Thinking about getting one of these for an Esquire I made. Anyone have experience with one?
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Duncan Hot Tele - Tapped Bridge Pickup
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i like the hot tapped tele pup, qp tapped too, especially for an esquire. the hot is more middy, where the qp has more bottom. i ran the switch:
1-tap output with .01 cap, no tone control
2-tap output with tone control
3-full output, no tone control
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Yes, SD tend to do the taps on halfway. This often makes a very low tapped coil. They would be better off with 2/3, I think.I get the feeling the A8 will blow your skirt up more so - Edgecrusher
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so where did you put the tap for those? like when i made some tapped pups, i did 8000 turns, then another 2500 turns and was pretty happy with the result. also did some playing with 8000 turns of #42 then another 3000 of #43. the pups were for customers so i only got to hear them for a bit but the owners were happy.
having the taps too close, like 10%, doesnt make any sense to me. i really like the 6.5k/9.5k of the duncan custom shop pup. i want there to be a significant difference so i can get a good variety of tones. vintage from the 6.5k and hot a juicy from the 9.5k
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i never wound a pickup myself, i ordered it that way, so no glue how many turns.
it's a zhangbucker super paul bunyan with 10.5k of AWG42. first tap at 9.5k for the regular paul bunyan wind (despite i was warned that's quite closet, but i couldn't decide which model to get) and a 2nd tap at 8k.
the step from 10.5k to 8k is not subtle. i have no tone for the 10.5k (tone only connected for the taps). the step from 10.5k to 9.5k is more subtle but i don't wanna miss it, because i prefer the 9.5k. still sounds a lot like a tele but a very big one. so to me 9.5k is the sweet spot and if i want some more beaf i go to 10.5k. you lose noticable highs so the attack starts to get less pronounced (great for heavy stuff).
8k is more beafy than most of my other teles (also because of the rods), but actually enough twang for me.
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