Pickups

[Josef]

Can this pickup be coil tapped?

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/g=guitar/search/detail/base_pid/300015/

[Taller]

The noted '4 conductor cable' would indicate that it is splittable, but you may want to check out the S-D site.

[Josef]

that was actually a better question, does 4 conductor cable always indicate that it can be split?

[JingleJungle]

You may actually split a 4 conductor humbucker - but having said that, I'm not sure it would sound "nice" or useable.
I had a pair of DiMarzios (DP196 and 197) in a Melancon which were absolutely useless when split...
But, YMMV, etc...

JJ

[Josef]

ok whats a good splittable tele bridge pup?

[JingleJungle]

Splittable TELE BRIDGE pickup??
Do I understand correctly?
Do you mean you wish to install a humbucker in a Tele and be able to split it?

JJ

[dazco]

Lets clear something up.....

coil tap: where a SINGLE coil has 3 conductors......at one end of the wrap a wire to be used as ground, then one at some point BEFORE the end of the wrap, then one at the end of the wrap. So you can select 2 different amounts of wrap for 2 different outputs. Say for example, a 5k tap, and a 8k tap. So you have a SC that can be switched from a low vintage output to a very hot one.

Split: a double coil pup that when SPLIT grounds one coil out so you're left with one, giving you a SOMEWHAT SC type sound.

I realize most know this, but i see the phrase "coil tap" used so often to describe splitting i just had to describe the 2.

[Josef]

thanks for the info Dazco

The correct term I want to use is split...so I would like a humbucker in the bridge position (would be nice if it were tele bridge size, single coil size) that I can split to a single coil

[dazco]

I've never found a SC sized hummer that sounded good when split. But then i never found one i liked period. But as full sized ones go, as leonc said elsewhere, the andersons split pretty nicly. The H-2 being the one i have. Still not a great SC sound to my ear but better than most. One reason most hummers don't sound totally SC-like when split is because even when you split a humbucker and one coil is electronically no longer in circuit and doesn't affect the tone at all, the polepieces for the non-working coil are still picking up some string vibration because they are attached to the same magnet as the working coil.

[Josef]

right,
that makes sense. My goal is to use the HB most of the time, but have the option for SC style sound (I am not typically a SC player, mostly HB...)

So I just need it to be "close"

[r9player]

there are none in lipstick size.
Humbuck type I can only think of let's see
DiMarzio Fast track style (these are blades I think they can be split)
Seymour Lil '59 (although someone said these aren't very good)
maybe a screaming deamon?

[Josef]

the lil 59 is a good over all pickup for Humbucker sounds aren't they?