Coil Tapping Active EMG Humbucker Pickups ?

Mudcrutch

Can it be done and if so how easy is it to do?

Danny1969

The 81 and similar are tappable but not the normal ones. The wires coming out of an EMG are from the opamp not the pickup so it needs to be an EMG designed for tap'ing 

WezV

EMG FAQ

HOW DO I WIRE A COIL SPLITTER? A PHASE SWITCH?

The design of EMG active pickups doesn’t allow access to the individual coil outputs from the pickups. As such, it’s not possible to wire coil taps or pickup phase switches in the traditional manner. We do provide a number of alternative accesories to help you simulate some of these tone mods.

To get a split coil sound out of a humbucker we recommend the EMG 89, which contains both a humbucker and single-coil in one pickup switched via an included push/pull pot.

The EMG PI2 Phase Inverter actively inverts the phase of an EMG pickup giving you a true out-of-phase effect, controllable by a switch.

Funkfingers

EMG active pickups are not tappable (or coil splittable, either).

The dual-mode models consist of three coils - two side by side for conventional humbucker mode then, a third coil, stacked below one of the first two for "Strat" mode.

A DPDT format switch governs the interconnection of the various coils for the two modes.

On the older hard-wired examples, it is possible to govern the coil combinations via a multipole Superswitch. The caveat is that this can introduce noise as contacts are made and broken.