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What does the knob do??

Tom-eg · 2008-09-14 15:29:25

I have an electric guitar and one of the two knob controls pulls out a bit. It gives it a crispier tone. What exactly is it doing? Is it one of those knobs that switches the humbuckers into single coil and if so how does it do it?

14-09-2008 4:29pm

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Tom-eg

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I have an electric guitar and one of the two knob controls pulls out a bit. It gives it a crispier tone. What exactly is it doing? Is it one of those knobs that switches the humbuckers into single coil and if so how does it do it?

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#2 14-09-2008 6:24pm

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The pickup(s) would have 4 conductor wires rather than the regular 2. This means that there's two sets of leads. Hot and ground for each coil, whereas normally you would have just a hot and ground for the entire pickup.

When you tap it, only one of the coils is being used which gives a more singlecoil like sound.

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