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I have had several coil tapped guitars. Basically, two wires are
wrapped around the magnetic posts, one less wraps than the other. This
basically gives two different impedances for the pickup. It's an
attempt to add a single coil type of tone to a humbucker. It kind of
sort of gives you an effect like the thin switch on a Jag. When
dealing with good coil tapped pickups, I have appreciated the feature.
I've had them on schecter and modified PRS guitars. I had some Barden
Two-Tone pickups that were coil tapped that were virtually
indistinguishable from his single coil strat pickups. I found I was
using the coil taps all the time and asked myself--why not just get a
guitar with single coils? I personally prefer the tone of the JM
pickups, or the P90 soapbars. I never like the tone of heavy
humbuckers, so I now see coil taps as pretty much a form of
versatility I no longer have any use for. I never play any type of
music that requires humbuckers. Twang is my thang...
--- In , "Ian" <skatilite_of_love@h...>
wrote:
> Has any one acutaly played a guitar with this feature? I you have
> did you like it?
