NORMAL HUMBUCKER WIRING: Let’s look at the above image. As you can see, a normal humbucker is wired by connecting the Outside Leads of each coil together, and sending the Slug Inside Lead to ground, and the Screw Inside Lead to the switch (hot).

A: Mini humbuckers are tonally sort of a cross between a humbucker and a single-coil, in the same ballpark sonically as a P-90, but humbucking (meaning no noise) and with a bit more mid drive. The Gibson 490 pickups are thicker and darker sounding, with much hotter output than the mini humbuckers.

No reason you can’t, but the single coils in a mini are so small that they sound weak and effectively useless by themselves. A tapped mini might yield some interesting tones run in series with another pickup, but I’d say that’s about as far as it goes.

Five Options for Brightening Up Your Humbucker-Equipped Guitar

1. Change Your Tone Pots. The first, most practical, and cheapest option would be to change your guitar’s tone potentiometers (“pots”).
2. Alnico II vs. Alnico V.
3. Humbucker-sized Single-coil Pickups.
4. Adapter Rings.
5. Coil-Splits.

Make Single-Coils Sound Like Humbuckers For instance, it is possible to play some heavy riffage using single-coils, but there’ll usually be a lack of that much-appreciated edge a player will need for those chugging tones. If you want to make it more humbucker-ish, here’s what you’ll want to do.

Part of the reason that a humbucker sounds muddy is that it’s suffering from phase and other distortions between the two widely spaced coils. Single coils and single-coil size humbuckers sound a lot cleaner in the neck position.

The pickup sounds muddy when it’s either closer or further away from the strings. It’s an alder body with a maple neck. Thanks for any help!

Here’s 5 steps to clean up a muddy mix:

1. Get it right at the source.
2. Manage your low end in the stereo field.
3. Don’t be afraid to filter.
4. Be extra-careful EQing your low mids.
5. Keep good headroom.

If you connect a . 047 capacitor in series (directly in-line) with the hot output wire from your neck pickup, it will filter out the excess low-end, and clean up the muddy tone. Most of the time, this solution is perfect. And, it is an easy mod that most people can do themselves.

There are several things you can do to help brighten up your pickups if you are getting a muddy tone. First, try adjusting the height of the pickups by adjusting the screws. If that doesn’t work, try changing your Potentiometer value, if using 250K try 500K. Lastly if that still doesn’t work, try connecting a .

To make the bridge pick up a little warmer, lower the adjustable poles further into the coil, and raise the entire pickup closer to the strings so that the coil also from the bridge is relatively closer to the strings than it was previously, and therefore relatively louder in the dual-coil blend.

The most common reasons for a muddy guitar sound are having your guitar’s tone knob is turned down too far, using old guitar strings, or your amp’s EQ knobs are set wrong.

At any rate, sound quality is one of the last things people dislike about cheap guitars. The most common complaints are tuning stability, neck warp, rust, jagged fret ends, scratchy pots, jiggly input jacks, finicky switches… basically every parts is there but doesn’t work as expected.

The easiest way to remove mud from your electric guitar recordings is with the use of subtractive EQ. Cutting around 80-100 Hz using a high-pass filter with a gradual slope will remove low-end rumble and make the part sound tighter in the mix.

The actual reason the G string falls out of tune most often and faster is because it’s the string with the least amount of tension on it. However, if you tune it and it still sounds out of tune immediately, then that’s a problem with your intonation.

– Use a slightly heavier gauge string. – Make sure the string is wound 2-3 times around the peg. – Lube the nut with nut sauce or really soft art pencil. – When you put the string on make sure you stretch it and retune it until it stays in tune.

YES, thicker strings stay in tune longer. They also give better sustain and a thicker & fatter tone.

When you experience all or most of the strings buzzing when played open, then it is likely the neck is back bowed (there’s not enough relief). The strings are buzzing against the first fret. The fix is simple: increase the amount of relief in the neck by loosening the truss rod.

But you fret a note at the lower frets on the G string – 1st, 2nd 3rd frets are worst and they are sharp. This is generally caused by the tension of the string altering as you fret it. And G, being the thickest monofilament or non wound string (on an Electric guitar) is worst affected.