Author Topic: Fitting new p'ups with coil tap (Read 3672 times)

jibidy · « **on:** January 03, 2007, 12:43:36 PM »

im not sure what pups to get or how to fit a coil tap. can anybody help? ide like to get lots of sustain and liquid tone with a punchy percussive chugg and tight articulate single notes. and the coil tap for more tonal variation and nice twang. also would it cost alot. ill go for a calibrated set but i wouldnt know how to wire a coil tap.

Thankyou alllllll!!!!!!!!!

plastercaster · « **Reply #1 on:** January 03, 2007, 02:51:44 PM »

this questions for the pickups section.
I think you can only get coil taps on P-90s though.

gingataff · « **Reply #2 on:** January 03, 2007, 02:55:12 PM »

I think jibidy may mean a coil split.

jibidy · « **Reply #3 on:** January 03, 2007, 04:31:45 PM »

yer i mean when you have a humbucker and use a push pull or switch of some sort to take a coil away making it a single coil. coil splitting yer?

bit of a noob eh'.

sorry and thankyou

gingataff · « **Reply #4 on:** January 04, 2007, 01:34:44 AM »

You'll need four conductor wiring but how you wire it will vary very slightly depending what guitar you have, but you can get lots of diagrams from guitarelectronics.com.

jibidy · « **Reply #5 on:** January 04, 2007, 03:48:54 PM »

i have a volume and tone pot. should i try to replace both with push/pull pot, one for each pickup split,or should i just use the volume and wire it so it splits both pickups. or is that not possible. thankyou.

gingataff · « **Reply #6 on:** January 05, 2007, 03:45:31 AM »

Both are possible, having 2 separete splits will give you more flexibility in that you could have both pups on and one is split while the other isn't, but if thast isn't a sound you're likely to use much then just one split is simpler :)