The night my guitar came alive (out of phase content)

[Jack Bauer]

my les paul with a gfs mean 90 and seymour duncan '59 sounded great before this night. BUT NOW THIS LES PAUL SOUNDS AMAZING. dropped this baby off for repair one day and brought it back another in good condish. The only thing different about it was that the middle switch was wired out of phase (it sounded like peace frog). MY GOD OUT OF PHASE SOUNDS GREAT WITH GAIN AND FUZZ. My les paul sounds like it's screaming when I use a slide on the high frets and I LOVE IT. Brian may status tone comin out of my ac4tv-tonebender-lespaul combo. Why does out of phase sound so DAMN GOOD gained up? My les paul sounds like it's screaming when I use a slide on the high frets and I LOVE IT.

[Del Pickup]

I agree. I love the Peter Green out of phase tone.

I picked up an old Samick 335 copy recently from a friend and I pulled the neck pup apart and reversed the magnet and the middle position now is fantastic. It has this almost voice-like quality that you just don't get with in phase pups.

FWIW, I've read that magnetic out of phase is slightly different to electrically out of phase with a simple wiring swap. I haven't compared the two myself so can't comment as to whether that's right or not.

[Jack Bauer]

It's very voice like yeah! I think mine might just be magnetically out of phase but I would have no way of knowing.

[Chicago Slim]

My PRS Standard 22 has a Dream 90 in the neck, and a Dream 180 in the bridge. It sounds way out of phase, and I like it. Middle position has more quack than a Strat, and a great 90 mahogany sound, from the neck pickup.They may have sent me a neck Dream 180 by mistake.

[Jack Bauer]

I bet you love the **** out of that guitar though huh hahaha

[J. Hayes]

six Les Pauls, two Ibanez Artists, Two SG's, a couple of Epiphone Sheratons, etc. etc. All that said, all of my "four knob guitars" are wired with the top two knobs being the master volume and tone controls. The bottom two knobs are pull pots which activate a coil tap in the rear and a "phase switch" with the front knob. I love the way a phase switch sounds with some distortion and a little extra bottom..........JH in Va.

[tele salivas]

When I had my mini humbucker in my tele, I had accidentally wired it out of phase and I was hooked. I'd set it to drive and tone the volume down to get a real metallic clean sound that was very musical, but not what you would call warm, unless you pulled the tone knob down, then it just got nice an ddirty. Not for the faint of heart. Rnjoy!