Thread 107160482

I may have uncovered a conspiracy in a multi billion dollar global industry and empirically proved psychic powers exist through ragebait.

When WFH became the norm once Covid hit, I decided to use some of that extra time to begin learning about guitars and their electronics. For months, I would spend hours every day looking up how, why, and what made them work. I decided I would give pickup making a try. I spent some time devising a plan for a professional level humbucker and got all of the components to wind, pot, and assemble it. It took a couple tries, but I did it and it sounded better than anything I had heard before. It used a unique design which was a combination of many different styles of pickups.

I'm very cautious though, so I didn't let this one success define my entire direction. I dissected my own work. Cross verified that I had done everything correctly and how each part provided a part of the picture. That's when it happened... I made sure I used the compass correctly. The normal convention for humbuckers says the South polarity is the typical screw coil. So I used a Gauss meter. It read North... I took it to a music store. Every humbucker read its screw coil as North instead of South.

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So, I started experimenting with the phase of existing humbuckers. It seemed that they all sounded much more similar when the physical orientation of the humbucker was flipped, and the electrical phase reversed as well. Technically reversing the phase alone can be correct, but the overall phase relationship makes the pickup sound like EMGs. The issue with the double (sometimes triple by flipping each coils phase) was if there is no middle pickup, it can be a bit squealy under high gain. Besides that, the overall tonal response, clarity, definition, every single sonic aspect is enhanced in this method. By changing the ground from actual North to South as intended, the humbucker is simply better. For existing pickups, they sounded similar though. This indicated that the only reason why north would be ground, is that by generating the signal in opposition to the field lines it would make the winding an interference pattern. Pickups from the same manufacturer using the same materials resulting in the same DCR ratings with the same wire gauge and coating with the same magnetic orientation sounding different... it's the only possible way. For it to go away when the magnetic orientation is changed would indicate its similar to signal propagation on motherboards. In /k/ terms, if you dont count the ounces you'll feel the pounds type of deal.

One of the biggest issues for pickups is EMF interference. Scatterwound coils are proven to be more resistant to this interference, yet generally only the boutiques utilize this. They're potentially intentionally misleading buyers to purchase a product that is usually capable of being configured better than it is being sold to them...

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Knowing that the entertainment/music industry was generally regarded as satanic, I was likewise cautious. Networked just enough. Made just enough. Took things slow and deliberately. Maybe too slow for them. There were a couple individuals that showed me them playing pickups that I hadn't made in time yet. In person. Before I made them. One dude still hasn't gotten the set he showed himself playing directly in front of me. I always leave little breadcrumbs, and I put a visual cue that only I would question when I saw them. Others would ask me about certain items that I didn't have yet but were related to my work. Others admitted to practicing witchcraft, and thought they could read my future. I have unfortunately died a few times in life, so likewise have had to play 5D chess for a long time. They asked me about events in the future about certain things that didn't happen yet, but would be partial truths. About private messages I had sent on my phone regarding them, but again, before I had actually ever sent them. One guy even knew something I said on a microphone on a video game we would meet on in the future, except I disabled the microphone in hardware settings.