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SHADOWNIGHT5150
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Link Posted on May 16 2019 11:30 AM

Hello i got some novak hum cancel jazzmaster pups but for some reason the neck pickup has an out of phase Peter Green sound. The Bridge is fine.
Not sure what would cause this?

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Link Posted on May 16 2019 01:26 PM

Is this what you have? Looks like they could have been wired out of phase from the factory. This picture is from curtisnovak.com. If you have access to the individual coil wires, you could put it back in phase (RWRP).

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Link Posted on May 16 2019 01:52 PM

ldk wrote:

Is this what you have? Looks like they could have been wired out of phase from the factory. This picture is from curtisnovak.com. If you have access to the individual coil wires, you could put it back in phase (RWRP).

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As in reverse wire the hot and ground?

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Link Posted on May 16 2019 04:18 PM

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Link Posted on May 16 2019 05:24 PM

SHADOWNIGHT5150 wrote:

As in reverse wire the hot and ground?

Assuming the pickup you have is like the one I pictured, it's a humbucking pickup with two coils. You need to be able to get to the 4 wires that come off the two coils. If you can get to those wires, report back here, and I'll tell you how to fix it.

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Magnets reversed?

That's a good question. Actually, if all magnets have the same orientation, and the windings of the two coils are opposite directions, then the pickup will be noise cancelling and out of phase. The solution is to reverse the magnets in one of the coils. This will work as long as the winding is around a bobbin and not around the magnets themselves.

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