Author Topic: Coil tapped MQ? How does it work? (Read 2113 times)

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?

Philly Q · « **Reply #1 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.

CaffeineJunkie · « **Reply #2 on:** September 06, 2006, 02:17:40 PM »

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

Twinfan · « **Reply #3 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)?