is this kind of buzzing normal?

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guitar is ibanez rg2550z. stock humbucker in neck, tone zone in bridge.

at volume 10 with plenty of gain, the neck humbucker is almost silent. at vol 10 the TZ buzzes about half as loud as the single coil does at 10. is this just the humbucker itself or did i not wire something correctly? i just kinda noticed it now. the tone zone sounds amazing though, not weak or tinny or anything.

also, in positions 2 and 4, moving the pup selector around makes some crackling. i can't recall if this was happening before. it probably was.

i'm probably over reacting, but i want to check before i go and open the guitar up again.

[toneboy]

Dimarzio uses Dual Resonance technology in a lot of their pickups, including the Tone Zone. You can tell which pickups use this tech by looking for a reference to Patent #4501185 in the specs listed on their website.

What this means is the (2) coils of the humbucker are wound differently to get tones that would normally not be achievable with a standard symmetrical humbucker. In other words, a Tone Zone (among others) wouldn't sound like a Tone Zone without it. The catch is pickups like this don't buck the hum 100%. In order for that to happen the coils have to be mirror images of each - same number of winds, same gauge of wire with the only difference between them being the direction of the wraps (reverse wound) and the polarity of the magnet (reverse polarity).

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Originally Posted by toneboy

Dimarzio uses Dual Resonance technology in a lot of their pickups, including the Tone Zone. You can tell which pickups use this tech by looking for a reference to Patent #4501185 in the specs listed on their website.

What this means is the (2) coils of the humbucker are would differently to get tones that would normally not be achievable with a standard symmetrical humbucker. In other words, a Tone Zone (among others) wouldn't sound like a Tone Zone without it. The catch is pickups like this don't buck the hum 100%. In order for that to happen the coils have to be mirror images of each - same number of winds, same gauge of wire with the only difference between them being the direction of the wraps (reverse wound) and the polarity of the magnet (reverse polarity).

ahh i see. well that's cool then.