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  • Dial-a-tap with Pearly Gates?

    Hey folks, I was wondering if anyone used a dial-a-tap mod in conjunction with a pearly gates bridge. If so, how useful do you find it?

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    Re: Dial-a-tap with Pearly Gates?

    DIAL-A-TAP is the BEST... I highly recommend it!
    GMP Guitars RULE!

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    • #3
      Re: Dial-a-tap with Pearly Gates?

      Originally posted by GrooveHT
      Hey folks, I was wondering if anyone used a dial-a-tap mod in conjunction with a pearly gates bridge. If so, how useful do you find it?
      If your talking about the spin-a-split mod in SD's technical tips, I've done this with my big apple strat. As of now, I have it loaded with the following, PG bridge, fat 50 middle, and 59 neck. Both the PG and 59 have been wire to have spin-a-split so I don't have a tone control for either but since I never used them as tone controls I don't miss not having them. Also I have the switch wired like so:
      1. bridge
      2. bridge/middle
      3. middle
      4. neck/middle
      5. neck
      Extremely versatile especially in positions 2 and 4. The PG is a PG not a PG+. I saw so many posts here about how much better the PG was I bought one. To be honest I don't see alot of difference when played clean, but with some gain the PG really outshines the PG+. My 2 cents.
      Last edited by Stratsky; 04-24-2004, 06:44 AM.

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      • #4
        Re: Dial-a-tap with Pearly Gates?

        what do u mean by dial-a-tap?

        is it something like a PRS rotary switch? I'm trying to do that.

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        • #5
          Re: Dial-a-tap with Pearly Gates?

          One important thing is to use a 500k or 1meg pot so you don't load down the coil too much...
          GMP Guitars RULE!

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          • #6
            Re: Dial-a-tap with Pearly Gates?

            jazzy - by dial-a-tap, I mean the spin-a-split mod on the SD Tech Tips page...basically, you use a pot to incrimentally split a humbucker. So you can have one coil at 100% and one variable, from 0%-100%. It allows you a huge amount of variation in your tones, and its been recommended to me by several people.

            BTR - thanks, my next question was going to be what value pot to use! Do you prefer the 500k or the 1 meg?

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            • #7
              Re: Dial-a-tap with Pearly Gates?

              Originally posted by BachToRock
              One important thing is to use a 500k or 1meg pot so you don't load down the coil too much...
              A "no load" pot is also a really good idea so that you don't get any bleed through when you want the full humbucker.

              Chip
              Heritage 535 Special, Warmoth frankenstrat, MIM Strat, & Taylor 314C(no E)
              Amp Builds: Tweed Princeton (5F2-A) variation, 2 BF Princeton Reverb clones, & Super Reverb clone
              Sometimes use a Blues Jr., Tech 21 Trademark 10 & Power Engine 60
              SPG modded DS-1, TS-7 & CryBaby; Visual Sounds Rte. 66 & H2O; Guyatone Tremolo
              SD pickups: SSL-2, APS-2, tapped Quarter Pound, Custom 5 & Antiquity humbuckers

              "Conan! What are the best things in life?"
              "Girls, guitars, guns and cars!"

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              • #8
                Re: Dial-a-tap with Pearly Gates?

                Originally posted by jazzyjoepass
                what do u mean by dial-a-tap?

                is it something like a PRS rotary switch? I'm trying to do that.
                A rotary switch is not the same, that's representative of a switching system (which it is ). If you want a PRS rotary switch, then you'll have to get one from a PRS dealer, BTW ... their current system uses a small PCB in conjunction with it, unlike the old rotary switch, (factory moddified PSA-223, Beyschlab/Centralab) in which the wiring was done on the switch itself.
                The varisplit, varitap, dial-a-tap,spin-a-split, or whatever you want to call it is generally very effective, and offers a nice range of tonal shadings; especially clean. I personally do not hold with the single coil idea (hum), but others do, and it really shines clean. I believe Chip had stated before that a 100k pot often works best, as far as the fade in fade out ,... the no load definitely becomes important there.
                ::::To sound reinforcement engineer::::
                ... What? ... ::::snicker:::: ...Yes, ... Right, ...
                Could we please have everything louder than everything else ? ...

