I installed my pickups thinking that the higher numbers went closest to the neck, and never liked how my guitar sounded. I suspected that I had it backwards. Thanks.
Good god, I've only just started to work on guitars and i just realized, my guitar has probably a neck pickup in the bridge spot and a bridge pickup in the middle LOL
I have p90s for my Johnny A style kit I’m building. One has a red wire and one has a black wire. Would you know which pickup is which by that? My multimeter blew up on me and I haven’t haven’t had the chance to buy another one. So I haven’t been able to try this method.
I always wondered if there was a resistance difference.... Is there any difference to putting them the right way round and flipping them so the right and left are switched? Would that result in a pickup being out of phase much like the Mustang has a switch to do that ?
If you change the orientation of the pickup (right side up but turned around) in the same guitar body position, tone changes depends on the pole pieces. On these Jazzmaster pickups, there would not be much of a tone change with reverse orientation since the poles have a standard fretboard arc. On Stratocaster pickups with staggered pole pieces, yes there would be a difference since a Strat stagger has a high G pole piece which then changes to a high D pole turned around. I'm pretty sure that would sound weird. Swapping bridge-to-neck positions rarely sounds right regardless of orientation or whether flipped. Flipping over a pickup and keeping its same body position affects the brightness (treble) response. There's a whole thread on it here that should answer all your questions about it. www.seymourduncan.com/forum/showthread.php?38269-turning-pickups-upside-down
I have a fender squire that I'm upgrading. It has a spot for a hum bucker and 2 other pickups. do I put the hum bucker, neck pickup, and bridge pickup in and leave the middle pickup out? sorry if its a dumb question, i,m new to all this.
You don't have to have 3 pickups and can leave the middle spot blank if you want. You can look here to see all the different types of pick guards for Strats, there are different types for 1-pickup, 2-pickup or 3-pickup, your choice dragonfireguitars.com/Strat_c89.htm
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I installed my pickups thinking that the higher numbers went closest to the neck, and never liked how my guitar sounded. I suspected that I had it backwards. Thanks.
Good god, I've only just started to work on guitars and i just realized, my guitar has probably a neck pickup in the bridge spot and a bridge pickup in the middle LOL
learned something , thank you
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I have p90s for my Johnny A style kit I’m building. One has a red wire and one has a black wire. Would you know which pickup is which by that? My multimeter blew up on me and I haven’t haven’t had the chance to buy another one. So I haven’t been able to try this method.
I always wondered if there was a resistance difference.... Is there any difference to putting them the right way round and flipping them so the right and left are switched? Would that result in a pickup being out of phase much like the Mustang has a switch to do that ?
If you change the orientation of the pickup (right side up but turned around) in the same guitar body position, tone changes depends on the pole pieces. On these Jazzmaster pickups, there would not be much of a tone change with reverse orientation since the poles have a standard fretboard arc. On Stratocaster pickups with staggered pole pieces, yes there would be a difference since a Strat stagger has a high G pole piece which then changes to a high D pole turned around. I'm pretty sure that would sound weird.
Swapping bridge-to-neck positions rarely sounds right regardless of orientation or whether flipped.
Flipping over a pickup and keeping its same body position affects the brightness (treble) response. There's a whole thread on it here that should answer all your questions about it. www.seymourduncan.com/forum/showthread.php?38269-turning-pickups-upside-down
I have a fender squire that I'm upgrading. It has a spot for a hum bucker and 2 other pickups. do I put the hum bucker, neck pickup, and bridge pickup in and leave the middle pickup out? sorry if its a dumb question, i,m new to all this.
You don't have to have 3 pickups and can leave the middle spot blank if you want. You can look here to see all the different types of pick guards for Strats, there are different types for 1-pickup, 2-pickup or 3-pickup, your choice dragonfireguitars.com/Strat_c89.htm
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Nicely done! I've been confused w/ R &T labels in the past, so this is a big help!
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