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Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: Twinfan on September 06, 2006, 11:30:57 AM

Title: Coil tapped MQ? How does it work?
Post by: Twinfan on September 06, 2006, 11:30:57 AM

I'm thinking of getting a coil tapped MQ to go in my Gordon Smith SG and I'm wondering how the coil tap works?  I understand on a humbucker it isolates one of the coils, but on a P-90 does it just cut somewhere along the length of the coils?  In that case you just get a "less wound" P-90?

Is that right?

Title: Coil tapped MQ? How does it work?
Post by: Philly Q on September 06, 2006, 01:59:15 PM

Correct!  

It's a proper coil tap (although people often say "coil tap" when they really mean "coil split" i.e. switching off one coil of a humbucker).  

I think Duncan have it as an option on some of their powerful single coils like Quarterpounders, and Schecter did it on their old Monstertone pickups.

Title: Coil tapped MQ? How does it work?
Post by: CaffeineJunkie on September 06, 2006, 02:17:40 PM

yup, sounds really good clean too, very mellow...

Title: Coil tapped MQ? How does it work?
Post by: Twinfan on September 06, 2006, 03:23:24 PM

Nice one - cheers guys.  I'll go for one of those then.

Can you get un-potted MQs (as asked in my other thread)?