SMellmo Posted May 31, 2004 Report Share Posted May 31, 2004 Ok everyone, i need a little help here !! I have been looking at some pickups wiring diagrams and some of them had phase reversing switches and serie/parallel switches what is phase reversing and serie parallel switch ?? how does it affect the sound ?!?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truerussian558 Posted May 31, 2004 Report Share Posted May 31, 2004 i think you would a lot better responces in the electronics forum, since the electronic junkies hang out there i know the technical aspect of series and paralel switches, one switch sets the pickups in a series connected on the same wire -----pickup1------pickup2------ and the other parallel where the pickups are parallel |--------pickup 1--------| ---| |----------- |--------pickup2---------| i dont know how this affects tone, but im guessing that in a series anything that affects the first pickup affects the output from the second pickup and in a parrallel circuit it bleeds together more unifromaly, and you can control the amount of bleeding Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stalefish Posted May 31, 2004 Report Share Posted May 31, 2004 What series and parallel mean electronically has been mentioned by Truerussian558 so I shan't repeat that.. Tone-wise, pickups in series would be 'hotter' than those in parallel.. One other interesting thing you could do is to wire the 2 'halves' (forgotten the term for them) of a humbucker in parallel with each other.. Normally, they'd be in series.. I've tried this with a couple of DiMarzio humbuckers and the parallel wired humbucker sounds almost single-coil like... Almost.. But not quite.. Got more snap than your usual series humbucker sound.. Also not as thick.. That's when it's clean, by the way.. With the distortion or od on, there isn't too much of a different.. Hope that helped!! And, yes, it's in the wrong section.. Almost forgot.. When phase reversing, or rather, when 2 pickups are wired 'out of phase', the 2 signals generated by the 2 pickups kinda 'cancel' each other out, though not to the point that you get nothing.. This is because the 2 signals aren't identical due to their position and wiring etc... Long story short, you'll get a kinda hollowed out sort of sound.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SMellmo Posted June 1, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 1, 2004 geez i posted that topic in a hurry that i did not see the electronic section! thanks for the help guys. it helped Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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