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In this short video – Pickup Phase Explained – I look at what phase is, what it isn’t and why you need to know.

I use a Strat to demonstrate the ‘out of phase’ sound and how it would sound if it really was out of phase.

Positions 2 and 4 on Strat switches are often referred to as ‘out of phase’ when they really aren’t. Those positions are the sound of 2 pickups in parallel (a humbucker is in series). Out of phase is quite different as you’ll hear in this video.

There is another video in this series explaining how to test phase – the easy way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lhnCf4JIyw&t=3s

How to test pickup phase — Test Pickup Phase

How Do Humbuckers Work? — Test Pickup Phase

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As part of my series on How Pickups Work here is How To Test Pickup Phase – The Easy Way.

There is, of course, a hard way and that’s putting pickups into a guitar and having a listen later. That’s fine if you get it right but a pain if you have to re-wire the pickup again later.

I realised after making this video that I needed to make another on what pickup phase actually is. So here’s a link to that one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eX2VLEDHLY&t=153s

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