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I have just seen on basspartsressource.com that the four conductor of a bucker could be used for split or phase option.

What kind of variation in sound does the phase option give?

Phase has no hum as far as i know

When you connect a humbucker out-of-phase with itself, you cause the signals of the two coils to cancel each other out. But the cancellation isn't total, or complete. Low frequencies tend to cancel better than high frequencies so you get a thin tinny sound. The couple of times that I've done it, it was by accident, and I thought it sounded horrible.

But then again, its a popular quot;modquot; by many people. Its just one that I don't get.

It's a good sound... for certain, extremely abnormal situations. Certainly not a staple effect.

So it is actually the same thing as if you were flipping the magnet and get polarity inverted?

Do you know of any songs on which we can hear humbuckers out of phase?


Originally Posted by Jazz RockSo it is actually the same thing as if you were flipping the magnet and get polarity inverted?

Ok, we need to clarify a couple things. The term quot;out of phasequot; refers to two different things:

1. Having one entire pickup out-of-phase with another in a two-pickup guitar. (Two, or more, actually.) This doesn't require 4 wires. You just reverse the hot and ground of one pup relative to the other. You'll still get the thin, tinny sound, but not quite as bad as #2 below. btw - This would also be the same as flipping the magnet.

2. Wiring a single 4-conductor humbucker out-of-phase. This would be reversing the polarity of one coil relative to the other, and would usually be done with a push/pull switch so that you can operate the pup in its quot;normalquot; configuration also. Since the two coils are more closely coupled, the thin, tinny part would be even more pronounced. This mode would not be hum-cancelling. Originally Posted by Funky PPhase has no hum as far as i know

See #2 above.

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