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                • #9
                  Re: Dial-a-tap with Pearly Gates?

                  Yeah spin a split is Great!........If you want a no load you can also use a mini switch and preset the effect and toggle between full humbucker and preset split. That is cut the pot out of the circuit and leave it in full humbucker mode.

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                  • #10
                    Re: Dial-a-tap with Pearly Gates?

                    Hi Kent -

                    the 100k pot worked best for a tapped single coil Quarter Pound pickup. That gave me the most useful range of control with the pot.

                    Haven't tried a "spin-a-split" yet, so I don't know what resistance would work best in that application. It may even depend on the output of the humbucker.

                    Chip
                    Heritage 535 Special, Warmoth frankenstrat, MIM Strat, & Taylor 314C(no E)
                    Amp Builds: Tweed Princeton (5F2-A) variation, 2 BF Princeton Reverb clones, & Super Reverb clone
                    Sometimes use a Blues Jr., Tech 21 Trademark 10 & Power Engine 60
                    SPG modded DS-1, TS-7 & CryBaby; Visual Sounds Rte. 66 & H2O; Guyatone Tremolo
                    SD pickups: SSL-2, APS-2, tapped Quarter Pound, Custom 5 & Antiquity humbuckers

                    "Conan! What are the best things in life?"
                    "Girls, guitars, guns and cars!"

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                    • #11
                      Re: Dial-a-tap with Pearly Gates?

                      Originally posted by Fresh_Start
                      A "no load" pot is also a really good idea so that you don't get any bleed through when you want the full humbucker.

                      Chip
                      I'm using 500 K pots, but I like the idea of no load pots. I believe I will try this.

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                      • #12
                        Re: Dial-a-tap with Pearly Gates?

                        I actually posted a question about this last week and had only one reply! It's pretty cool that it has been addressed already. I find that my J-Bass is a lot more versatile b/c I can 'blend' the pickups. It really makes a huge difference in tone, to my ears. I'm gonna try this with my Strat soon...PGn and FSb.

                        Farkus
                        2007 Strat ('78 bridge, a2 Pro neck)
                        1976 Strat (Antiquity 1 set)

                        Fender, Mesa, Marshall Amps

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                        • #13
                          Re: Dial-a-tap with Pearly Gates?

                          dial-a-tap sounds like a number you would call to tap pickups....
                          Down at the edge, close by a river.
                          Close to the edge, round by the corner.
                          Close to the end, down by the corner.
                          Down at the edge, round by the river.

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                            Re: Dial-a-tap with Pearly Gates?

                            Originally posted by Fresh_Start
                            Hi Kent -

                            the 100k pot worked best for a tapped single coil Quarter Pound pickup. That gave me the most useful range of control with the pot.

                            Haven't tried a "spin-a-split" yet, so I don't know what resistance would work best in that application. It may even depend on the output of the humbucker.

                            Chip
                            The one I did years ago on a friends (first time I ever did it circa 15 years or so) ... was on a PAF style HB in the bridge position of a H/S/S strat style guitar ... I used the 250k-A pot thats was in there, worked just fine. For a hotter pup though, and higher DCR/Z a 500k might do better. Never got around to playing with the tapers, or altering them on a customized basis though.
                            ::::To sound reinforcement engineer::::
                            ... What? ... ::::snicker:::: ...Yes, ... Right, ...
                            Could we please have everything louder than everything else ? ...

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                            • #15
                              Re: Dial-a-tap with Pearly Gates?

                              Hey Kent; How well do you think something like this might work?
                              Its something I've wondered about.
                              Dial slowly from one coil, through full humbucker, to the other coil.

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