woow i coil tapped my explorer!

[deathmedic]

some of you know i bought a cheap explorer copy some time ago.
i reliced it abit and changed the humbucker to a gfs crusader.

well recently i decided to coiltap it, not been bothered to order good parts off gfs, i used the parts i already had in the guitar.

so bye bye tone pot, hello coil splitting pot :D

after some bad soldering i plugged it in and tested it on a cruncy setup, with the pot all the way up it is now a hi-gain guitar, with it down it's a rock n roll grit machine! :D

i'm quite happy at teh moment, no new pictures

i'll post clips in abit.

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/49386580/

[deathmedic]

coil tap
lo-fi URL: http://www.soundclick.com/util/getplayer.m3u?id=5322270&q=lo
hi-fi URL: http://www.soundclick.com/util/getplayer.m3u?id=5322270&q=hi

[tomac62]

i've always want to do something like that! Sounds cool.

[ModestCargo]

Alright man two criticisms. Constructive in format.

1. Tune your guitar. Please.

2. Whatever you're using for a distortion unit needs to be kicked off the top of a skyscraper.

[Razzy]

Alright man two criticisms. Constructive in format.

1. Tune your guitar. Please.

2. Whatever you're using for a distortion unit needs to be kicked off the top of a skyscraper.

+1,000,000

[FortePenance]

Noffense man, but I'd agree with Cargo too.

Also, noffense again, but that sounded pretty horrid. I never liked split-coil distorted mode, so it might just be me but eh.

[deathmedic]

thanks for your positive comments, i feel i wasted my time doing something like this.
even though i did that stright after i had finnished and recorded it with haste.

it wasn't about the tuneing or the vox ac30 with a tube screamer.
it was about something i was proud of, now i feel like it was pointless because a string may of been half a step off and the i rushed the amp settings..

thanks guys, i really feel i've wasted my time sharing this with you or even doing it in the first place.
I dunno if i'll bother next time.

[Peeb]

Well I, for one, appreciate it, d-medic!! I've never heard a demo of what coil tapping sounds like.

Having heard your demo, I would love to coil tap a bucker!!

It was all good! Gracias.

[Monkeyboy]

Your sample sounds like you have almost exactly the same tone as they used one one of the early pearl jam records. I guess pearl jam should be thrown off a building too ;) I quite liked the tone. The tuning could have been better..... but you've got a cool grungy thing going on there..... and it's SOOOO rare that I like a grunge tone...(probably not since the early PJ stuff ;))... I'd take that as a pretty big compliment.

Just a quick tip for the recording though. You should have explained what pups you were using, and played some on the buckers for us to compare. Eg.... 20seconds of playing with the bridge bucker.... then repeat the same riffs with the bridge bucker in split mode. Then do the same for the neck pup. The clip wasn't hugely useful, because we don't know what your guitar sounded like before, and how the sounds have changed.

[Raycing]

Maybe you guys meant well with your comments but......Now will all those who are responsible for deathmedics depressed mood and for crushing his enthusiasm please raise your hands. Constructive criticism works wonders after a positive comment or two, (especially for a noob.) ala Monkeyboys' comment

Thanks for taking the time to share that with us I'm considering buying and then doing the same thing to a Ibanez that I've have my eye on.

Have you ever noticed that the meaner people in forums are normally younger guys , (in this case all except Tomac62) and the comments made are not the sort of comments that they would not make to your face.
Growing up my stomping grounds were the streets of London and also NYC then I went around the world a few times in the military, so I speak from experience....that skyscraper comment would end in a nasty way the real world. I try to type comments about people that I would say to their face, maybe others should too.

[deathmedic]

it's just one pickup, a GFS Crusader. I don't think they sell them any more.
It's a high output pickup, so I might run it clean so you get a better idea.

[Monkeyboy]

High output pups are generally the best ones for coil splitting, because middle or vintage buckers don't have double the output of a vintage single coil; so when you half their power, you end up with something very weak sounding. A nice high output humbucker will easily have double the power of a decent single coil... so it still sounds nice and meaty when its split.

My ibanez is HSH and came with coil splitting, and I absolutely love it. The picture explains it better than I could.
http://www.jemsite.com/tech/img/t_pu_5w.jpg

The pups are the dimarzio/ibanez ones, and they're similar to super distortions... so pretty high output, but not as high as your crusader. I got to A/B it against my friends 60th anniversary strat the other day, and..... lets just say..... I won't be needing one of those strats any time soon ;)

[ModestCargo]

Well I can understand the negative response I got from my negative comment. It was.. well, negative.

I tell you what though, yes I would have said it to his face. Absolutely. You would find if you met me I am a very honest person.

Dude I don't think you play badly, it's just that to my ear anything sounds bad when it's out of tune, so I can't even begin to comment on tone when the tuning isn't there. It takes about 30 seconds to tune a guitar, so my thinking is why not just get er tuned.

And forgive me if I think it's a bad distortion sound. It's just my opinion.