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Originally Posted by WBPickups
Although there is quite a few theories on how to do a correct PG Mod like a mag flip or reverse your lead and your ground wires. I will say that doing the mag flip will give you an out of phase tone.  But it won't sound as good as the correct way.  Please note, I am not a rocket scientist.
According to the Correct information that was given to me and then tested ... It wasn't just a mag flip. Although flipping the mag will give you an “Out Of Phase” tone.
Also, how the neck pickup is wound vs. the bridge pickup is the real truth and making sure they both blend correctly with each other for an "Out Of Phase" tone that is loud and musical not thin and ok with a mag flip.
Neither pickup was wound wrong just different from each other. Does installing the neck pickup reverse help with "Out Of Phase"? No. |
I don't doubt that winding the pups with the OOP tone in mind can help produce a more balanced tone.
Personally, I don't believe this is what Greeny did. Listen to how thin his tone is at times. When both tone and volume pots for each pickup are the same...the tone is supposed to be thin. To me, the thinner and tinnier the better. Now, I dont doubt that doing this with a great set of pickups like PAF's is better than OTC pickups for sure. But the magic of Green and his tone is that HE manipulated it all the time. His sense of when to be loud and when to be quiet, when to be reverb drenched, when to be dry, when to have a thick tone, when to have a thin tone....its in his hands.
I get a great Green tone just by flipping the magnet. With burstbuckers even. YMMV.