I have three guitars with conventional humbuckers on them, and which I don't want to change the pickups on just yet- I'd like to find ways of making them more versatile first. I recently read about "Partial coil-tap" of a PAF type humbucker which involved putting a resistor in the path to ground so that not all of the tapped coil goes to ground, some of it is retained depending on the resistor's value. The guy who was describing this said he'd got some convincing strat tones from a neck humbucker (on a PRS I think) this way, but said it was necessary to try different resistor values to see what works best. This sounded a lot more interesting to me than the normal coil-tap that I have on these guitars- but then I re-read the main Q-filter thread here.... and I realised that the Q-filter *probably* accomplishes the same thing as a "partial coil-tap" but in a more versatile and controllable way.
It looks like I'd probably do better by just using Q-filters on these guitars. My electronic knowledge is not much but I get the impression a partial coil-tap on a PAF-style humbucker would do no more than (pretty much) what I'd get with one position of the tone control with a Q-filter installed. Can anyone who understands these things better confirm or deny this for me? TIA for any help with this.....
R
It looks like I'd probably do better by just using Q-filters on these guitars. My electronic knowledge is not much but I get the impression a partial coil-tap on a PAF-style humbucker would do no more than (pretty much) what I'd get with one position of the tone control with a Q-filter installed. Can anyone who understands these things better confirm or deny this for me? TIA for any help with this.....
R
