To turn or not to turn the pickups on tapped neck HBs...

Peacemaker

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One of my PRSs came new with the screw poles of both pickups oriented toward the bridge. I read somewhere that on the neck pickup, this would place the live single coil closer to the neck when the pickup is tapped. If you've done this, what's your experience? Are you considering it? I did the same turn to my other PRSs and there seems to be a mildly more quacky single coil sound that I like. But I could be imagining it...because...

On an old Ibanez AH-20, I had installed a coil tap switch in like 1987, when I was totally unqualified to anything of the sort. For years, I had been telling myself that flipping the switch changed the tone *a little*. When I reconditioned the whole guitar a few years ago, I saw that I'd disconnected that switch decades ago 🤣. ...That's why I am asking you all for your experience, thoughts.


 
As legend goes it started with Wes Montgomery, then Peter Green . The Special semi has a flipped neck . Personally , I'd rather make the bridge a bit warmer so I'd flip that one...
 
As legend goes it started with Wes Montgomery, then Peter Green . The Special semi has a flipped neck . Personally , I'd rather make the bridge a bit warmer so I'd flip that one...
I might try that!
 
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