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When a typical humbucker is coil split, you are hearing a single coil, just not in the Fender sense.
One way to get around this is partial coil split. Introducing a capacitor in the path to ground only shuts off the second coil of your humbucker down to a pre-determined frequency. This yields a fuller tone and partial noise-cancellation.
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On the other hand, if it’s not and they genuinely are coil taps then they will give exactly a less-hot version of a humbucker. (But I think this is unlikely.)
The reason a split humbucker on a Les Paul doesn’t sound like a Fender-type single coil is firstly because the pickup construction is quite different and you are still getting half a humbucker in terms of the bobbin, coil and magnet - and secondly because the guitar construction is still 100% Les Paul...
As Funkfingers said - counterintuitively, you can actually make them sound more like real single coils by using a capacitor or resistor to split the pickup to slightly more than half. Why this works I’m not totally sure, but it does!
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PRS use the method posted by guitars4you. They even employ different capacitor values for neck and bridge position humbuckers.
Last I checked it was different resistor values
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/89942/caspercaster#latest
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http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/89942/caspercaster#latest
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You still get the low string definition but without the shrillness of the plain strings.
E.g. My Schecter bass has a coil tap and is labeled as such but in the Andertons video for it, Lee totally assumes it must be a split (and there for the pickups must be humbuckers when they're not) and even says how the silly people in the factory just put that tag on when it's wrong.
But it very much is the coil tap it said it is, Anderton just made an assumption that every time something says coil tap it's a misnamed coil split.