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Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
Up - bridge pickup coils, in series, in phase.
Down - neck pickup coils, in series, in phase.
Centre - neck pickup EA coil, in series, in phase, with bridge pickup DG coil.
I think that the idea was to create a slap sound without recourse to onboard active EQ or passive frequency filtering.
This last example was close to the Fender Electric XII question. As Ash hints, a pig to wire up and I'm not sure that it would sound particularly good. A blend pot might yield a more musical result - à la Rickenbacker "mystery" fifth control knob.
It doesn't matter for the hum cancelling if both coils are placed next to each other as in a conventional humbucker, or one is slid across to cover other strings as in a P bass 'humbucker'. What does matter is that with the 'split' design where one coil is moved over, each pickup half is not sensing the same harmonic on the same string in two places, and therefore less of those harmonics are filtered out by the hum cancelling process.
Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
Also, you've crossed out the N on the sticker. Does that mean they are neck pickups?
Thanks in advance for the wisdom.
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Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
Is a tapped Gibson humbucker a reversible modification? If it is reversed, should the pickup, in theory, sound as it did previously?
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A coil split only changes the pickup's sound when it's switched in ... when one coil is not shunted to ground it sounds completely like an un split humbucker. So to reverse a coil split ... just don't turn it on :-)
Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
This phenomenon may be confined to Eric Johnson, Joe Bonamassa and Nigel Tuffnel.
By comparison, I find the "2012 Honky Tonk Angel" pickup currently in the bridge position ever so slightly pedestrian.
Q1) Which of your other T-type bridge position pickups do you recommend to partner the Californian?
Q2) Are your Masterbuilt models available with raised D and G rod magnet polepieces à la 1953 Fender?
A1.
The Californian is essentially a Strat neck pickup, so will sound somewhat different to a Tele one and as such is wound with 42awg wire. A more twangy/trebly option would be for example my Masterwound Summer of Love 67 :-)
A.2 The Summer of love already has staggered poles but Mastewound are available with any stagger you want, or none at all - part of being masterwound :-)
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