as versatile as the neck, I'm not as concerned about the bridge.
So, is there a way to isolate a neck pickup only out of phase, or can it only be out of phase in the middle toggle position?
If it can't be isolated, the only way I can think of around this is to have independent volume controls for each pickup, turn the bridge pickup all the way down, flick the phase switch, and then only have the neck pickup playing out of phase.
My understanding is independent volume controls get rid of treble as you turn them down, but hopefully with a phase switch on this might be counteracted somewhat.
Thanks as always.
Comment