How to Avoid 'Out of Phase' with Single Coil Pickups - Tone Geek Series #1 

Man... I understand zero about this stuff, and with all this walk through mega hyper detailed info, I feel I can do it all myself... I would like and subscribe tons of times, thank you very very much

In all the years I've been around guitars that's the clearest best description I've ever seen ta

Very clear, very concise. Thank you for taking the time to make this video.

I was getting nervous, waiting for you to poke the winding with the pen. :-) I've often had trouble with flipping black/white leads due to shorts or coupling to the alnico rods (which hum when touched). But of course, it would be nice to have black on the outside if everything is insulated well (helps with shielding). Surprising that Duncan is out of phase with Fender/Fralin/Lollar. So they can't be simply combined with any of them.

Excellent and simple explanation! Thanks😊 Vincenzo , Rome (Italy)

Thanks for sharing Paul, this was really interesting and I've actually learned something today 😀. All the best, Thor

Great video , very educational and well explained.. Qu...wIth single coils, say a Telecaster three way in the middle position, don't I need RWRP for noise cancelling ? I see pickup manufacturers doing this ? Tks

Thank you so very much for this information. All of us out here in Guitarland are eternally grateful. I have a question about the effect of sound, or tone, when you flip the lead wires from hot to ground on a single coil. Does the direction of the wind, or rather, how the current flows in that wind, effect the resulting tone of the guitar? I would think not, but that's just my presupposition. Any thoughts on that?

Great explanation, thank you, very interesting!!

Very clear and useful, thanks!

Thank you very very much. I learned a lot from your video and am now after YEARS (!) enabled to understand the game with not fitting hight end single coils from different companies. I think the companies should minimum giving information from which site they wire and if they use south or north magnets. The case, that they do not so is a kind of playing with the customers and the money, they invest! 👎 But thank you very much for your video 👍👍👍🎶🎸

Hi great vid! This clarifies things for me. Do you have a similar vid for humbuckers?

Surely the north pointing end of the compass needle is actually charged South - that's why it points to the North pole. Therefore the top of your pickup at 2'58" in the video is acyually attracting south and is therefore north up...?!?

Really helpful video! I've got two questions: 1.) You're mentioning this in the video, but: Say I have two PUs out of phase and the only thing I technically would have to change to make them in phase is the winding direction, is it a luthier's no-no to just flip hot and ground on the wiring at the pot/switch? I've done this before and I kinda felt bad ... 2.) Is it correct that you can also find out the winding direction by measuring the DC resistance of a PU and then if you touch the magnetic pole pieces with a piece of metal the resistance goes either up or down depending on the direction? If this is actually true, it means you could find out the winding direction without actually having to look at the pickups while they're buried underneath the pickguard.

Help…. I thought the magnets had to to be south - North - south on a Strat ? I’m confused 😕👍

What would cause hum noise when hum-cancel is built-in to the electroncs setup? My Strat features hum cancel on positions 2 and 4. But it has loud line hum on #4, neck and middle, that sounds like an open patch chord!

Paul you've made a mistake A rw/rp pair of coils wired in parallel IS a humbucker.

cool man!

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Oh my god. You could just say: switch the black an white string.