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The problem is that you're trying to make pickup B sound like pickup A. which is going to sound more like pickup A.... pickup A or pickup B? Which is going to taste more like ham........ ham, or spam? Of course it is ham. If you're trying to imitate something, the real thing will always seem more real than the imitations. Not that hard to wrap your head around... so, why does it seem so weird that none of the noiseless strat pickups seem to sound like strat pickups? Because they AREN'T strat pickups! This is why I think pickup makers (and this is strictly my own opinion) spend their time better trying to make noiseless pickups that have their own, useable sound instead of trying to sound exactly like a single coil. The people I know that play stacked pickups or something similar don't do so because they prefer the sound over a regular single coil, they do it out of necessity.
I have to side with David on this. If you want to play in noisy, cigarette smoke filled rooms all the time with noisy amps, then 60 Hz isn't an issue, but not everyone is a raunchy old blues man. Hat sales alone show that isn't the case. Try playing high gain, through an ultra clean amp, a style of music that requires lots of breaks, or direct into a system. Noise reduction isn't a gimmick.
Back to topic, where exactly does the high end cancellation come from with humbucking systems? I've always heard that is a matter of harmonics wherein the wavelength is smaller than the distance between the poles, but if that was the case, then stacked humbuckers and split coils would be exempt, and small humbuckers (lil '59, barden style blade pickups) would show minimal change. I seem to remember reading on here somewhere that this was erroneous thinking and I was waiting for the topic to come up again, but I could be wrong.
I have to side with David on this. If you want to play in noisy, cigarette smoke filled rooms all the time with noisy amps, then 60 Hz isn't an issue, but not everyone is a raunchy old blues man. Hat sales alone show that isn't the case. Try playing high gain, through an ultra clean amp, a style of music that requires lots of breaks, or direct into a system. Noise reduction isn't a gimmick.
Back to topic, where exactly does the high end cancellation come from with humbucking systems? I've always heard that is a matter of harmonics wherein the wavelength is smaller than the distance between the poles, but if that was the case, then stacked humbuckers and split coils would be exempt, and small humbuckers (lil '59, barden style blade pickups) would show minimal change. I seem to remember reading on here somewhere that this was erroneous thinking and I was waiting for the topic to come up again, but I could be wrong.
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