moltenmetalburn
Active member
The coil tap vs coil split is apparently completely lost on guitarists. I have basically never heard them referred to correctly. 
Here I am to teach you, and help you avoid embarrassment.
Most of you have never heard a coil tap. Truth.
This is NOT semantics.
A coil tap is when the pickup wire is wound around the bobbin to a certain number of winds. The wire is terminated and a new coil is wound on top of that one.
This will provide a break in the coil windings allowing you to tap into only the lesser windings for more vintage sounds or the full windings for death metal mayhem.
THIS IS A COIL TAP.
Most guitarists these days are familiar with "coil tap" switches on guitars allows single coil sounds from humbuckers and other creative switching. Is is not a coil tap in any way. It does not tap into the coils allowing lesser winds on the bobbin of the pickup in use.
These work by dumping one coil to ground and are referred to as a COIL SPLIT.
Though the coil is not actually split into two the humbucker is by using only one.
See it's pretty easy and simple.
Here I am to teach you, and help you avoid embarrassment.
Most of you have never heard a coil tap. Truth.
This is NOT semantics.
A coil tap is when the pickup wire is wound around the bobbin to a certain number of winds. The wire is terminated and a new coil is wound on top of that one.
This will provide a break in the coil windings allowing you to tap into only the lesser windings for more vintage sounds or the full windings for death metal mayhem.
THIS IS A COIL TAP.
Most guitarists these days are familiar with "coil tap" switches on guitars allows single coil sounds from humbuckers and other creative switching. Is is not a coil tap in any way. It does not tap into the coils allowing lesser winds on the bobbin of the pickup in use.
These work by dumping one coil to ground and are referred to as a COIL SPLIT.
Though the coil is not actually split into two the humbucker is by using only one.
See it's pretty easy and simple.
