Coil Tapping vs Coil Splitting: Explained & Demo’d

Coil Tapping vs Coil Splitting: Explained & Demo’d

“Coil tapping” is only something that can be done to single coil pickups that have been built with a tap: when winding, the coil can be tied off at one point (tap) then continued to wind to the full output and then the guitar can be wired to access each output. “Coil splitting” is turning one coil off of a humbucker that’s built with four conductor wire.

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Alternate Dimension neck P90 and Alternate Dimension VLO XFR humbucker with 250k Bourns push/pull pots played with Curt Mangan Strings. Run directly into a Bugera V5 guitar amp used as a head to power an early 1990s Peavey 4X12, mic’d with a Shure SM57 through a Focusrite Scarlett Solo into my iPhone 12 MAX PRO and edited in iMovie. No additional equipment, filtering, or effects were used.

Alternate Dimension P90
Neck — 7.2k - alnicos II & III
Alternate Dimension VLO XFR humbucker
Bridge — 3.9k - alnico V

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