Splitting pearly gates...any good?

[extendedping]

Hi I have a pearly gates set in one of my guitars and love them. was thinking of having them split to get sigle coil sound and make that my main axe. My question is...if split is the pg "hot" enough to sound decent as a single coil. I don't really understand the below info taken off this site but do you basically cut these values in half when coil splitting? cause if so wouldn't the pickups be lower output then even a vintage strat? thanks in advance...

dc resistance
Neck : 7.3 k
Bridge : 8.35 k

resonance peak
Neck : 7.5 KHz
Bridge : 6.5 KHz

 

[Aceman]

Re: Splitting pearly gates...any good?

No personal experience: However, I want to say I've read a number of threads that say they sound good split. I suggest do a search....

 

[Robert S.]

Re: Splitting pearly gates...any good?

The PG splits well but don't expect any std humbucker to sound like a Strat pickup.

I split my PGn all the time but usually in combination with a split bridge pickup.

 

[idsnowdog]

Re: Splitting pearly gates...any good?

The PG split is very bright and raspy. I found it most useful when used clean in combination with another pickup. Also try it parallel you may like that tone better than split.

 

[extendedping]

Re: Splitting pearly gates...any good?

The PG split is very bright and raspy. I found it most useful when used clean in combination with another pickup. Also try it parallel you may like that tone better than split.

Ok I could fish around but figure I'd just ask here...what does try it parallel mean?

 

[Fender_Punk]

Re: Splitting pearly gates...any good?

It means try wiring a series parallel push/pull or switch instead of series/split. When you wire a humbucker in parallel you generally get a truer single coil tone as the out put of a bucker wired in parallel is less than a split bucker. series/parallel switching is easy to wire up and I think you'll find, a better tone. Btw, this wiring (ser/par) is also known as a "coil tap".

 

[Robert S.]

Re: Splitting pearly gates...any good?

No, it is not a coil tap. A coil tap is a term that describes a single coil pickup wound hot, with an additional "tap" or lead connected inside the wind at the point where the pickup would normally be wound to for std output. What you end up with is a single coil that has normal output at the tap and high output at the end of the wind.

Splitting is when you disable one coil of a humbucker. It is not the same as a tap.

Series and parallel refers to how the coils in a humbucker are connected to each other.

There is a tonal diference between split and parallel but it isn't huge and I don't find that one sounds more "single coil" than the other. The biggest difference is that parallel is hum cancelling, split is not.

The biggest wiring difference is that parallel wiring requires a dpdt switch. Splitting a humbucker can be done with a simple spst switch or off of a std 5 way switch with a couple small changes in the way the switch is wired.

 

[CesarM13]

Re: Splitting pearly gates...any good?

The biggest wiring difference is that parallel wiring requires a dpdt switch.

not necessarilly, you can use push pull pots as well as triple shot rings i think.