How to Test Pickup Phase - The Easy Way

This is my first in a series of videos on Pickup Phase and shows How to Test Pickup Phase.
This is the easy way to do it.
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0:00 Intro
0:32 What You Need
1:08 How To Do It
3:10 Thoughts

[@Shaun.Stephens]

You do, you do need to make more videos! Thanks for this Glyn.

[@robinleebraun7739]

Just installed a second humbucker in my homemade guitar and discovered that the second pickup was out of phase with the first because the common channel was very thin and much lower volume. But because of KZbin, I simply reversed the wiring of one of the pickups and it worked perfectly.

[@MrGlynsPickups]

Really pleased to have been some help.

[@Wolferal]

Thanks for the lesson

[@Jimmyroots]

You've made my day, I did an upgrade on my affinity strat, I swapped the bridge single for a fleor humbucker with 15.34 ohms and the option of split coil, I only found an issue on the second position , it sounds like with less bass or presence and I believe it could be because the humbucker is out of phase so I think I will have to swap the hot wire and the green wire

[@MrGlynsPickups]

If you’ve got one of those meters you can plug a lead in and tap the pickups. It sort of works with a digital meter too but much harder to tell. If you can’t do it that way then just swap the humbucker wires and have a listen.

[@Jimmyroots]

@@MrGlynsPickups got it, I have digital multimeter so I'm going to try and see if it works, thanks 🙏🏾!!

[@todoguitar]

Question: can pickups change their polarity through the time without doing anything? I believe that's what happened to my DiMarzio PAF Pro pickups on my 20 years old Ibanez

[@MrGlynsPickups]

Hi, no that can't happen. Over time it is possible for magnets to reduce their charge if exposed to a strong magnetic field but not change polarity.

[@curtisnewton895]

that s weird... humbuckers should have coils and magnets in opposite directions...the phase should nt be the same...otherwise there wont be noise cancelation

[@MrGlynsPickups]

Yes, you're right. Both the coils and the magnet are in opposite directions. The coils are wired out of phase with each other to cancel hum. So they're electrically out of phase. One coil is magnetically North and the other South so they're also magnetically out of phase too. So they're out of phase twice, therefore back in phase. So the finished pickup is in phase but remaining electrically out of phase so the hum is cancelled. Clever stuff eh. Here's another explanation: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j4C7ZYqon9J-mtE