Nay
March 28th, 2009, 02:39 PM
Hey,
I'm new the forum, but I've been reading some stuff on the forum lately about phase wiring.
Recently I changed the pickups in what is essentially a telecaster. I bought it off my brother who was told it was a broadcaster reissue. I have not found a serial number and I have not found much info on broadcaster reissues in general which leads me to believe it is fake. Nonetheless I still like the guitar a lot...
Anyways this is the first time I really "customized" a guitar. So, I put the pickups in and I found some locking tuners for cheap. When I was putting the locking tuners in I accidentally broke the pickup selector switch. I went to buy a new one and I decided it would be cool to put a gibson switch in rather than a fender switch. Once I installed this i noticed that when I used the bridge and neck pickup together they sounded out of phase.
Now I want to buy a push pull pot so I can select in phase and out of phase wiring. This may be a dumb question, but will this still work with this switch? I thought normally all pickups were wired in phase and then you could get a switch to have them out of phase. In this case it sounds as though the neck and bridge pickup alone are in phase but out of phase together. I don't know many details of in phase and out of phase in general, so please enlighten me.
Lastly if I decided to go with a push pull pot opposed to a switch what resistance should I get? I never really understood what difference the resistance of the pot made.
Thanks
I'm new the forum, but I've been reading some stuff on the forum lately about phase wiring.
Recently I changed the pickups in what is essentially a telecaster. I bought it off my brother who was told it was a broadcaster reissue. I have not found a serial number and I have not found much info on broadcaster reissues in general which leads me to believe it is fake. Nonetheless I still like the guitar a lot...
Anyways this is the first time I really "customized" a guitar. So, I put the pickups in and I found some locking tuners for cheap. When I was putting the locking tuners in I accidentally broke the pickup selector switch. I went to buy a new one and I decided it would be cool to put a gibson switch in rather than a fender switch. Once I installed this i noticed that when I used the bridge and neck pickup together they sounded out of phase.
Now I want to buy a push pull pot so I can select in phase and out of phase wiring. This may be a dumb question, but will this still work with this switch? I thought normally all pickups were wired in phase and then you could get a switch to have them out of phase. In this case it sounds as though the neck and bridge pickup alone are in phase but out of phase together. I don't know many details of in phase and out of phase in general, so please enlighten me.
Lastly if I decided to go with a push pull pot opposed to a switch what resistance should I get? I never really understood what difference the resistance of the pot made.
Thanks