They’re different names for different functions! A “coil tap” is where you tap into a lone coil’s winding (usually at half way). Usually this features on Fender-type single-coil pickups. A “Coil split ...

When we shut down one of the coils in a humbucker to produce a single coil tone, the correct term is coil-splitting. A coil-tap is more commonly found in specially-wired single coil pickups. It allows ...

Single-coil pickups are great for country guitar or 60s style pop rock. Conversely, the best humbucker pickups are better-suited for heavy rock, jazz, and blues.

There's a bolt-on maple neck topped by a vintage tint maple fingerboard rocking 22 frets, and custom wound Music Man humbucking and single coil pickups.

Unsatisfied with the limitations of his first proper guitar, Morse took matters into his own hands, a lá Eddie Van Halen ...

The Submarine is essentially a pair of single coil pickups placed together in a shiny metal jacket. There's one pickup each for the bottom E and A strings of an electric or acoustic guitar (or the ...

[Dino Segovis] is at it again! For this week’s installment of his “Hack A Week” series [Dino] is holding a guitar pickup winding 101. Professional guitar pickups can cost hundre… ...

I found myself loving the middle pickup as well, but for different reasons. It's a versatile single coil—not too twangy, not too boomy—perfect for full-bodied chords.