I think he said that just having the second coil without even using it seems to reduce the noise quite a bit. I think Eric Johnson used to use one of Dimarzios noiseless "single-coil" pickups (a stacked humbucker) in coil-split mode. But those pickups are supposedly Reverend-designed and not for sale. My Reverend Guitar (one of the discontinued Danelectro-like models made in the USA) has a decent coil split sound. I had to really lower the pickups on my guitar otherwise they cause a "warbly" sound when you are playing high notes on the high E-string. However, I think they exert too much string pull compared to a normal humbucker. They sound good split, because each coil is a standard single-coil pickup. Rio Grande makes some humbuckers that are really just two of their single-coil pickups combined together: Vintage Tallboy, Halfbreed, Muy Grande. ![]() If you split a hot humbucker, the tone isn't as weak, but it still has the tone of a "hot" pickup, which I really don't care for. It's OK in the neck position, but not in the bridge position. I think most split humbuckers sound too weak and thin.
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