Concerning electronics, I am a double lefthander, but this I did understand. Very informative und to me it has cleared the difference of the terms when hearing of or speaking about coil splitting/coil tapping. Thanks a lot!
thank you for this: My Guitar is a Schecter Tempest Custom, and it has a Coil Tap, which I like, but it doesn't sound to me what people say coil tapping is, it does lower the volume of my pickups and does have a warmer tone though. And the way I use it when I play live is;, I'll pick the pedal setting that I want to play in and I'll play tapped, then I'll play untapped, it's a nice way to switch from strum to lead without switching pedal effects. I also use it in reverse, where I would tap at the bridge of a song for a softer tone, or simply tap to simultaneously turn the sound of my Guitar down. It's almost like an Acoustic Simulator, I do like it. But I'm glad you cleared this up.
Great explaination in plain english. I recently had this discussion with an engineer who was trying to understand what a customer was asking of him. The customer kept using the term "coil tap" interchangeably in the same sentence, driving the engineer crazy.. LOL.
thank you. short and to the point. I was afraid that i would have to wade through hours and hours of videos on youtube to understand this. but u made it real easy
Interesting. Never knew this. Guess you could creative with a humbucker and split and tap it to get 100% of one coil and say 50% of the other. I’m thinking splitting a bridge pickup results in a thin sound but perhaps tapping the other coil to blend a portion of it back in might be useful.
What do you call adding a resistor to the grounding of one coil of a humbucker so that it is not totally split but has some of its power left . This is what PRS is doing on the DGT, and I believe they are incorporating into some of their other switching circuits. Unfortunately I've only seen diagrams for the DGT. On other guitars their blade switching is not the same as a regular superswitch.
They've become a little too synonymous, it seems. It's a bit hard to search up info on coil tapping because all I kept getting was tons of stuff on coil splitting humbuckers. So, basically, you determine the low output point you want, insert your tap there, then wind the rest of the coil to its intended full output. It's a three wire arrangement.
I came across your channel a few days ago and have already spent hours watching, and subscribed! Your videos are excellent! I wonder if you/someone could explain something which is confusing me - if you tap a coil at, say, two thirds of the way through and add a wire to output, but then continue to wind the final third from the same connection, would you not get some interference or phase issue coming from the additional coil when using the tapped output? I.e. if the beginning of the additional coil is sharing a connection with the tapped output, wouldn't that mean you get some output from the additional coil coming back in the opposite direction? Apologies if I've described that badly! It would be much easier to draw!
Now that you've helped us understand coil tapping, do we get the same tonal technical result by adjusting the volumes on our guitars to the corresponding output level as an alternative?
Fast answer: no. Reduncing the windings on a pickup will not just reduce volume. It will also change the frequency response and resonat frequency of the pickup, witch you can't achieve by using a normal volume potenciometre.
Hey Dylan, i was wondering if i buy a really good multimeter for checking everything on a guitar and also want to be able to check other electrical devices, what should that multimeter be able to do? What kind of fuses make sense?
Why do you get a volume drop when you split a humbucker? I hate that and it's pretty much the reason why I don't use it on my LP even though it's there. Thanks.
Jshortca1 You get a volume drop because when you coil split, you lose half the power of your pickup. The amount depends on the pickup. We have designed a pickup that does not drop when split. It is a pet peeve of mine as well. Check them out. www.dylanpickups.com/#!product/prd1/2710348371/center-punch-humbucker
