![]() ![]() Without getting too technical, that is because the pickups are in two different places on the guitar body, so they "see" different parts of the vibrating string, and the lower in frequency the sound the more likely that the pickups are seeing the "same thing", so when their phases are reversed, they will cancel. The same thing happens with guitar pickups - ever wire two pickups out of phase by accident, or on purpose if you are Peter Green? What you'll find is that you get less output overall, and most of the bass has been sucked out. If you took one wave that was positive, and added it to the negative "flipped-over" version of itself, they would basically cancel out. You could imagine "flipping it over" so that it is now negative when it used to be positive. If you imagine a sin wave to simplify, sometimes that wave is positive, and sometimes it is negative. RWRP, or "reversed-wiring reversed-phase", is a term usually used to describe single-coil pickup sets or individual single-coil guitar pickups.įirst, what do we mean when we describe a guitar pickup's phase? Essentially what we are discussing here is the relationship between the guitar string's movement and the electronic output from the pickup. ![]()
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