Which coil scheme is more useful

[Bowtomecha]

Which is more useful, inner coils of humbuckers in parallel and hum canceling, or inner coils in series and canceling but with a partial split?
I’m thinking that in parallel, they retain more of the in between quack, but in series and with a partial split, they would be louder and could be more balanced with the other humbucker positions. But I’m not sure of how the tone would be. Since the coils involved are from different pickups, I think the humbucking effects would be skewed so I’m not sure if the series with partial split would be even noisier or not.

 

[Chistopher]

It depends on you and the pickups

 

[Mincer]

I love the inner coils in parallel, and never cared for any series pairing of 2 coils of different humbuckers...partial split or not. The parallel version is quieter, but also strattier, in a delightful way.

 

[Artie]

I agree with Mincer. And two coils don't need to be exactly the same to still be reasonably hum-cancelling.