Members pluginbabies Posted June 28, 2013 Members Share Posted June 28, 2013 I've been doing some wiring mods to my 2-humbucker home-made guitar. I have switching for Series/Split/Parallel for each pickup, and a switch to put the bridge pickup out of phase with the neck.It seems to work okay, when i split both humbuckers and put them out of phase - i get that nice strat-esque quack. However, when in-phase, the single coils are hum cancelling, when out of phase the hum doubles!!Any idea how i can fix this - can i have it hum cancelling when split pickups are both in and out of phase? If not, i prefer the out of phase sound, so having it hum cancelling for that would be better.What do i have to do - spin a pickup round? Turn around a magnet? Or change the way one or both pickups are wired? I'm pretty competent with wiring but this has got me stumped! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pluginbabies Posted June 28, 2013 Author Members Share Posted June 28, 2013 Okay, I've done a bit of reading up - so the strat 2/4 positions aren't actually out of phase - the out of phase setting on this guitar does have a similar sound though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lz4005 Posted June 28, 2013 Members Share Posted June 28, 2013 Doubling hum when out of phase makes sense. When two coils hum cancel you are combining -1 and +1 to get 0. When you put one of those out of phase you get +2.Have you tried doing the out of phase sound with the other coil of the bridge pickup? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members honeyiscool Posted June 28, 2013 Members Share Posted June 28, 2013 Try another approach. Split to inner vs split to outer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pluginbabies Posted June 28, 2013 Author Members Share Posted June 28, 2013 honeyiscool - would that make much of a difference? If i swap just one pickup to the other coil, won't it not be hum-cancelling any more as they'll be the same polarity - if i swap both pickups to the other coil, won't that just give the same issue as i have now - either the inphase or outofphase setting will have double-hum?Forgive my ignorance if I'm wrong - just trying to understand this a bit better! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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