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Re: Peter Green Mod
You know, its kind of silly to call it the Peter Green mod. Some vintage Les Pauls actually came wired out of phase from the factory, this is documented on the other Les Paul forum gallery pages. I think TBone Walker's ES5 has the middle pickup out of phase on purpose, this kind of tone is way older than Peter Green. Its also VERY common in the jump blues genre to play out of phase pickups especially P90s. In my opinion an out of phase P90 tone beats OOP humbuckers all to hell. Buckers just don't get the same richness when wired like that; I have all my P90 guitars and test guitars rigged with a push pull pot to reverse the phase on demand. I'm not sure but I think Jimmy Page also had that mod in his Paul way back when.
OOP pickups doesn't work in every situation, if the pickups are too close together way too many frequencies get knocked out and it can be really horribly shrill, good example is a strat with bridge and middle out of phase, something you DON'T want to do, neck and bridge works but not otherwise....
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