{"id":1753,"date":"2025-04-14T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T16:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leguitovore.com\/?post_type=video&p=1753"},"modified":"2025-05-18T20:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T00:33:07","slug":"how-to-install-a-split-coil-and-get-the-best-of-both-worlds","status":"publish","type":"video","link":"https:\/\/leguitovore.com\/en\/video\/comment-installer-un-coil-split-et-obtenir-le-meilleur-des-deux-mondes\/","title":{"rendered":"How to install a split coil and get the best of both worlds!"},"content":{"rendered":"

How to Install a Coil Split on a Guitar with Humbuckers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Humbucker pickups are powerful and quiet, but sometimes you want the brighter, snappier, and more dynamic sound of a single coil. What if you could have both, without swapping pickups?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this video I activate the function coil-split<\/strong> on my guitar equipped with the Ultramarines of Guss Pickups<\/a><\/strong>. These microphones were kindly sent to me by Gurvan Tona<\/a>l, and they allow precisely this transformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you missed the train, you can read about it first on theinstalling these pickups on my guitar<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\ud83d\udd27 What is a coil split?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A humbucker is two coils working together: one for each magnetic polarity (north and south), and with opposite winding directions. The result: the signal adds together, but the electrical noise cancels out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When we make a coil split<\/strong>, one of the two coils is deactivated. We therefore lose noise cancellation, the output level decreases, but the sound becomes clearer, more defined and more dynamic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The sound becomes more hollow, close to a single coil, without having to change the pickup.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\ud83e\uddf2 Pay attention to polarities and windings<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If you want to use two split mics together (like in the middle position), you need to make sure that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • The remaining coils are of opposite polarity (north\/south).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • The windings are reversed (to continue to cancel noise).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

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    In my case, Gurvan advised me:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    • Bridge pickup:<\/strong> keep the north coil (with the inner fixed poles).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Neck pickup:<\/strong> keep the south coil (with the adjustable poles), reversing the position of the pickup to bring it closer to the neck.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

      \ud83d\udee0\ufe0f Installing the split coil<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

      I had already installed a push-pull potentiometer; all that remained was to wire it correctly. The push-pull switch is a double DPDT (2-pole, 2-position) switch with six contacts. The two contacts identified by a "C" are the common points.<\/p>\n\n\n

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