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yeah kinda a newbie question i want to learn as much about this coil tapping as possible

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?


Originally Posted by GuitarGuru88When 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?

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??


Originally Posted by muttonchopsrulei 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??

yeah I think it blocks frequency to one half of the humbucker so it is splitting the coil

Coil taping is not the same as splitting, splitting is when u only use one of the pickups in the humbucker causing hum. Tapping is redusing the output of the humber to give a split tone with no hum

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 quot;Split Pickupquot;).

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, quot;Tapped Pickupquot;).

im so confused does anyody have sound clips for comparison

from my experience the sound just gets thinner when tapped with a slight hum and when its not tapped full no hum sound

Ok...coil splitting is done on a Humbucking pickup and you simply quot;turn offquot; 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 quot;buckquot; 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 quot;hotquot; wires will have 2 different dc readings, say the total pickup is wound to 8k, then the quot;tapquot; 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?

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