{"id":1240,"date":"2016-07-10T13:11:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-10T18:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/?p=1240"},"modified":"2016-07-10T13:25:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-10T18:25:38","slug":"new-page-on-changing-the-personality-of-a-guitar-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/2016\/07\/10\/new-page-on-changing-the-personality-of-a-guitar-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New Page: On Changing the Personality of a Guitar \u2013 Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/tutorials\/humbucking-pairs\/on-changing-the-personality-of-a-guitar-part-2\/\">Click Here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shows that for K number of matched single-coil pickups, the total number of possible in-phase pairs is K*(K-1)\/2, and the total number of possible contra-phase pairs is K*(K-1)\/2.\u00a0 The ultimate number of unique humbucking pairs for K is U<sub>K<\/sub> = K*(K-1) and the total number unique humbucking tones or timbres (due to series and parallel connections) is 2* U<sub>K<\/sub> = 2* K*(K-1).\u00a0 So for K = 2,3,4,5,\u2026, U<sub>K<\/sub> = 2, 6, 12, 20, \u2026, and the number of possible unique timbres is 2* U<sub>K<\/sub> = 4, 12, 24, 40, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For K matched single-coil pickups, there are 2 to the (K-1) power (2^(K-1)) different unique sets of N and S pole arrangements, of which it is likely that K sets will produce\u00a02* U<sub>K<\/sub> unique humbucking timbres.<\/p>\n<p>So for K = 4, there are 8 different unique pole arrangements.\u00a0 These arrangements can go from all N (or all S) with 12 different contra-phase outputs, to 1 N and 3 S (or 1S and 3N) with 6 in-phase and 6 contra-phase outputs, to 2N and 2S with 8 in-phase and 4 contra-phase outputs.<\/p>\n<p>If a guitar with 4 pickups in fixed positions, which can each be switched out for a pickup of the opposite pole, and the switching system can compensate to produce the K*(K-1) = 12 unique timbres (for each of the 8 pole sets) in increasing progression from warm to bright, then a 4-pickup guitar can have up to 8 different personalities.<\/p>\n<p>If the pickups can be shifted in physical position, to shade the timbres, then a whole new universe of customization opens up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click Here. Shows that for K number of matched single-coil pickups, the total number of possible in-phase pairs is K*(K-1)\/2, and the total number of possible contra-phase pairs is K*(K-1)\/2.\u00a0 The ultimate number of unique humbucking pairs for K is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/2016\/07\/10\/new-page-on-changing-the-personality-of-a-guitar-part-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,116,155],"tags":[159,211,212,213,214],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1240"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1243,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions\/1243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/android-originals.com\/tulsasound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}