How to Avoid 'Out of Phase' with Single Coil Pickups - Tone Geek Series #1
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- Опубліковано 5 лип 2023
- In this video, the first of our Tone Geek Series, Paul Best takes you through understanding polarity issues with Single Coil pickups, what a single coil is and how to avoid the dreaded 'Out of Phase' issues when mixing single coils from different manufacturers. A real in depth one, this! Enjoy!
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Excellent and simple explanation! Thanks😊 Vincenzo , Rome (Italy)
Great explanation, thank you, very interesting!!
Man... I understand zero about this stuff, and with all this walk through mega hyper detailed info, I feel I can do it all myself...
I would like and subscribe tons of times, thank you very very much
Very clear, very concise. Thank you for taking the time to make this video.
In all the years I've been around guitars that's the clearest best description I've ever seen ta
Thank you so much buddy!
Thanks for sharing Paul, this was really interesting and I've actually learned something today 😀. All the best, Thor
Glad you enjoyed! Thank you Thor!
Very clear and useful, thanks!
Hi great vid! This clarifies things for me. Do you have a similar vid for humbuckers?
Thank you very very much. I learned a lot from your video and am now after YEARS (!) enabled to understand the game with not fitting hight end single coils from different companies.
I think the companies should minimum giving information from which site they wire and if they use south or north magnets.
The case, that they do not so is a kind of playing with the customers and the money, they invest! 👎
But thank you very much for your video 👍👍👍🎶🎸
What would cause hum noise when hum-cancel is built-in to the electroncs setup? My Strat features hum cancel on positions 2 and 4. But it has loud line hum on #4, neck and middle, that sounds like an open patch chord!
cool man!
Help…. I thought the magnets had to to be south - North - south on a Strat ? I’m confused 😕👍
Really helpful video! I've got two questions: 1.) You're mentioning this in the video, but: Say I have two PUs out of phase and the only thing I technically would have to change to make them in phase is the winding direction, is it a luthier's no-no to just flip hot and ground on the wiring at the pot/switch? I've done this before and I kinda felt bad ... 2.) Is it correct that you can also find out the winding direction by measuring the DC resistance of a PU and then if you touch the magnetic pole pieces with a piece of metal the resistance goes either up or down depending on the direction? If this is actually true, it means you could find out the winding direction without actually having to look at the pickups while they're buried underneath the pickguard.
Hi Fraenk! Absolutely spot on on both counts. Damn, I was so close to putting the multimeter trick in the video! I wouldn’t frown upon the switch question you had 👍
@fraenkiboii Holy crap. I just learned this from your comment. Saved me from taking apart a build. I was overthinking the combined volume drop. Turns out I had it correct all along. @RadioshopPickups The multimeter trick would put this video over the top. Consider adding it. I was doubting myself due to articles and videos that lacked your clarity. Thanks to you both.
Paul you've made a mistake A rw/rp pair of coils wired in parallel IS a humbucker.
Diddorol iawn. Diolch am rannu
Croeso cynnes iti!
Oh my god. You could just say: switch the black an white string.
But doing that wouldn’t explain why you would want to do that. I think this video clearly describes WHY you are performing the action rather than just blindly doing it without knowledge. Too many people want a quick fix without knowing why they’re doing what they’re doing. It wouldn’t sound very good if someone asked me why I would do that to their pickup I was working on and I just said “I don’t know” the difference between doing something and knowing why you’re doing something. Also switching black and white cables doesn’t always solve the issue.