Can you coil tap a Squier Bullet Mustang? (a peek under the hood)
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2017
- Ryan opens up his Bullet Mustang to see if the stock humbuckers are coil tap friendly. He also checks out the route job and wonders what the wood looks like under the finish.
Squier Bullet Mustang HH - www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...
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I think that shielding paint "flaw" was on purpose to ground the control plate.
AH! that makes sense
Yep, that was conductive paint, so it needed to make a connection to the metal plate.
It's not actually shielding paint. It's just black paint. I tested it in mine and it's not conductive.
These are great guitars. The most fun guitar I have. I put a kill switch on mine
well this was an adventure. thanks for investigating my suggestion 👌
Mine is kind of like yours in that the shielding paint doesn't go all the way up the sides so I had to fix that then shield the back of the pickguard. I widened the nut slots for heavier strings. It stays in tune pretty well.
I've had my bullet mustang for almost 5 or 4 years now and it's been my go to for a while put a seymour duncan sh5 in the bridge and removed the neck pickup, re wired my tone knob to be a spin a split these are very fun to mod.
I have this guitar and I love it it is really light and has a really fast neck the pickups are not bad at all. Kind of having an issue with the tuners but other than that it is unbelievably low priced and plays great great video
Thanks man, you saved me time and money!
I was talking about having this done to my mustang HH, (coil split, not tap). The pickups are two wire, so they need two more leads.
Great channel. Subbed💪🏻. Just picked up that guitar in white. Love it already
You just gotta dig a little deeper to get to the wire that connects the 2 coils of the humbucker. I've turned several cheaper 2 wire buckers into 3 or 4 wire pups.
I wish not to lose anonymity. Interesting, you think the other wires are hiding in there?
Most likely, yes. Really small wires hidden by the outer cloth tape that goes around the pickup. Or maybe tucked up under the edges where the bobbins meet the base plate. You can always wait untill you replace that one to take it down further if you're concerned it may not be something you can do. The wires are tiny and short, so not much room for error. Maybe not a mod I'd suggest if you need that pickup to function, but definitely one I'd recommend trying if you plan on replacing anyway. The way I figure it, I'd rather have knowledge of how something works, since even the cheap stuff works on the same principle as the expensive stuff, than the $10 or so I could maybe get for an inexpensive used stock pickup.
It's 'easy' to get the wires if you are patient and are good at soldering (the bobbin wires are small/thin and some fiddling). Unwrap the pickup black tape around both bobbins will uncover the wire ends, separate out and put on additional wirings, and wrap back up. Be careful not to nick the bobbin 42ga wires themselves. Get those wires out and then home free to add switching. I'd split the neck pickup into two single coils, leave the bridge as a humbucker, put a 5-way on there for an HSS Strat setup for two singles and quack. Or use a push/pull tone pot to put both pickups in single coil mode.
Agreed. Lots of videos on how to do this. ua-cam.com/video/qjW6MjJTW-I/v-deo.html
@@60CycleHumcast YES!! there is a Video that shows HOW to do it.. IF.. you are a bit handy ! I have 2 of these, one, I replaced the HB's with mean 90 P90s.. THOSE HB's... im' going to split, then install in the other one.
You can split the coils in these humbuckers. You have to remove the individual coils to get to the wires. But can be done easily ☺
Came here to say that as well. Pretty easy if one is already thinking if wiring a switch.
High value = bang for the buck. : )
Awesome, man. I'm from Mexico and I owe this exact model and I'm thinking about buying a Les Paul SL but I'm not pretty sure it will get to my city. But it would be fantastic to compare the two of them.
I have this guitar almost three years now, and it started buzzing. Everytime I hit the strings while playing a riff, I hear some kind of static noise, also in the recording it is possible to hear that the sound starts loosing power. Do you know the cause?
Thinking a JB in the bridge and coil tap could make this a bit of a sleeper geet?
The wood is bassword according to the specs on Fenders site.
If you coil tap/split this... Wouldn't it then be a Duo-Sonic? I've never thought these are very "Mustagy" anyway (doesn't have the different switches, HH instead of SS), so tapping/splitting seems like a cool idea here.
Technically you can coil split (tapping is something else) with only 3 wires from the pickup. 4 is necessary for parallel coils in a humbucker though.
I bought this guitar and i want to turn it into a regular mustang with all the switches and single coils...does anyone know where i can find a wiring diagram to do this ?
Mr. Burns on the internet. I know that's a really specific answer but that's exactly where you'd find it. Just look up mustang wiring harness and you should find one.
Can you take the knobs off that guitar easily? Cause I just purchased the guitar and the volume knob is very wiggly and it does a whole 360
Hmm...that sounds unusual. It's possible that the set screw on the knob came loose and is allowing the knob to spin fairly freely on the pot. I would start with checking that.
so get 2 used 4-wire humbuckers (from GFS originally) and coil split each pickup with the 2 pots switched to push/pull type. ...and 'low value' is not the same as low price. Gibsons with big prices are sometimes mediocre.
