So do you guys like em or not? I thought about a hsh setup on a strat or hhs but the more i think about it the more i hate it. I get really annoyed by the volume and pot value mismatch. Tho i think thats an artifact from my direct into soundcard days. Mostly just bored and wanna discuss some shit
Re: Guitars that has over 9000 coil tap options
Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2021 9:01 am
by repoman
Everytime I've bought a guitar with weird switching that I think I'd like I just wind up using normal bridge, middle and neck. The only extras I've ever liked where the mudswitch thing on Gretsches and the Filter knob on Reverends.
Re: Guitars that has over 9000 coil tap options
Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2021 9:41 am
by qersty
repoman wrote:Everytime I've bought a guitar with weird switching that I think I'd like I just wind up using normal bridge, middle and neck. The only extras I've ever liked where the mudswitch thing on Gretsches and the Filter knob on Reverends.
Like that switch on a jaguar, yeah? I agree on that. Cutting bass is always a nice option to have. I've kinda been imagining that a phase switch on a gibson guitar with the wiring that makes the tone knobs work separately would be cool in that sense. Never had a guitar wired like that though but I think having the pickups out of phase and blend them together for high cut would be cool
Edit: Like this
Re: Guitars that has over 9000 coil tap options
Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2021 2:07 pm
by the_bright_undead
I had a PRS in the early 2000s that had a weird rotary pickup selector and some kind of coil tapping thing with a push/pull pot. I couldn’t stand it, I played my $400 Ibanez Artstar more often because I really didn’t like the sound of the pickups in the PRS no matter how I switched them….maybe a just didn’t know what I was doing then but I never regretted selling it to buy a strat.
I would totally get a Peavey T60 though if one came my way and I had the cash.
Re: Guitars that has over 9000 coil tap options
Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2021 2:29 pm
by Blackened Soul
qersty wrote:So do you guys like em or not?
Meh.. They are fun to fiddle with but I always found I'd spend more time messing with the extra crud than just playing.. I like 1 pickup best, more time focussing on what you are suppose to be doing
Re: Guitars that has over 9000 coil tap options
Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2021 3:00 pm
by goroth
All my guitars have only one pickup. I’ll probably end up with at least one guitar that is just straight to the output jack. My bass has a p and a j pickup, but I got rid of the tone pot. All treble all the time.
Re: Guitars that has over 9000 coil tap options
Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2021 12:24 pm
by ibarakishi
goroth wrote:All treble all the time.
Re: Guitars that has over 9000 coil tap options
Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2021 4:00 pm
by coldbrightsunlight
I also prefer not to have them. I might try wiring up coil taps on a guitar some day but I suspect what I'd do is just whittle it down to 2 or 3 cool settings. Too much variation on a guitar just gets in the way of playing for me.
Being really picky about single coils I find that coil tapped 'buckers never sound that good to me. Also hate when hum cuts in and drops out between switching positions on one guitar, so tend to stick to wiring configs that produce a consistent noise level.
I've gotten better mileage out of experimenting with cap and pot values so that rolling off tone/volume produces more usable sounds. Also a fan of bass cut switches on some guitars.
Re: Guitars that has over 9000 coil tap options
Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2021 10:03 pm
by Blackened Soul
You mean coil cut. Coil tap is where in a single coil the is a tap in the coil about halfway of so so you can basically switch the amount of windings.
(also, double postin' this to the hack job thread. )
Re: Guitars that has over 9000 coil tap options
Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2021 11:59 am
by qersty
ibarakishi wrote:
goroth wrote:All treble all the time.
but then how do you riddim?
Re: Guitars that has over 9000 coil tap options
Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2021 7:25 pm
by repoman
qersty wrote:
repoman wrote:Everytime I've bought a guitar with weird switching that I think I'd like I just wind up using normal bridge, middle and neck. The only extras I've ever liked where the mudswitch thing on Gretsches and the Filter knob on Reverends.
Like that switch on a jaguar, yeah? I agree on that. Cutting bass is always a nice option to have. I've kinda been imagining that a phase switch on a gibson guitar with the wiring that makes the tone knobs work separately would be cool in that sense. Never had a guitar wired like that though but I think having the pickups out of phase and blend them together for high cut would be cool
Edit: Like this
I think I was thinking about this same thing too, maybe? I was thinking if it was possible to have a sliding potentiometer that would gradually cross the wires so they would be backwards at the end to blend in phase/out of phase...? Is that even possible?
Re: Guitars that has over 9000 coil tap options
Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2021 7:27 pm
by repoman
goroth wrote:All my guitars have only one pickup. I’ll probably end up with at least one guitar that is just straight to the output jack. My bass has a p and a j pickup, but I got rid of the tone pot. All treble all the time.
This makes the most sense desu.
I did make an Esquire once that had the "blower switch" where it would be pickup straight to input jack, that was pretty neat.
Should make the most brutal guitar ever that is just pickup to jack, and use the most powerful pickup ever made. I saw some video of a dude that wound a humbucker to like 50k (maybe it was 50k winds) and it made a small amp set really really clean sound like 5 big muffs in a row. I've found a way to make a pickup even more brutal using neodynium magnets in a Halbach array. I wonder if its possible to damage an amp with something like that?
Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2021 7:21 am
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