Neck pickup still to bass-heavy

[David Schwab]

Right, but wouldn't that be a smaller valued capacitor?

Yes.

He posted before:

I might in the meantime offset the magnet to "Air" it and add a .022 or .01 uF in series.

So I'm not sure what he's going for.

[Guitarist]

I've got the guitar at home and have been dialing in other things. The cap is just to shelve out the lowest frequencies a bit like permanently turning the bass down a bit. The 'air" is to skew the magnet to one side which is supposed to favour that coil making it asymmetrical. Similar to a coil mismatch by removing a spacer. I may've lifted the idea from the SD forum (I'm not a member) or elsewhere. It's a Dimarzoi trick right but rather less sophisticated.

[David Schwab]

Is this a Fender Wide Range humbucker? Try removing the hidden pole pieces. That should give you more of a single coil tone because both coils will not pick up the same strings. Works better than trying to weaken a coil by mismatching them, because they are offset.

Or they wiring it in parallel. That should do it without using caps.

Bartolini was making mismatched coil humbuckers back in the 70s. I have one that is 1000 ohms different between the two coils; same gauge wire, fewer turns on one coil. Dimarzio uses two different wire gauges, but essentially the same number of turns.

[Guitarist]

Sorry, its not a Wide Range but rather normal looking. Thank you.

[David Schwab]

Sorry, its not a Wide Range but rather normal looking. Thank you.

Wire it in parallel. It will have less low and and more top end.

Does it have a cover? You can take the cover off and it will be much brighter too.