Tapped Hi-output pickups?

[Imp]

hey guys - lots of people talking about tapping pickups atm, but which comes closest to a standard singlecoil when tapped?

i've got a lil 59 or a HR bridge to choose between for bridge strat, just wondering which covers more bases, kinda thing.

 

[psy]

Re: Tapped Hi-output pickups?

Hi,
depends on what a standard SC shall sound like to your ears. My split HR-n sounds like a real SC but misses the quack known from a Strat. My JB perfectly replaces a SC for me. Maybe try the JB-Junior or Lil Screaming Daemon as they have more output than Lil59

Chris

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: Tapped Hi-output pickups?

Tapping a pickup is differant from splitting the coils of humbucker. Splitting mean you eliminate one coil of a dula coil humbucker...you will not get the tone of a vintage Strat or Tele pickup that way.

Tapping means you start out with an overwound single coil...maybe overwound to 10K. And there are two outputs: one at the end of the coil for 10K output and one attached to the middle of the coil for vintage output....maybe 6.5K.

Lew

 

[BS123]

Re: Tapped Hi-output pickups?

I think he means splitting right? In that case, it's easy...

The Stag Mag. It's essentially two single coils put together in one housing and RWRP from each other. I think that's the way...

Evan?

 

[Imp]

Re: Tapped Hi-output pickups?

oo good call, i've never seen or heard a stag mag in real life though..

i wanna keep a decent singlecoil tone within reasonable reach, but i need a bridge HB at least.. i bet theyre's a few people in this position heh

 

[Inge Malmstein]

Re: Tapped Hi-output pickups?

I've heard that a splitted JB comes close to a SC.

 

[Jester700]

Re: Tapped Hi-output pickups?

Split JB isn't bad - higher output buckers are better at splitting than PAF types in general; remember that strat coils are wound to around 6k. That would be 12k for 2 coils.

The stag mag works great for this, but I actually don't like the stagger, and as a bucker it only sounds good at the neck. That's where I have mine.

 

[Wattage]

Re: Tapped Hi-output pickups?

I had a G&L with w JBb/59n set up for splits and they both had very respectable split sounds, the 59 especially.