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When the combination of two coils or bobbins are electrically or magnetically out of phase. Two bobbins can be wound in the same direction but are hooked up opposite: This is an example having two bobbins with the same polarity. Coil (1) the beginning is grounded and the finish is positive. Coil (2) the beginning…

Typically this happens when two single coil Fender style pickups are combined for example: Each pickup is wound in an opposite direction. One bobbin is wound clockwise and the other is wound counter-clockwise. Both bobbins are wound with the same magnetic polarity. Either both “South” or both “North”. When the two pickups are combined in…

Basically when two pickups are wound in the same direction, both have the same magnetic polarity towards the strings, the beginning of each coil is grounded and the finish of each coil are positive. The two pickups are considered “in” phase with each other. You need at least two pickups in an instrument to determine…

When having two single coils and each are wound in an opposite direction and both have an opposite magnetic polarity towards the strings. When the pickups are combined in parallel when using a proper switch the combination of the two pickups become humbucking. In a traditional humbucking pickup the two coils are wound in the…

The winding direction, magnet polarity and hookup can be different from guitar to guitar even with the same brand or model. Most companies that make humbuckers usually wind the coils in the same direction, use the same magnetic polarity and are hooked up the same. Often when you want to replace a pickup in your…

That is a typical problem when using a mono-cord with a stereo system. Basically to have it operate in-phase when using two pickups you need to flip over one of the bar magnet from one of the humbuckers 180∞ (degrees). By reversing the magnetic field will reverse the magnetic phasing and make it in phase…

If you have a humbucker that’s epoxied it is more difficult to reverse the phasing. If you have single conductor shielded wire, you can sometimes do some fancy wiring by reversing the ground and hot leads. Using special magnetizers with custom probes or pole pieces enable you to remagnetize the magnet within the epoxied pickup…

You can fix the phase of pickups in two ways: First, you can magnetically change the polarity on one of the two pickups by physically reversing the magnet 180 degrees or remagnetizing the magnet with opposite polarity either from North to South or South to North. You will usually change the magnetic calibration which can…

Many times the hookup wires on a single coil pickup can be reversed to make a pickup in-phase or out of phase when used in combination with another pickup. Another problem when reversing the hookup wires especially on a Stratocaster pickup, is the poles become noisy if touched and can short out if accidentally touched…

By reversing the hookup wires from ground to hot and hot to ground the pickups will be electrically in or out of phase when used in combination with two or more pickups. By reversing the magnetic field 180 degrees, the pickup will either be magnetically in phase or out of phase when used in combination…