mountain2012
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...when a humbucker's coils kind of cancel each other out because they are seeing or sensing the string at two different places?
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What is it called...?
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Re: What is it called...?
They will never cancel simply because they see different parts of the string. It always has to do with the electrical side of things....how the coils are wired.
Parallel has some bits of cancellation, and oop has much more. In both cases the more different the location of the pickup the less cancellation there is.
They will never cancel simply because they see different parts of the string. It always has to do with the electrical side of things....how the coils are wired.
Parallel has some bits of cancellation, and oop has much more. In both cases the more different the location of the pickup the less cancellation there is.
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Funkfingers
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Re: What is it called...?
Comb filtering.
Comb filtering.
blueman335
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I thought that's what old men do, or am I thinking of 'comb-over'?
I thought that's what old men do, or am I thinking of 'comb-over'?
mountain2012
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Re: What is it called...?
Sorry to necro this but do two coils in parallel like on a filtertron experience comb filtering like a humbucker does?
I really dig the in-between positions on a strat and les paul and want less of an opaque, cloudy/muddy tone that humbuckers seem to have. I'm hoping that filtertrons might be the answer on my one-pickup les paul junior.
Sorry to necro this but do two coils in parallel like on a filtertron experience comb filtering like a humbucker does?
I really dig the in-between positions on a strat and les paul and want less of an opaque, cloudy/muddy tone that humbuckers seem to have. I'm hoping that filtertrons might be the answer on my one-pickup les paul junior.
uOpt
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Re: What is it called...?
There is cancellation. The overtones that have just the right length of "wavelength" to swing one way over one coil and the other way over the other coil are killed. That is a very noticeable effect, it gives humbuckers that drive. A single coil doesn't have that, one reason why purists use them.
The frequency that is killed can be as low as 1500 Hz, in the case of a Stingray bass with its very wide humbucker. That notch and general out of phase behavior are very much part of what makes a stingray special.
I don't think enough people think about this for a specific term to have formed. I don't think to use any term normally used for phase cancellation such as in loudspeakers since those terms are negative and there is nothing negative about this effect of a humbucker.
There is cancellation. The overtones that have just the right length of "wavelength" to swing one way over one coil and the other way over the other coil are killed. That is a very noticeable effect, it gives humbuckers that drive. A single coil doesn't have that, one reason why purists use them.
The frequency that is killed can be as low as 1500 Hz, in the case of a Stingray bass with its very wide humbucker. That notch and general out of phase behavior are very much part of what makes a stingray special.
I don't think enough people think about this for a specific term to have formed. I don't think to use any term normally used for phase cancellation such as in loudspeakers since those terms are negative and there is nothing negative about this effect of a humbucker.
swissmountain
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Re: What is it called...?
Pickups in parallel do also suffer from the comb filter effect.
Filtertrons are quite a bit brighter than PAF style humbuckers.
Pickups in parallel do also suffer from the comb filter effect.
Filtertrons are quite a bit brighter than PAF style humbuckers.
