I caaaaant deciide.. building a tele and i cant figure out whether i should go with a neck humbucker or a bridge one. either way, its going to be coil tapped. or should i go with H-H and tap both? gah. also, someone explain to me how coil tapping would work on that w/ pushpull pots. im too tired to google. aanyway. list pros and cons of neck and bridge?
You could go for twin coil-split humbuckers and use a 5-position blade-switch/knob instead of push pull pots... that way u can have the following pickup options: 1. Neck Humbucker 2. Neck single-coil nearer to fretboard + Bridge single-coil nearer to the bridge (outer 2 coils) 3. Neck Humbucker + Bridge Humbucker 4. Neck single-coil nearer to bridge + Bridge single-coil nearer to the fretboard (inner 2 coils) 5. Bridge Humbucker I was planning to do this on my Ibanez RG, and I read a lot of forums where they recommend this configuration. In position 2, the pickups give a very tele kinda jangly tone while in pos 4, it gives a bluesy strat tone. I don't know if it will work on a Tele cos people aren't usually looking for a lotta thick humbucker tones from a tele, so you might want some single coil options also.. BTW, in the above config, always atleast 2 coils r in use n hence they will be humbucking in all positions, unlike coil tapping..
hmm yeah, i actually got two push pull pots and a three way selector, so i think il go with the coil tapped double 'buckers.. im guessing il lose the tele bridge twang then right?
oh, and, i need more help. where can i find out what distance from the nut different guitars have their pickups?
check this link out... hope its wat u r lookin for... https://www.geocities.jp/dgb_studio/index_e.htm in the index on the right, go to pickups-> Pickup Position(Guitar)
