I have a tele with fender wide range humbuckers. You probably know of telenator's mod where he removes the bar magnet and puts alnico rods in place of the steel screw polepieces. Well, i did that mod and it's certainly an improvement but i'm still not real happy with how humbucker like they sound. Even my old MIM thinline with the older WRHB's had a much more "HB meets single coil" tone once i did the mod to them. This one sounds much too middy. I have tried one coil but it;s too weak. Also tried 3 rods per coil, one coil with mags only under the plain strings one coil under the wounds.
I only went into detail so you'd know all the things I tried and wouldn't need to keep posting to say tried that. But i have one more idea but i have questions as to how to do it. I want to try running the coils in parallel so it would be like 2 single coils in parallel in the same shell. I think the answer is obvious but i wanna ask anyways in case i'm missing something. If i do this i should change the alnico poles so both coils are the same orientation, right? In other words, both north or both south. If i did them one coil north and one south wouldn't that create an out of phase sorta sound, or at least weaker then if both coil's magnets were oriented the same?
I only went into detail so you'd know all the things I tried and wouldn't need to keep posting to say tried that. But i have one more idea but i have questions as to how to do it. I want to try running the coils in parallel so it would be like 2 single coils in parallel in the same shell. I think the answer is obvious but i wanna ask anyways in case i'm missing something. If i do this i should change the alnico poles so both coils are the same orientation, right? In other words, both north or both south. If i did them one coil north and one south wouldn't that create an out of phase sorta sound, or at least weaker then if both coil's magnets were oriented the same?