Kingofpain678
Returned from the dead
If you have a guitar with two single coil pickups, could they be wired to act as a humbucker?
mshilarious
Banned
Humbucking coils have to be reverse wound and reverse magnetic polarity, and they should be close together. If they are farther apart, then they kinda work without reverse magnetic polarity, but that gets you the "out-of-phase" sound.
Alternatively, you could mount one of the them upside down . . .
Kingofpain678
Returned from the dead
Meh, That sounds like more trouble than what it's worth. I was eventually gonna get to my real question which was (if it were possible for two singles to make a humbucker) Could a split coil and a single coil (as in a bass(as in my bass)) could be wired as a humbucker.
I suppose I'll just leave it for now though. Maybe one day I'll rout it out for humfuckers
slowmotion
New member
Some of the single coil sized humbuckers actually go alright IMO...
You could always wire the 2 single coils in series and see if you like it... not going to buck any hum, as it were, but might float your boat.
You could always wire the 2 single coils in series and see if you like it... not going to buck any hum, as it were, but might float your boat.
G
ggunn
Crystal Flavolian
Absolutely, but one of them needs to be a RWRP (reverse wound reverse polarity) pickup. Many Strats have a RWRP middle pickup so that switch positions 2 and 4 buck hum. It works pretty well, actually; my Strat is set up that way.