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Well, that brings up.... What's tapping? I've heard people call coil splitting tapping so many times I assumed theye the same thing. I meant splitting too..
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OK.. I got the idea from other sites about what the "actual" difference is.. "A coil tap is when you have a line out somewhere in the middle of the coil. For example, you can have 1 single coil pickup that is wound to 12K with a tap at 7K. That means that you can switch between a 12K pickup and a 7K pickup.
Coil split is when you turn off 1 coil of a humbucker. This never sounds like a "normal" single coil, but high output humbuckers with alnico magnets do get a little closer to sounding like single coils."
Now, why would you ever bother "tapping" into a coil on a single coil pup these days when there are so many different stacked singles around that you could "split" the coils and get the same or better effect? Seems like a waste of energy to me.. I'll just keep being a splitter!!
And sorry for hijacking the thread loki..Every man dies... Not every man really lives!!Comment
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