Wat is coil tapping
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GuitarGuru88
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Re: Wat is coil tapping
When you tap a humbucker via coil tap(usually on the tone knob) you basically make that humbucker into a single coil pickup. right guys? anything left out?
When you tap a humbucker via coil tap(usually on the tone knob) you basically make that humbucker into a single coil pickup. right guys? anything left out?
muttonchopsrule
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i always thought that was coil splitting.
coil tapping, i'm actually not so sure about myself. i'm sure this thread would do a lot better in the pickup lounge, but can anyone enlighten us??
GuitarGuru88 said:
i always thought that was coil splitting.
coil tapping, i'm actually not so sure about myself. i'm sure this thread would do a lot better in the pickup lounge, but can anyone enlighten us??
GuitarGuru88
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Re: Wat is coil tapping
yeah I think it blocks frequency to one half of the humbucker so it is splitting the coil
muttonchopsrule said:
yeah I think it blocks frequency to one half of the humbucker so it is splitting the coil
bert123
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Re: Wat is coil tapping
From Seymour's Glossary:
Tapped Pickup - A coil which has two or more hot leads exiting at different percentages of the total wind in order to provide multiple output levels and tones. (See "Split Pickup").
Splitting, Split Pickup - The process of grounding out one of the two coils of a humbucking pickup thereby producing a single coil sound. (See, for comparison, "Tapped Pickup").
From Seymour's Glossary:
Tapped Pickup - A coil which has two or more hot leads exiting at different percentages of the total wind in order to provide multiple output levels and tones. (See "Split Pickup").
Splitting, Split Pickup - The process of grounding out one of the two coils of a humbucking pickup thereby producing a single coil sound. (See, for comparison, "Tapped Pickup").
GuitarGuru88
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Re: Wat is coil tapping
from my experience the sound just gets thinner when tapped with a slight hum and when its not tapped full no hum sound
from my experience the sound just gets thinner when tapped with a slight hum and when its not tapped full no hum sound
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Re: Wat is coil tapping
Ok...coil splitting is done on a Humbucking pickup and you simply "turn off" one of the coils, and run it on only one coil, the reason you get hum is because it is not a single coil and can not "buck" the hum.
a coil tap is 2 seperate outputs from a single coil pickup...with a single coil pickup you have 2 wires, with a tapped single coil you have 3 wires, if you read the dc resistance the 2 "hot" wires will have 2 different dc readings, say the total pickup is wound to 8k, then the "tap" is at 6k, with a switch you gan go back and fourth between 6 and 8k, giving you 2 different sounds with 2 pickup.
Does that help?
Ok...coil splitting is done on a Humbucking pickup and you simply "turn off" one of the coils, and run it on only one coil, the reason you get hum is because it is not a single coil and can not "buck" the hum.
a coil tap is 2 seperate outputs from a single coil pickup...with a single coil pickup you have 2 wires, with a tapped single coil you have 3 wires, if you read the dc resistance the 2 "hot" wires will have 2 different dc readings, say the total pickup is wound to 8k, then the "tap" is at 6k, with a switch you gan go back and fourth between 6 and 8k, giving you 2 different sounds with 2 pickup.
Does that help?
