amf17
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Post by amf17 on Aug 19, 2007 19:19:13 GMT -5
I know the theory behind humbuckers but i have a question
I have two humbuckers in my Les Paul and when I am near my amp and point the body of the guitar in different directions I can hear the amp humming in and out.
So is this normal and are my humbuckers working properly?? or is a humbucker supposed to cancel all hum coming form the amp.
I wanted to split each of them with push/pull's but i am worried that it will hum like crazy.
Any thoughts or suggestions.
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Post by mr_sooty on Aug 19, 2007 23:01:12 GMT -5
Some Humbuckers hum. I have a Fender US Deluxe Strat and the DH1 humbuckers quite noisy. That, combined with the fact that the single coils are dead silent SCN's, I have the rather odd scenario of having no hum in my single coils and hum in my humbucker.
But yeah, split humbuckers will definitely hum, because they're basically single-coils. And I guess noisier humbuckers will hum more when split that not so noisey humbuckers, but I could be wrong.
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Post by sumgai on Aug 19, 2007 23:57:11 GMT -5
mr. sooty, Not odd at all - your SCn's are not single coil, they're stacked humbuckers. HTH sumgai
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Post by JohnH on Aug 20, 2007 6:24:52 GMT -5
Theres some hum picked up by general wiring, in addition to the coils. So hum-bucking only gets rid of most, not all the hum.
Also, what may be relevant to your description, the humbucking relies on each coil generating equal and opposite hum which cancels out. When you are near a source of hum, such as the amp. the coils, being in slightly different positions, will pick up slightly different amoiunts of hum and hence not quite cancel.
John
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