Coil split vs coil tap, do you know what they mean?

[Markk]

I'm shocked and appalled at the amount of people that don't know the difference and mix the two up.

The question is, do you know the difference? (because I sure as hell do)

 

[guitarded]

Re: Coil split vs coil tap, do you know what they mean?

Always thought they meant the same thing. Now I have something to do

 

[Markk]

Re: Coil split vs coil tap, do you know what they mean?

Ha! Caught one!
I'll explain them later in the thread unless someone beats me to it

 

[supernosher]

Re: Coil split vs coil tap, do you know what they mean?

I just wanna know why some people call it coil swapping. Cuz that's even more shocking and appalling!

 

[Markk]

Re: Coil split vs coil tap, do you know what they mean?

I just wanna know why some people call it coil swapping. Cuz that's even more shocking and appalling!

:smack:

 

[jeremy]

Re: Coil split vs coil tap, do you know what they mean?

i used to fight this battle, after many years of trying and sounding like a broken record i gave up. good on you to pick it up again.
people offer the arguement that its only semantics and "you know what i mean" but thats bs

 

[blueman335]

Re: Coil split vs coil tap, do you know what they mean?

I just wanna know why some people call it coil swapping. Cuz that's even more shocking and appalling!

Coil swapping is something completely different, it's Artie's ingenious invention to pair coils from separate HB's.

 

[super rad stuff]

Re: Coil split vs coil tap, do you know what they mean?

all i know is that i've tried just about every wiring mod there is, and i still don't know the difference, other than a coil split cuts one coil to ground and a coil tap just means....:?:

edit: the rob option fits me perfectly

 

[super rad stuff]

Re: Coil split vs coil tap, do you know what they mean?

:smack:

:smack::smack::dunce::smack::smack:

 

[Jet-Jaguar]

Re: Coil split vs coil tap, do you know what they mean?

I'm a noob, but I thought that Coil tap meant that, when you have the wire go around the bobbin say 2000 times in total, what you do, when you make it, is spin it around 1000 times, have a wire lead out of the bobbin and back and then spin it around 1000 more times. That way, you can have the pickup give you a sound with either the wire run round 2k times (as normal,) or with a switch, a sound with 1k times around.

If that's not it, then I'm going to patent that idea, because that idea rocks.

And coil split is where you only use half of a humbucker.

 

[mrturtle_91]

Re: Coil split vs coil tap, do you know what they mean?

I'm a noob, but I thought that Coil tap meant that, when you have the wire go around the bobbin say 2000 times in total, what you do, when you make it, is spin it around 1000 times, have a wire lead out of the bobbin and back and then spin it around 1000 more times. That way, you can have the pickup give you a sound with either the wire run round 2k times (as normal,) or with a switch, a sound with 1k times around.

If that's not it, then I'm going to patent that idea, because that idea rocks.

And coil split is where you only use half of a humbucker.

that's pretty much the basics of it.

 

[super rad stuff]

Re: Coil split vs coil tap, do you know what they mean?

I'm a noob, but I thought that Coil tap meant that, when you have the wire go around the bobbin say 2000 times in total, what you do, when you make it, is spin it around 1000 times, have a wire lead out of the bobbin and back and then spin it around 1000 more times. That way, you can have the pickup give you a sound with either the wire run round 2k times (as normal,) or with a switch, a sound with 1k times around.

If that's not it, then I'm going to patent that idea, because that idea rocks.

i'm pretty sure that's how the new strat-bro 90s work

 

[doctadre]

Re: Coil split vs coil tap, do you know what they mean?

Just got a crazy idea:

Using the ideas of Coil tapping, we can create a humbucker pickup that has two modes: Tap each coil, giving two output options: a lower output and a higher output. wire these options to a switch, and the guitarist can have the low output for a more vintage sound, or just use the full windings to get a more modern, high gain pickup tone.



Dre

 

[mrturtle_91]

Re: Coil split vs coil tap, do you know what they mean?

Just got a crazy idea:

Using the ideas of Coil tapping, we can create a humbucker pickup that has two modes: Tap each coil, giving two output options: a lower output and a higher output. wire these options to a switch, and the guitarist can have the low output for a more vintage sound, or just use the full windings to get a more modern, high gain pickup tone.



Dre

interesting idea, don't know if it would work, but it's interesting.

 

[Aceman]

Re: Coil split vs coil tap, do you know what they mean?

Semantic are key here. I mean really, is a split anything more than a tap at the 50% mark of two singles in series? For that matter, should we consider the series arrangement as a single entity? I say yes.

All splits are taps, but not all taps are splits.

 

[spule85]

Re: Coil split vs coil tap, do you know what they mean?

i dont know the difference, never even heard of tap coil befor now, i have splits in my schecter, which is where it uses a single coil from each or one humbucker?? i can hear the difference although i still like both my humbuckers on, but i do swap and change.

 

[Markk]

Re: Coil split vs coil tap, do you know what they mean?

Semantic are key here. I mean really, is a split anything more than a tap at the 50% mark of two singles in series? For that matter, should we consider the series arrangement as a single entity? I say yes.

All splits are taps, but not all taps are splits.

But a tap should still have humbucking' capabilities where as a split is no longer a humbucker.

 

[ErikH]

Re: Coil split vs coil tap, do you know what they mean?

Coil split is where a humbucker (a pickup with 2 individual coils) has one coil shunted to ground leaving the other coil working.

Coil tap is where a SINGLE COIL has a secondary hot lead "tapped" at a specific point within the wind. A 9k single-coil could have a tap at 6.2k for a nice vintage sound and then full output at 9k.

 

[BigJoe77]

Re: Coil split vs coil tap, do you know what they mean?

I gotta disagree with Aceman. I'm not of the opinion that splits and taps are the same things. It's fine to say that it doesn't matter to you what it's called, but they are different things.

 

[Rich_S]

Re: Coil split vs coil tap, do you know what they mean?

Just got a crazy idea:

Using the ideas of Coil tapping, we can create a humbucker pickup that has two modes: Tap each coil, giving two output options: a lower output and a higher output. wire these options to a switch, and the guitarist can have the low output for a more vintage sound, or just use the full windings to get a more modern, high gain pickup tone.



Dre

Already been done. See Ginormous' LP Bass, or the old Les Paul Professional/Recording models. Long live Terry Kath!