I'm an acoustic guitar guy so electric is an animal that I'm just beginning to work with. I purchased one of these a couple of weeks ago. Over all I really like this guitar. There is only one problem. A couple of days ago I noticed that for some reason the tone control isn't changing the tone for either pickup. What could be the problem?
Chuck Vaughn one of the wires to the tone pot could have become disconnected or might have a cold solder. If you are curious to take a look under the hood don’t be afraid. Electric guitar wiring is fairly fun and forgiving to work with.
So technically since the routing doesn't seem all that limiting, it would be possible to put in there two single coils like with the new offset?
there should be plenty of room for single coils.
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I've had this guitar for around 4 months now and I've never opened it up but the volume pot is really loose and spins around freely in the housing any ideas on how to fix it?
take the knob off and tighten down the nut around the shaft with a wrench. its an easy fix. Hold the shaft in place while you do it.
60 Cycle Hum I'll try that thanks
Just take off the tape around the pickups and disconnect the two wires that are connected, then just extend those wires
You can coil split these pickups but it's a little bit complicated. If you want to get a step-by-step guide on how to do it, feel free to send me an email. I've been able to turn a 2-wire pickup into a 4-wire pickup and works fine!
My brother went to USA and bought the Bullet Mustang, but i wanted a VM Mustang. He doesn't understang about guitars and got the wrong Mustang. I was pretty sad, but watching your videos and some reviews i saw that Bullet Mustang i'ts very good!
I was worried about the construction of it, but seems to be well done.
I'll upgrade the guitar with a JB Seymour Duncan in the bridge position. =)
You discovered if it's made of plywood?
Thanks for helping. =)
Thiago Monteiro Martins It’s basswood, not plywood.
Thanks for answering! =)
Did u ever change the tuners or were they alright?
I've had mine for about 4 months and haven't changed them they hold a tuning pretty well
Body is brasswood ... found that on the squier website
Ryan ... "peek" 😉
Don't be piqued ... 😳
good catch, lol.
I wanted to hear your rambling while you were unscrewing the pickguard :(
i saved you 10 minutes of nonsense by editing it, trust me, I didn't say anything interesting or useful.
Coil tapping and coil splitting are 2 different things. You keep interchanging them. Splitting is what you are talking about, switching to turn off 1 of the 2 coils. Tapping means having 1 coil and you turn off some of the windings.
i know i know, i always mix up the terms. its bad.
@@60CycleHumcast lol, if that's the worst thing you did all day I bet it will all be ok!
That's not rough finish it's shielding paint it's brought over the edge like that so it grounds to the control plate
Chris Barnes someone doesn't know how to watch a whole video without commenting...
lol
Tyler J Morton I watched the hole video I was commenting on where he said there was a finish flaw and why it came over onto the paint worry about yourself hero
Yes, the coils can be split. Removing one layer of the wrap around the humbuckers reveals that they are 4 wire humbuckers. See this video: ua-cam.com/video/pleLrbzwDIY/v-deo.html
interesting
Seems the term you're looking for is coil split (4 conductor HB's) not coil tap. Tap is when you actually go in to the coil itself and redirect a portion of a the coil normally done on single coil pup's. Very complicated as well. PLAY LOUD FELLAS!
This always irks me too, but at this point the terms seem to have become interchangeable
If the humbucker has 3 wires and passive it is splittable. Because one is for grounding and the other 2 are for each coil. If it has 3 wires and active you can’t split it. One is for battery one is for grounding and the other one is for both of the coils
also it’s coil split not coil tap.
when are you going to strip the guitar off ?? i' m curious
maybe next week, i keep putting it off because i like using the guitar and refinishing it will take it out of commission for awhile.
60 Cycle Hum I get it. ..let us know ! ;) thx
You don't need to strip that nice paint job to see what the body is made of just unscrew the neck the pocket should be enough to tell.
don't ruin my fun!
I think that it's pretty obvious that the guitar is indeed a solid piece of basswood, as otherwise this thing would weigh about the same as a les paul and have absolutely no resonance whatsoever.
coil split or coil tap? not the same thing!
i knew someone was going to nail me on this.
it's okay, I forgive you. :p
when are you gonna do the epiphone review
Elijah Misner according to the other video I think it's going to be in September
its supposed to ship in September, thats all i know.
a shame that all the pole pieces are slugs, cos is one of the coils had screws instead of slugs one could remove the screws and make the humbuckers into a permanent coil split humbucker.
Standard tiny pots and tiny gauge wiring for cheapo guitars. I'd replace all that junk. Still nice for the price.
Thomas Kirby I've seen worse, but yeah, I'll eventually be gutting this thing.
Trying to work out why this video happened. The answer was always no!!
Remember that coil tapping is not the same as coil splitting. Two different things. To split the coils you have to do just that. Take the humbucker apart and alter the wiring there.
Super disappointed... The other two wires are UNDER the "ribbon" material wrapped around the bobbins... These CAN be coil tapped, if you'd been bothered to REALLY look...
You can’t tap a humbucker you can only split a humbucker
Neck pocket the shielding is total garbage they have been over doing it for years now since I bought a cyclone years ago
Shitty 250k pots in it have to go immideately.