Danelectro pickup hum cancelling query

[shaker]

Hi

I have a Dano 12 string (Chinese reissue about 10 years old, give or take)

Sounds great, plays great, looks great too.

The middle (both pickups on) position puts the pickups on in series, but not hum cancelling.

The pickups each have 2 wires and a separate earth.

If I physically turned one pickup round (180degrees on the horizontal plane) and then switched the wiring, would it be hum cancelling in the same way a RWRP pickup would.

Many thanks

Shaker

[newey]

Aug 1, 2022 9:48:16 GMT -5 shaker said:

If I physically turned one pickup round (180degrees on the horizontal plane) and then switched the wiring, would it be hum cancelling in the same way a RWRP pickup would.

No. You'd need to flip the magnet(s) around vertically, North for South, and also wire them opposite way around. If you just wired them the opposite way, they would hum-cancel but they'd be out-of-phase.

I am not familiar with these pickups enough to know if the magnets can be flipped or not. If they are of the "lipstick tube" type like the classic Dano pickups, you'd certainly have to take it apart to see, and you might well destroy things in the process, particularly if there's wax potting, etc.

I didn't do so, but you might search for a YouTube video or other instruction out on the web, someone has probably done this if it's at all possible.

If modifying the pickups is too much of a challenge, a "noise gate" pedal of some sort might quiet things down.

[shaker]

Many thanks, Newey.

North-South makes complete sense now.

I'll leave them as they are...they do sound very 'right' on the Dano 12 string.

One again, many thanks

Shaker