Humbucker tricks
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Robert S.
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Re: Humbucker tricks
Phase: The phase switch changes the hot and ground leads of the neck pick and creates a mid cancelled, nasal type of tone. Page uses it once in awhile and Peter Greene was known to use out of phase pickups as well. It sort of sounds like a phaser pedal without the sweep and sounds cool if you use a wah pedal as a mid boost at the same time. The phase switch also corrects the phase of the split humbuckers when the coils are connected in series.
Series/Parallel: Guitar pickups and normally wired into the guitar in parallel. Wiring the pickups in series tends to add a little signal. With the humbuckers on full and in series you get a slight volume and mids increase, at least to my ears. With the humbuckers split and connected in series you are actually taking one coil from each pickup and combining them to make a humbucker. It is simular to the middle position on a PRS with the 5 way rotary.
Use the schematic off of the Gibson site.
Phase: The phase switch changes the hot and ground leads of the neck pick and creates a mid cancelled, nasal type of tone. Page uses it once in awhile and Peter Greene was known to use out of phase pickups as well. It sort of sounds like a phaser pedal without the sweep and sounds cool if you use a wah pedal as a mid boost at the same time. The phase switch also corrects the phase of the split humbuckers when the coils are connected in series.
Series/Parallel: Guitar pickups and normally wired into the guitar in parallel. Wiring the pickups in series tends to add a little signal. With the humbuckers on full and in series you get a slight volume and mids increase, at least to my ears. With the humbuckers split and connected in series you are actually taking one coil from each pickup and combining them to make a humbucker. It is simular to the middle position on a PRS with the 5 way rotary.
Use the schematic off of the Gibson site.
blueman335
Mojo's Minions
Re: Humbucker tricks
Another vote for the Page system. I have it in my LP & 335; did the wiring myself. Lots of tone options, so you can add a lttle of this or a little of that, very hand at a gig to fit the room acoustics. Best thing is the push-pulls, so you're not drilling holes in your guitar (never use mini-toggles!).
Another vote for the Page system. I have it in my LP & 335; did the wiring myself. Lots of tone options, so you can add a lttle of this or a little of that, very hand at a gig to fit the room acoustics. Best thing is the push-pulls, so you're not drilling holes in your guitar (never use mini-toggles!).
hanumanlangur
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Re: Humbucker tricks
I think more bass as well, and the tone is generally fuller and more punchy. Parallel tends to have more overtones, lower output, etc.
I think more bass as well, and the tone is generally fuller and more punchy. Parallel tends to have more overtones, lower output, etc.