Anyone Coil Tapped a Suhr Aldrich?

[tonmazz]

I'm going to put Aldrich bridge and neck pick ups in my Les Paul and I'm debating on getting the push pull pot and tapping the coil on the Bridge. Anyone done this? Is it worth it or does it sound like poop? Would love to have a really nice single coil tone along with the ripping humbucker.

 

[roodboy]

Sounded real good tapped with a suhr modern. Still not stratty but good.

 

[Hollywood]

Tonmazz.....What have I told you about them drugs ?
Next thing you are a gonna wantin to know is if Doug Aldrich can become the house guitar player on HEE-HAW.

 

[tonmazz]

Tonmazz.....What have I told you about them drugs ?
Next thing you are a gonna wantin to know is if Doug Aldrich can become the house guitar player on HEE-HAW.

Doug is great...but he is no Roy Clark!! Roy da man! I want to play Big Log by Robert Plant with a little twang, is that so wrong! ps - I did not say I wanted to play with Plants Big Log before the usual suspects, who I really enjoy by the way, start to abuse me.

 

[Hollywood]

 

[luxxtone]

I'm going to put Aldrich bridge and neck pick ups in my Les Paul and I'm debating on getting the push pull pot and tapping the coil on the Bridge. Anyone done this? Is it worth it or does it sound like poop? Would love to have a really nice single coil tone along with the ripping humbucker.

Sounds great tapped....I'd do it!

 

[Motorpud]

I've had em tapped before too, sounds great

 

[tonmazz]

You guys are pumping me up! I just ordered the push pull from mojotone so can't wait to try it out.

 

[Mailman1971]

.....Doug is great...but he is no Roy Clark!! Roy da man!

Oh yeah?? Well Roy is great....but he aint no BUCK OWENS!!

 

[grooveHT]

I'm going to put Aldrich bridge and neck pick ups in my Les Paul and I'm debating on getting the push pull pot and tapping the coil on the Bridge. Anyone done this? Is it worth it or does it sound like poop? Would love to have a really nice single coil tone along with the ripping humbucker.

I have Aldrich bridge and neck along with a single coil in an HSH arrangement on a 24 fret guitar, of completely different body woods, with a 25.5" scale length...I don't coil-split the pickups individually, but I auto-split them in 2 and 4 positions in conjunction with the middle single coil. All that said, they sound great with the single coil! Very quacky, and sounds pretty close to positions 2 and 4 on a strat with single coils. I realize that you have no middle single, but from what I'm getting from them coil-split here, I'd say go for it!

 

[tonmazz]

.....Doug is great...but he is no Roy Clark!! Roy da man!

Oh yeah?? Well Roy is great....but he aint no BUCK OWENS!!

Oh yeah, Buck Owens is great but he aint no Dwight Yoakam!

 

[Mailman1971]

.....Doug is great...but he is no Roy Clark!! Roy da man!

Oh yeah?? Well Roy is great....but he aint no BUCK OWENS!!

Oh yeah, Buck Owens is great but he aint no Dwight Yoakam!

You are correct sir. But he sure in hell is no Bo Diddly!

 

[tonmazz]

.....Doug is great...but he is no Roy Clark!! Roy da man!

Oh yeah?? Well Roy is great....but he aint no BUCK OWENS!!

Oh yeah, Buck Owens is great but he aint no Dwight Yoakam!

You are correct sir. But he sure in hell is no Bo Diddly!

Bo may not know diddly...but he sure aint no donbarzini

 

[Mailman1971]

.....Doug is great...but he is no Roy Clark!! Roy da man!

Oh yeah?? Well Roy is great....but he aint no BUCK OWENS!!

Oh yeah, Buck Owens is great but he aint no Dwight Yoakam!

You are correct sir. But he sure in hell is no Bo Diddly!

Bo may not know diddly...but he sure aint no donbarzini

Your not just 'whistlin dixie!'............

 

[petejt]

I have. I have a pair of Aldrich pickups in my electric guitar with a coil-split, and it sounds fantastic. The output reduces a little bit, which is expected of going from humbuckers to single coils, but I use that to my advantage.

It's not as good as the full-on glassy twang of a proper Fender Strat, but it's close!

The only improvement I would make, is to get a third pickup for the middle position and a 5-way pickup switch, so I can blend the split neck pickup and middle pickup.

 

[firejack]

I say do it.
I've got an Aldrich set being installed in my PGM301 and I'm getting independent coil-splits for each pickup.
I always get coil-splits installed on my guitars.
Even if it doesn't give you an actual single-coil sound, it still gives you more options and can really take your clean tones to another level on a guitar that only has humbuckers.