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Topic: Cap toil switch? |
Billy Carr
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Seminary, Mississippi, USA (deceased)
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Posted 21 May 2011 1:37 pm |
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| Even though I'm in my 40th year playing PSG, there's still things I'm not familiar with, sometimes. Here's one called, Sho-Bud cap toil switch. What does this do? How is it placed on a guitar? Would this be one of the switches located on the right endplate of the older Bud's? |
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Jack Stoner
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Kansas City, MO
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Posted 21 May 2011 1:44 pm
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| I've been in electronics since 1955 and I've never heard or seen that term, if it's referring to the tone pot or switch. |
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Whip Lashaway
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Monterey, Tenn, USA
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Posted 21 May 2011 1:57 pm
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It could be "Tap Coil" and would make more sense. That would be for tapping a coil at a different spot and chaging the inductance or time constance of a circuit.
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Dave Grafe
From:
Hudson River Valley NY
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Posted 21 May 2011 6:52 pm
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| Yes, some ShoBud models featured a "coil tap switch" that changed the pickup winding configuration i.e. pickup impedance. |
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Peter Harris
From:
South Australia, Australia
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Posted 22 May 2011 4:15 am
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Coil tapping is just basically accessing one of the individual coils in a humbucker pickup.....as a consequence, the impedance changes......in other words, you change your dual-coil pickup into a single-coil one..
Common (humbucker) Stratocaster-speak.....  ..although that is in reality coil 'splitting'
...the jury is out on whether 'splitting' or 'tapping' is actually the same thing...it really depends on what you are trying to achieve....'tapping' is REALLY tapping into the existing windings at an intermediate point and (yes!) as a result changing the impedance of said winding of (it can be) a single-pole pickup....'tonal response' will then obviously change ... whether you like the result is then up to the user..
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Tom Wolverton
From:
Carpinteria, CA
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Posted 22 May 2011 6:19 am
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On a Sho-Bud, I believe it is a single coil PU and the coil tap gives you the option of using all the windings on the coil, or only part of the windings. So you can run the PU at (for example) 17k ohms or flip the switch and run it at 11k ohms.
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James Morehead
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Prague, Oklahoma, USA - R.I.P.
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Posted 22 May 2011 6:51 am Re: Cap toil switch?
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| Billy Carr wrote: |
| Here's one called, Sho-Bud cap toil switch. |
Do you mean coil tap?
If you look at some of the older D10 shobuds, like the Professional and Pro II, yes, at the changer endplate you will find two small switches, one switch meant for one neck, whose purpose is to "tap in" on the single coil pickup, as Tom W., Dave G. and others describe. S10s of that era, of course, needed only one small switch. In the old days, "dual coil" was the term commonly used. ZB's had triple coils. It just gives you a little tonal variance with the use of a single pickup.
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