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Slumberjack
New member
I hear this term alot, and there is even a "phase" button on my guitar, but I have no idea what it means.... help?
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moresound
Loud Sun Studios
Possibly puts your pickups out of phase.
On a mixer it usually turns your signal 180 degrees out of phase to the original signal.
On a mixer it usually turns your signal 180 degrees out of phase to the original signal.
Massive Master
www.massivemastering.com
Inversion - Positive = negative, negative = positive.
On it's own it's generally not a big thing. Put two things that are out of phase together and you can have anything from freaky "tin can" sounds to complete cancellation.
You'll probably find a lot here: http://tinyurl.com/ye759hy
On it's own it's generally not a big thing. Put two things that are out of phase together and you can have anything from freaky "tin can" sounds to complete cancellation.
You'll probably find a lot here: http://tinyurl.com/ye759hy
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AbuseTheMuses
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Without going into technical details (because I don't have a clue), I had a phase switch put into my dual humbucker guitar. When I switch it, the sound becomes more shrill, jangley, 'brilliant' sounding, but thinner. It's nice for cutting through a heavy mix, but tinny and too weak-but-harsh and jagged sounding on its own. Supposedly it puts the two pickups out of phase with each other, which in the case of my guitar, results in that kind of sound. My advice is to just listen to the difference in the sound. That's what it does. Let the electricians and mathemeticians worry about how it does it or why, I just worry about what it is good to use it for.
Sirnothingness
Banned
It's a button that makes your guitar sound like crap. Don't use it and you'll be happy.
Lt. Bob
Spread the Daf!
when two audio things are out of phase you get cancellations in the frequency response.
This happens whether it's two speakers or two pick ups or two electronic anythings.
In the audio realm this usually translates into being a thinner sound because the greatest cancellations occur in the bass frequencies.
So on a git with two humbuckers, putting them out of phase will make the sound output a little lower and cancel a lot of the lower and low-mid freqs.
You can use it to get something that more approaches a single coil pickup sound although it still won't be a strat sound. But much less of a humbucker thickness.
This happens whether it's two speakers or two pick ups or two electronic anythings.
In the audio realm this usually translates into being a thinner sound because the greatest cancellations occur in the bass frequencies.
So on a git with two humbuckers, putting them out of phase will make the sound output a little lower and cancel a lot of the lower and low-mid freqs.
You can use it to get something that more approaches a single coil pickup sound although it still won't be a strat sound. But much less of a humbucker thickness.