I have a bunch of Stratocasters, and each one of them have had their pickups replaced with either DiMarzio Virtual Vintage or Seymour Duncan (various) stacked humbuckers. I very much looooove this sound and its many variations. My music can get pretty brutal, and I rarely use a noise gate despite the cranked levels of gain.
So, I just picked up a new PRS NF3 with the DDP (deep dish) narrowfields. What's the difference ultimately, between these two styles of creating noiseless singlecoils?They're both using added rods or poles to extend the pickup winds further. I'm enjoying the NF3, and am really impressed by the overall construction. I'd like to hear some tone comparisons between the two pickup types. I'm thinking they're gonna sound nearly the same, depending on the guitar they're in. A guitar with 2 of each, for a total of 4 pickups. Would be something I'd enjoy tinkering with. 2 stacked singles, and 2 narrowfields. So the bridge would have a NF closest to it, then a stacked single as tight to it as possible. With the same configuration at the fretboard. I'd be willing to bet. I could get some bitch'n tones out of a Cutlass body, with them pickups in it. Could experiment endlessly with custom loaded pickgaurd configurations. Sterling Cutlass CT50's are killer mod platforms.
@@Treacletron It’s not for the noise, it’s for the tone in positions 2 and 4. That quacky, out of phase sound on a strat is so important to me. Seymour Duncan reverse it on other sets, like the STK series, it’s a shame they didn’t on this one…
@@brazilianjosh If you're soldering them in yourself, just wire the middle one in reverse... that's it. Positive and negative reversed. Just make sure you are good with the neck and middle combined pup sound, and if not, reverse that one as well.
@@KarstenJohansson That reverses the polarity, but not the winding. You need both for the quack. That’s what RWRP stands for in middle pickups. (Reverse Wound Reverse Polarity)
There is no magic as to whether it is clockwise from front to back since they are simple coils. It's the same thing. The direction of the electrical flow totally does matter, though. The electricity in two pickups is either spinning in the same clockwise direction, or one with the opposite counterclockwise direction.. Reversing the polarity is the same thing as flipping the whole pickup over. Where you solder them is not relevant... it's only a convenience that leads are both on the same side.@@brazilianjosh
I have a bunch of Stratocasters, and each one of them have had their pickups replaced with either DiMarzio Virtual Vintage or Seymour Duncan (various) stacked humbuckers. I very much looooove this sound and its many variations. My music can get pretty brutal, and I rarely use a noise gate despite the cranked levels of gain.
So, I just picked up a new PRS NF3 with the DDP (deep dish) narrowfields. What's the difference ultimately, between these two styles of creating noiseless singlecoils?They're both using added rods or poles to extend the pickup winds further. I'm enjoying the NF3, and am really impressed by the overall construction.
I'd like to hear some tone comparisons between the two pickup types. I'm thinking they're gonna sound nearly the same, depending on the guitar they're in.
A guitar with 2 of each, for a total of 4 pickups. Would be something I'd enjoy tinkering with. 2 stacked singles, and 2 narrowfields. So the bridge would have a NF closest to it, then a stacked single as tight to it as possible. With the same configuration at the fretboard. I'd be willing to bet. I could get some bitch'n tones out of a Cutlass body, with them pickups in it. Could experiment endlessly with custom loaded pickgaurd configurations.
Sterling Cutlass CT50's are killer mod platforms.
Such a shame they didn’t reverse the polarity of the middle. The tones are great, but I’d miss the out of phase positions 2 and 4…
They are noiseless
@@Treacletron It’s not for the noise, it’s for the tone in positions 2 and 4. That quacky, out of phase sound on a strat is so important to me. Seymour Duncan reverse it on other sets, like the STK series, it’s a shame they didn’t on this one…
@@brazilianjosh If you're soldering them in yourself, just wire the middle one in reverse... that's it. Positive and negative reversed. Just make sure you are good with the neck and middle combined pup sound, and if not, reverse that one as well.
@@KarstenJohansson That reverses the polarity, but not the winding. You need both for the quack. That’s what RWRP stands for in middle pickups. (Reverse Wound Reverse Polarity)
There is no magic as to whether it is clockwise from front to back since they are simple coils. It's the same thing. The direction of the electrical flow totally does matter, though. The electricity in two pickups is either spinning in the same clockwise direction, or one with the opposite counterclockwise direction.. Reversing the polarity is the same thing as flipping the whole pickup over. Where you solder them is not relevant... it's only a convenience that leads are both on the same side.@@brazilianjosh
What about the noise?
Bruh... they're noiseless pickups
😂😂😂@@PedalPoopers
They do NOT sound good on clean but they do sound great with some gain!
These pickups are overpriced