blackcoffeeblues
Student Of The Blues
What is the story behind them-and do any of you use them?
That's what I was thinking about. I love the tone of my Gary Moore Les Paul Standard and using the neck pup. All that makes it different is the neck pup is installed in reverse which makes the magnetic flux reverse. Most comments I received at the last Lake Arrowhead BGU Live were positive.do you mean the peter green tone?
That's what I was thinking about. I love the tone of my Gary Moore Les Paul Standard and using the neck pup. All that makes it different is the neck pup is installed in reverse which makes the magnetic flux reverse. Most comments I received at the last Lake Arrowhead BGU Live were positive.
That was a myth about the Peter Green mod, but it isn’t true. Reversing the pickup has no impact on polarity and minimal impact on tone (only because the studs and screws switch positions). To put the two pickups on a LP style out of phase, you either flip the magnet OR flip the wiring. Doing this will not change the tone of either pickup alone but gives you the out of phase tone in the middle (both) switch position.
Most modern (80’s and newer, maybe earlier) strats come with the middle pickup reverse wound and reverse polarity. The double reverse means the phase is the same for the guitar signal so there is no real impact on tone. The benefit is the middle coil is out of phase with the other two coils so in positions 2 and 4, the emf noise picked up by the coils is out of phase and therefore mostly cancels. Basically the same thing that a humbucker does, but the coils are a couple inches apart.
So ... what is your opinion of those Klein '56 Epic Series pickups? https://www.kleinpickups.com/p-252-1956-epic-series-stratocaster-pickups.aspxWith that said, a few months ago I finally got around to upgrading my strat by installing the Klein pickups that I got from @Rancid Rumpboogie about 4 or 5 years ago.
I wish--do you mean the peter green tone?
Well I sure don't have any question about making a polarity tester--he covered that pretty good.So what is your question?
So ... what is your opinion of those Klein '56 Epic Series pickups? https://www.kleinpickups.com/p-252-1956-epic-series-stratocaster-pickups.aspx
I loved them because they nailed the tone I remember from the late 60's when most of my buds were playing 10-year-old Strats.
The only reason I got rid of them was that I re-wired my Strat for 10 different pickup combinations (like the bridge and neck in series) which magnified the hum, and needed to find noiseless pickups ... and found the Zexcoils it now has and that I love.
Fine. I believe the myth. My Gary Moore Les Paul Standard sounds different than both my Les Paul Custom and my Joe Bonamassa Les Paul Standard. And I'm not just talking about that the pups are different pups. It might be subjective but you can tell without just listening to the differences in the bridge pups.That was a myth about the Peter Green mod, but it isn’t true. Reversing the pickup has no impact on polarity and minimal impact on tone (only because the studs and screws switch positions). To put the two pickups on a LP style out of phase, you either flip the magnet OR flip the wiring. Doing this will not change the tone of either pickup alone but gives you the out of phase tone in the middle (both) switch position.
Most modern (80’s and newer, maybe earlier) strats come with the middle pickup reverse wound and reverse polarity. The double reverse means the phase is the same for the guitar signal so there is no real impact on tone. The benefit is the middle coil is out of phase with the other two coils so in positions 2 and 4, the emf noise picked up by the coils is out of phase and therefore mostly cancels. Basically the same thing that a humbucker does, but the coils are a couple inches apart.
I went to sleep on the reply button on the fore mentioned post--above.
I have only owned one Tele in my life----and I HATED IT----but this pickup thread is about TELECASTERS---not Strats---not Les Pauls
it is 2 single coil Tele pickups---not Humbukers or 3 pickup P90s----I mean I don't know anything about Teles,.just trying to get basic info on them. Is there a difference between reverse wound and reverse polarity---or is it the same if you turn your pickup around.and install it ???
I'm that simple.
...and here is what my Michael Kelly CC50 Fralin sounds like in the middle position first with normal phase and then with the reversal. BTW, this is through my new Spark amp.I went to sleep on the reply button on the fore mentioned post--above.
I have only owned one Tele in my life----and I HATED IT----but this pickup thread is about TELECASTERS---not Strats---not Les Pauls
it is 2 single coil Tele pickups---not Humbukers or 3 pickup P90s----I mean I don't know anything about Teles,.just trying to get basic info on them. Is there a difference between reverse wound and reverse polarity---or is it the same if you turn your pickup around.and install it ???
I'm that simple.
Fine. I believe the myth. My Gary Moore Les Paul Standard sounds different than both my Les Paul Custom and my Joe Bonamassa Les Paul Standard. And I'm not just talking about that the pups are different pups. It might be subjective but you can tell without just listening to the differences in the bridge pups.