Coil tapping Seth Lovers?

[korovamilkdud]

Re: Coil tapping Seth Lovers?

I had a (follow me here) potted, 4-conductor, Seth Lover Model in the neck of my Les Paul (actually, half of it is still there).

Split sounded tinny to my girlfriend at the time, but I really liked it split. I've hear worse. Splitting a Jazz Model not something I'd recommend.

I've also enjoyed the sound of a split Pearly Gates.

SO....it CAN work, but it is hit and miss; AND, as ALWAYS, tone is subjective. What you like someone else might not. I still have a rather metallic sounding neck tone, but I like it. Preference.

 

[Markk]

Re: Coil tapping Seth Lovers?

Just to add to this small mess; we're all referring to splitting the pups, not tapping.

I also don't know why they can't sound good. They might just have that 'magical' sound that someone's looking for and will fit perfectly somewhere.

 

[LtKojak]

Re: Coil tapping Seth Lovers?

I had a (follow me here) potted, 4-conductor, Seth Lover Model in the neck of my Les Paul (actually, half of it is still there).

What happened to the other half?

Did the korova cat eat it...? :bling:

:joke:

 

[korovamilkdud]

Re: Coil tapping Seth Lovers?

What happened to the other half?

Did the korova cat eat it...? :bling:

:joke:

Right now what's in the guitar is a seth/59 hybrid. I think the other coil was sold as one half of another hybrid actually.

So yeah. The cat ate it.

 

[jeremy]

Re: Coil tapping Seth Lovers?

way to act like a bunch of assholes in a thread started by a newbie. great first impression guys.

 

[Gypsyblue]

Re: Coil tapping Seth Lovers?

I've used Seth Lovers but not the 4 conductor version. I think the Pearly Gates are sort of similar though and I still do use those. Split into single coils, I think the tone is a little on the weak and thin side (especially the bridge pickup split and used all by itself), but I do find the tone to be very useable when I split the neck and bridge Pearly Gates pickups into single coils and then combine the two pickups.

 

[Bludave]

Re: Coil tapping Seth Lovers?

The seths are Neck: 7.2 k Bridge: 8.1 k

I have a JazzN & a 59B The DC reading on these are JazzN 7.72 & 59B 8.13.

I have these tapped and they work fine.

all three of these are rated at moderate output so I really don't see why they would not work.

 

[Zerberus]

Re: Coil tapping Seth Lovers?

EIEIEIEIEIEIEI, are they puting things in the water ´round these parts again? :smack::banghead:

Seths can be ordered as 4 conductor at no extra charge, just like every other Duncan. Standard issue is however "classic" braided shield huimbucker wire.

A few years back I set up a Seth to be splittable by shunting in a third wire between the coils and shorting it out to ground (PRS and Carvin 3 conductor pickups do the same thing BTW, the "split" wire is analogous to the "White + red" connection SD uses).

I personally found it weak and anemic, I´d go so far as to say the undernourished emo-goth version of a single coil :laugh2:

Since I generally don´t really like things that are "weak", "anemic", "Emo", or "Goth", it goes without saying that that wire came out faster than it was added :friday:

 

[LtKojak]

Re: Coil tapping Seth Lovers?

way to act like a bunch of assholes in a thread started by a newbie. great first impression guys.

The use of unproper language is against the rules of this very forum.

You, Jeremy, of all people, should know better... :scratchch

Why the name calling, BTW? Any beef? PM me, if you've got something to say..

 

[jeremy]

Re: Coil tapping Seth Lovers?

no beef. i had counted on the auto censor to catch it but whatever. i hate when a new user comes in and this happens to their thread. it happens every where on the net, but i wish it didnt happen here.

in my first (and only relevant) post in this thread, i asked a question. im aware that they make 4 cond seths but when you buy one off the shelf 90% of the time its not. i just wanted to make sure th op actually had a pup that he could split without opening it up.