How To Coil Tap A Humbucker

[@DylanTalksTone]

Here is a link to our humbuckers. dylantalkstone.com/collections/humbuckers

[@rccarsandmusic2641]

I have the bell tapped so far every video is a hit

[@Nursemedic97]

Wow, this is very timely! I bought 4 of those CTS pots from GC then a set of Centerpunches from you and wasn’t 100% sure how to go about wiring the circuit board style switch. I’m going to coil split both pickups, then do the series/parallel and in-phase/out of phase Jimmy Page style controls on my new Troublemaker.

[@STAY-GOLD-VINYL]

Hey D. Many of us appreciate these type of videos. You are creating so many useful and important videos. Thanks Brosef

[@DylanTalksTone]

We make them every Monday.

[@whyis45stillalive]

You can also use a tone pot, to split coils. Doing this allows for the sweep, of the pot, (when activated), to control the “amount” of the split.

[@DylanTalksTone]

I need to do a Spin a split video

[@docsiltanen]

Love the explanation...I've used-push/pulls to split humbuckers before but never really understood how they worked..... thank brother, that was cool !

[@PatrickGeneLeBlancHardy]

Thanks for sharing Dylan 🧠 🎸🎶

[@rlyman5302]

Very interesting stuff. Can you go over series/parallel push pull next?

[@richardpierce7819]

Just wanted to say that DAW made a huge difference in my Les Paul tone and I'm loving it. Now a need a pup for the bridge on my SG it has an Iron Gear Hot Slag on the neck . ( 20k ohm ) very hot pup.

[@whyis45stillalive]

Do you make your humbuckers, with tap lines? I’ve never had a humbucker that was tapped. It would add to the possibilities. Plus the confusion, of having 6 leads. As for humbucker splitting, I’ve always (the last 45 years anyway), put a resistor, (1k neck, 2k bridge), between the switch, and the ground. This allows for some noise canceling when split.

[@kellyseager8163]

Love your videos, Dylan, but I’m confused about something here. For the life of me, I can’t tell where to put the remaining two wires off of a four wire humbucker. You don’t mention those here. I see you have two of them twisted and connected to the mid lug in the P/P array, but that leaves a “hot” wire, and a ground wire. Where would I put the hot wire? Would that go up on the top lugs of the main part of the pot? Also, because of wire restraints, can you ground to the side of the P/P siding, or does it have to be grounded up along the side of the main part of the pot? Thanks for your interesting videos!

[@imanalien2222]

Now that’s a noif!

[@kennyayala6189]

Hi Dylan, two things I wanted to say: 1. I promise I'm not "Um, actually"-ing you saying this, I was just genuinely curious why you went with "How To Coil Tap A Humbucker" as the title instead of "How To Coil Split A Humbucker". I know you've done videos before on the difference, so I wasn't sure if this was a way to get people's attention who don't know what coil-splitting is but have heard of coil-tapping? 2. I really appreciate that fact that you never compromise on quality in your component selection. I'm sure some people will gawk at $10 for a pot and think "I can buy a dozen pots on amazon for that price!" Trust me, as someone who has BOUGHT those pots on Amazon that is NOT going to make your life easier. Instead, be ready to spend a lot of time troubleshooting poor QC parts in your guitar. Get good stuff, and you'll never be dissatisfied. Just about the only reason to buy those cheap pots is if you're prototyping something with the intention of using quality parts later for the final product (even then, though, get the good stuff and you can just re-use it -- saves you $ in the long run).

[@DylanTalksTone]

Thanks man…. Because most people say coil tap even though it’s wrong

[@ChrisShortyAllen]

Hi. Got lost somewhere. How do you preserve the output when the coil is split or tapped? Surely they must lose something.

[@DylanTalksTone]

we have a way.... that's all I will say, but yes, normally that its the case

[@garyrouleau4676]

What’s the difference between coil split and coil tap??

[@DylanTalksTone]

It’s coil splitting but if I put that in the title no one would know what I’m talking about

[@Scott.9]

Dylan, since you cannot bend back the ground lug on the pot, I guess you need to ground the both the switch and the ground lug with a wire to the side of the casing?

[@JustSeby]

Exactly

[@BinaryDad]

I know people use the terms "splitting" and "tapping" interchangeably, when talking about pickups, but it's my understanding that (originally, at least) they were distinct terms. Gordon Smith Guitars, Manchester UK, invented coil-tapping in the 70s (I think) and meant you could take 2 different winding signals from just one pickup. Where as coil spllitting needs 2 pickups. But I might be wrong about this. Anyone know for sure?

[@DylanTalksTone]

This video is coil splitting

[@BinaryDad]

@@DylanTalksTone I know, I just wanted to learn more about tapping and to learn if - sonically - it's different to splitting, which is always sounds a bit meh to me on the guitars I've tried with it.

[@DylanTalksTone]

I need to do that video

[@Hamstray]

@@DylanTalksTone but the wiring of the pots is the same either way?

[@DylanTalksTone]

Yep