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.

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 ...

This, along with the correct guitar tone (single-coil pickups are great) will give you that classic surf sound. Let’s start as simply as possible, going in sequence (fingers 1, 2, 3 and 4) using ...

[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.