Ramon Goose
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Peter’s original neck pickup kept cutting out so someone at the shop where he bought it in London rewound it with poly wire and flipped the magnet. I’ve heard that the bobbins were wound in reverse and between that and the magnet is what created that sound. I guess we’d have to check with Kurt in Metallica since he owns the guitar now. He’s a big guitar nerd as well so I bet he knows exactly... someone here may know as it changed hands a couple of times over the last 10-12 years.
To make the two signals from the two pickups out of phase with each other you have to do one but not the other.
Certainly on their own an out of phase pup will sound very much the same, however when in the middle position they will fight where both volume pots are set the same and all the bass falls away - thin and nasally I would describe it as. I have a ‘59 355 mono that does this and the magnets on the bridge pup are flipped to what is “normal”. Can’t speak to the coil winding without pulling it apart, which won’t happen unless it needs to. Running the volumes offset - one you get used it - brings some joy with some great sounds and crunch we couldn’t get on the 60 “normal” wired mono that we compared it to - the 59 smoked itThis is true... and FWIW either way sounds exactly the same to my ear.
Certainly on their own an out of phase pup will sound very much the same, however when in the middle position they will fight where both volume pots are set the same and all the bass falls away - thin and nasally I would describe it as. I have a ‘59 355 mono that does this and the magnets on the bridge pup are flipped to what is “normal”. Can’t speak to the coil winding without pulling it apart, which won’t happen unless it needs to. Running the volumes offset - one you get used it - brings some joy with some great sounds and crunch we couldn’t get on the 60 “normal” wired mono that we compared it to - the 59 smoked it
Certainly on their own an out of phase pup will sound very much the same, however when in the middle position they will fight where both volume pots are set the same and all the bass falls away - thin and nasally I would describe it as. I have a ‘59 355 mono that does this and the magnets on the bridge pup are flipped to what is “normal”. Can’t speak to the coil winding without pulling it apart, which won’t happen unless it needs to. Running the volumes offset - one you get used it - brings some joy with some great sounds and crunch we couldn’t get on the 60 “normal” wired mono that we compared it to - the 59 smoked it