turning pickups upside down?

Dankerella

Dankerella

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I only know of Dimebag doing this with his Bill Lawrence, turning his bridge p/up upside down. Would this really have an effect? Anyone tried it with a Lawrence or Duncan? Was the Duncan Dimebucker designed so that it's already been flipped? Am I flipped? Anyone like flip wilson?
 
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Dime flipped the bridge upside down to make it a tad less bright...Seafoamer has his bridge bucker upside down in his number 1 strat. Peter green flipped his neck pickup upsidedown so it would be a little brighter...
 
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Dankerella said:
Am I flipped? Anyone like flip wilson?
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Who?

:laugh2:

Seriously I never heard of that before... hopefully Seafoamer will see this and comment.
 
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If you turn it upside down, the legs will be up, and the thingy with the logo will be down. How are you going to keep it in the guitar?
 
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Ok, I actually turned my bridge APH bucker around....and MAYBE it made a difference. I'm going to turn it again when I change strings.....I really can't tell that much.
 
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The effect would be minimal, more noticable if the pickup has mismatched coils...

There would probably be a difference, but I doubt that most of us would hear it, even on soundclips ;)
 
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Assuming you are talking about rotating a pickup. LewGuitar has posted about Wes Montgomery doing this with his neck PUP on his stock guitars in the 60s. Here's a thread here he brought this up SD Forum Link
 
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I flipped the bridge p-up on my #1 because I wanted the adjustible pole pieces on the inside, which is the coil used when the p-up is split with the mini switch. I weird like that.

I also have a custom ordered double cream BRIDGE seth that I'm gonna flip & put in the NECK of my weird tele. This way I'll have a hotter seth in there, like I want.
 
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Zerberus said:
The effect would be minimal, more noticable if the pickup has mismatched coils...

There would probably be a difference, but I doubt that most of us would hear it, even on soundclips ;)
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It depends entirely on how high you have the polepieces set. If they're dead even with the slugs in the other coil, there shouldn't be any difference at all.

If you have them hiked up with the heads almost clear of the top of the bobbin, you will hear a difference -- in favor of the adjustable coil no matter which way you have it turned. It will be brighter in the conventional set-up (adjustable coil closest to bridge) and a bit beefier with a loss of treble when turned the other way (slug coil closest to bridge).

If you have them buried below the surface of the bobbin, then the slug coil becomes dominant.
 
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I tried it with my Dime and it didn't make any difference. Evan said that the coils on the Dime are evenly matched so flipping the pup around wouldn't make any difference unless you use it as a split coil and I didn't like it when split with the active coil away from the bridge, the split coil sounds a lot better when it's nearest the bridge. I flipped my APH-1n and it only sounded good when used as a split coil.


*And speaking of Flip, I watched an episode of his show the other day where he was playing the butler named Jives...l.m.a.o. :laugh2:
 
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