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

[Artie]

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

all those things can be done but its a pita and may or may not be worth the expense. if some one wants to pay me an absorbadant sum, ill make one for ya. lots of wires, seven total.

Jeremy; If I get a chance tomorrow, I'll have to post some picks of a pair of humbuckers that I got from someone on this forum. Each coil of each humbucker is a stack. So there's 4-wires from each coil, or 8-wires from each humbucker. One coil is a rail and the other is a quasi-parallel-axis. They came in some Godin.

The wiring possibilities make my head spin.

 

[Will S-T]

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

How the hell did this thread end up on page one?
And no, it wasn't me. It showed ArtieToo as posting
the last post about an hour ago, but the date on
the post is 04-20-2012, 03:52 PM, Huh??

 

[blueman335]

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

You've just entered...the Twilight Zone (dramatic music).

I think it has something to do with you being in Australia, with the time zones, and of course, you're upside down.

 

[Will S-T]

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

You've just entered...the Twilight Zone (dramatic music).

I think it has something to do with you being in Australia, with the time zones, and of course, you're upside down.

Yes but we're 13 odd hours ahead of you guys and the water in our toilets flush in the other direction, counter clockwise. ( just went and checked BTW )

Oh no, "BACK TO TH FUTUREmg:

 

[Eric Dahlberg]

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

How the hell did this thread end up on page one?
And no, it wasn't me. It showed ArtieToo as posting
the last post about an hour ago, but the date on
the post is 04-20-2012, 03:52 PM, Huh??

Clearly, the universe is sending a message to SD that we need proper coil-tappable pickups.

 

[Artie]

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

What may have happened is that someone posted, and then deleted their post. If you delete your post in a few seconds, it doesn't show up, but the "bump" is still there.

Maybe. :boggled:

 

[robrob2]

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

Even Sweetwater gets it wrong in their specs for the Les Paul Studio: "Controls 2 x volume, 2 x tone, 3-way pickup selector, push/pull coil taps"

I checked the Gibson sight and they correctly call the switches, "coil splitting."

 

[kiyokazu101]

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

So if I understand the difference correctly, can you wire a humbucker that is both coil tapped in full mode, but untapped when split into a single coil?

 

[Edgecrusher]

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

So if I understand the difference correctly, can you wire a humbucker that is both coil tapped in full mode, but untapped when split into a single coil?

:banghead: While theoretically possible with a pickup that was built custom like a stag mag with coil taps and some fancy switching... Coil tapping is for single coils and splitting is for humbuckers.

 

[Hairmail]

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

The way I've always seen it coil-tap is tapping the output of a humbucker around halfway so that is has similar output to a singlecoil and coil-split is shutting down one of the coils in the humbucker. I've never tried this before but I heard that there is humming in coil-split but none in tapped humbuckers. Can someone correct me on this?

 

[GuitarDoc]

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

Well, no, not exactly.

Coil splitting is simply that...splitting the 2 coils into 1 active coil. Coil tapping is taking a lead out of the winding of a single coil somewhere (anywhere, not necessarily in the middle, and usually between 10 and 30%) between the start and finish of that coil.

So, it is possible to TAP one of the coils of a bucker and still play it in humbucker mode. Therefore, it will be tapped, but NOT split. It will not, in this case, be totally humbucking, however, because of the unbalanced coils.

I think (without rereading this entire post again) that this has been covered, so I am just summarizing/repeating it.