IBANEZ H-H polarity

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For those who may have cast an inquisitive glance at position 2 (two split humbuckers) of the following Ibanez Humbucker-Humbucker switching scheme, I can report that it is indeed good.

The Ibanez I am working on has the popular Air Norton neck and Tone Zone bridge. No air, and no tone either. The Tone Zone is standard, but the Air Norton is reverse magnetic polarity, so hum-cancelling is indeed present.

Take note if you plan to swop pickups in one of these.

guidothepimmp

Im surpised to hear that. Those are some of Dimarzio's top buckers.

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guidothepimmp
Apologies for any confusion, I did not mean to imply all Air Nortons are like this. You frequently read of "so-and-so turned that -and-that pickup around" and so on. Could be, but could be that the pickup was specially built to be like that. In this case, Ibanez required a pickup with reverse magnetic polarity to make this switching work, with a leadout placed to work in this guitar's cutout. So, now this specific "Ibanez" DiMarzio is not a straight swop into the bridge. I can reverse the magnet, but , the leadout will be on the wrong side if I install it screws towards bridge, as is normal. Not all guitars have space for that problem.
I shall post some more information on this.

ScottyDogg

Same setup came standard in my RG721MSM - when I swapped out pickups to a Seymour Duncan JB in the bridge and Jazz in the neck, I spent ages figuring out how to wire them to maintain the aforementioned configuration.

Far more exciting than the standard H-H setup. This vid is an Andertons Review (well, Back when some Andertons vids were still uploaded on Chappers’ channel) of my own guitar (with stock pickups) showing this config if anyone wants to hear it: