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Re: Hotter wind on screw coil

4/4/2006 5:33 PM
Zhangliqun	Re: Hotter wind on screw coil "A question to those that wind "mismatched" coils; how much of the humbucking effect is lost, and how far do you mismatch the coils?" You more or less answered your own question. How much humbucking effect is lost depends entirely on how wide of a mismatch you wind. But there's another factor I've been discovering with some of my customers -- high gain can magnify the small amount of hum you get with "unbuckers" (UB's) way out of proportion to what it is played clean. I have customers who say my UB's are dead silent when played clean to moderate break-up. When they crank the gain up to heavy crunch to flat-out saturated, they do complain of some hum -- though they say it's still nowhere near as bad as a true single coil. I tell folks who order my UB's to expect a touch of hum when the hit the channel switch or stompbox. It's the price you pay for this particular tone -- at least 'til I can figure out a way to make a matched humbucker sound like that...

4/4/2006 5:33 PM

Zhangliqun

Re: Hotter wind on screw coil

"A question to those that wind "mismatched" coils; how much of the humbucking effect is lost, and how far do you mismatch the coils?"

You more or less answered your own question. How much humbucking effect is lost depends entirely on how wide of a mismatch you wind.

But there's another factor I've been discovering with some of my customers -- high gain can magnify the small amount of hum you get with "unbuckers" (UB's) way out of proportion to what it is played clean.

I have customers who say my UB's are dead silent when played clean to moderate break-up. When they crank the gain up to heavy crunch to flat-out saturated, they do complain of some hum -- though they say it's still nowhere near as bad as a true single coil.

I tell folks who order my UB's to expect a touch of hum when the hit the channel switch or stompbox. It's the price you pay for this particular tone -- at least 'til I can figure out a way to make a matched humbucker sound like that...

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