Re: A Bass In Bali -- Quiet Electronics

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I also noted that the split P pickup
is wired with both halves in the same polarity. I should get an
improvement if I reverse one, right?
I think this is true, The split P pickup should be wired with the
halves
reversed to each other....

If the pickups are designed to be used in a humbucking arrangement,
one
should be reverse wound with respect to the other (electrically in-
phase, magnetically out-of-phase). In the case of the split P-Bass
pickup, since they are each picking up different strings, I suppose
that
one would get a humbucking arrangement by wiring them out-of-phase even
of they were both wound in the same direction.

PBass pickups are humbucking. They are reverse-wound,
reverse-magnet-polarity with respect to each other.


I know real P-Basses are humbucking, but what about P-Bass copies? I
would
assume that many of them would not be reverse wound.

But unlike normal humbucking pickups, each of the split-coils on a P-Bass
senses different strings, so the phase shouldn't matter. As a practical
matter, try flipping the wires on one of the sub-coils. You should find
much less noise with one arrangement than with the other, with only minimal
changes in signal level, tone, etc.


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