- New Zealand-based Guitar Tech + Amp + Effects Pedal Builder & Guitarist. - Fulltime Guitar + Amp tech since 2008 - Have worked with some incredible musicians including Toto, John Fogerty, UB40, Kool & The Gang and LAB
ah yeah I think there was one stuck to the underside of my fishman but unfortunately due to a faulty glitchy pre amp it was never used but what a lovely woody tone (at the time I wondered what it was, thinking it a shim ?) when it the pre wasn't glitching. complete perfectly balanced guitar but I no longer amplify by piezoelectric undersaddle no need as I just mic if I need acoustic or even fox the whole lot. amazing what a sm 57 can pick up.
10:03 It has to sound different, because the electromagnetic processes are different in those scenarios. It all is down to winding. If you flip the pickup’s electric polarity without rewinding it in the opposite direction, you change how the electricity is running inside that wire-from center of the coil to the periphery or from the coil’s edge to its center. I did numerous tests with pups’ phase and here are my conclusions. If two pickups have opposite winding direction and opposite phase, they sound exactly the same. I.e. they have to be sorta a mirror reflexion of each other. Both pickups, being wound in opposite directions, may have Hot at the coil’s edge and Ground at coil’s center, or vice versa-Ground at the coil’s edge and Hot at coil’s center. However, if a pickup stays wound in the same direction, you get minuscule sound changes every time you flip the phase. Try it for yourself, you’ll be amused :) It’s a quite stupid, but very entertaining experiment.😅
I don't hear enough difference between them to justify the loss of time in doing it. I guess if you want to know you made a difference for yourself it's all good.
cant i do the same thing running into a spectrum analizer so iknow exact frequency i need to drop by adjusting the eq frequency to see how it improves the tone????? im pretty sure i can since ive been doing that for 35 years ???"
