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You are electrically out of phase, not magnetically, but you can reverse the magnets in the neck and bridge pickups to correct this. The Stratocaster pickup is wound (top left/top going) and the humbucker and P-90 coils are wound (top left/top coming). The P-90 and Humbucker are out of phase with the Stratocaster. You could…

There are several things that can be done if you can’t reverse the wires on the encased pickup (epoxied). If the other pickup being used is a humbucker check to see if it’s sealed or not. If it’s not sealed see if the magnet can be removed and flipped over 180 degrees. You may need…

It sounds like the white or hot wire is connected to the beginning of the coil and the black wire is hooked to the finish of the coil. This can make your pickup electrically out of phase instead of magnetically out of phase. By carefully reversing the two wires at the pickup will make the…

When adding an extra pickup in your guitar two things can happen. The coils can be electrically out of phase or magnetically out of phase. In either case there are a few things you can do to remedy the problem. You can carefully remove the bar magnet in your existing Melody Maker pickup and flip…

Is determined by the winding direction of a pickup either Top Coming or Top Going and how one or more coils are hooked up electrically. By reversing the beginning and finish wires in a coil will reverse the electrical phasing. By reversing the magnetic polarity of a magnet is called magnetic phasing. If two pickups…

All the old Telecaster lead and rhythm pickups I’ve seen have been wound top left, top coming in other words the coil was wound counter-clockwise around the bobbin. When measuring the magnet polarity at the top of the lead and rhythm pickup, I have seen them both South or North. Eventually they both became standard…

Pickups are usually out of phase with each other because they are electrically (winding direction) or magnetically (magnetic polarity) opposite each other or out of phase when used with each other. Here are four examples of phasing. If two coils are wound in the same direction and the same polarity-In Phase If two coils are…

If the bridge and middle pickups sound fine in the # 2 position, it sounds like the neck pickup is wound in the opposite direction compared to the bridge and middle pickup. Normal vintage style Stratocaster pickups are wound top left (TL) and wound top going (TG). It seems that the neck pickup may be…

If you reverse the wires on the middle Strat pickup, the poles would become hot. If the grounded guitar strings would hit the poles, the signal could cut out and also the poles would buzz if you touch them. If you remagnetize the Strat pickup to be magnetically in phase you can change the magnetic…

Two bobbins that have opposite magnetic polarities and both coils are wound in the same direction. Both beginnings of each coil are connected to ground and the finish of both coils are positive. Two bobbins that have the same magnetic polarity and both coils are wound in an opposite direction. Both beginnings of each coil…