alright, seriously now, who actaully plays with coils out of phase. im not too big on that sound, yes that cancels the noise in common, but it cancels a lot of the sound in common that i want. so then answer this, how do you make a hum reduced single coil, alone. start there, then you can find out how to make a mismatched humbucker (in phase!) that cancels hum. when you say two coils mismatched in series are quiet, but two matched coils in series are quieter, then the mismatched coils are not hum cancelling. you are avoiding the problem by coming up with solutions that halfway work. im writing a paper on this for school, but mostly i want to know how for my own personal use. i like the sound of my pickups, but if they were silent, that would be an improvement