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In uncovered HBs, ie, zebra kinds in, eg, a PRS SE Custom 24, the white part is placed in the same way.
On the couple or three occasions I've put HBs in mine, I've positioned them so that the side where the wire comes out is pointing towards the controls, which may be the crucial point - it certainly was for me, because with the HBs I installed, the wires weren't long enough to position them any other way.
Not sure if that helps, someone who actually knows will be along soon to correct me, I'm sure.
It definitely does in those tiny Johnny Smith jazz guitar humbuckers.
It definitely does in some DiMarzio circuits. DiMarzio sometimes glues the bar magnets in its humbuckers to the baseplates. This makes conventional polarity reversal a trifle difficult. The solution is to install the humbucker the "wrong" way around. (In the official schematic diagrams, the instructions will state whether the output cable should emerge on the high E side or the low E side.) On a pickup with twelve identical polepieces, it makes no visual difference. It may then be necessary to connect up the four conductor wires in the "wrong" order to achieve noise-cancellation in all selector switch positions.
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EDIT : Found it. Hope this link works.
Ian
Lowering my expectations has succeeded beyond my wildest dreams.
Rotating the pickup doesn't change anything - except the physical position of which coil is on when split.
It does subtly change the sound of the whole pickup because the two coils don't sound the same if they have screw and plain polepieces, and that makes a difference even when both are on. With something like a DiMarzio with two identical coils, it doesn't.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I just assumed I had done something silly or had gone crazy, so I guess it's nice to know that I hadn't!
Agreed about how it slightly changes the tone (the position of the coils/the screws etc.). Also it kind of looks "wrong", to my eyes (especially on a covered pickup).
I'm guessing as well that, if you've used the screws specifically to affect the tone (rather than just even out outputs across strings) that that might make the individual coils sound even more different?
Yes, a friend of mine used to do that - he would raise the screw poles a millimetre or more. He liked to have all the switching options and wasn't really a humbucker player at all, by his own admission - he just liked PRSs, Eggles etc - so having two distinctly different single coil sounds was his preference.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I tend to raise the polepieces a bit because I seem to prefer the sound that way, it tends to make things brighter. I'll probably change my mind tomorrow about this, though...
You won’t be very surprised to find I don’t really like it beyond a small amount .
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Turns out that decent PAFs sound a lot better than cheapy humbuckers. Who knew?