This was activated by pulling out the volume knob, which in the 83 models was a nice chunky speed knob with notched edges. When coil tapped, MMK45’s drop the bass coil, and the remaining treble coil is more like a tele neck pickup- strong and sweet.īy using humbuckers that would coil tap this way, the H-S-H plan spanned a tonal range including those traditionally held by tele and LP players. The effect was akin to upgrading from a single stereo speaker to a woofer and tweeter- both ends were better represented. One coil was wound for rich high frequencies, the other for lower response. The new MMK45 pickups that were included in all the Electra Phoenix had a pair of coils with different cores, magnets, and windings.
Normal humbuckers have a pair of equal coils, and coil tapping one out leaves a single remaining coil that isn’t very much like the rich overtones of a strat or tele single coil, it’s just thin.
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The full potential of the H-S-H was also made possible by innovative unbalanced coil pickups that Tom had developed in concert with Matsumoku technicians. Best of all, the controls were intuitive, allowing the guitarist to merely twiddle or to very deliberately shape a tone. It combined the best of different kinds of pickups to produce a remarkably versatile sound. The X185 marked the debut of Tom Presley’s H-S-H wiring plan, the result of his work in the 60’s on experimental wiring.
These cool guitars are highly sought after from the famous Matsumoku factory in Japan and also for their awesome Magnaflux pick ups.īolt neck double cutaway with maple body, maple neck, ebonyfingerboard, black hardware, graphite nut and tekglide (vintage style) bridge, two humbuckers, one single-coil pickup with three pull-switch knobs (V-T-T) for coil tap, fat (center on) and phase and 3-way selector switch. Each knob pulls up for additional features ( see below text for details ). They have a Humbucker-Single Coil-Humbucker pick-up configuration with a three way switch. New set of 9 guage strings for great bending action!Įlectra Westone Phoenix guitars are a super strat style made in Japan guitars, known for quality and value. All we did was clean it up, sent it to Jeff the Tech to set up with new strings and added the shown newer Hard Shell case that fits it great! Jeff set this guitar up with awesome low action that practically plays itself. We thoughly cleaned it up to reveal this cool color and really no damage at all besides some superficial dings and such. The guitar came to us in horrible condition. This beauty looks to have some green in it but is supposed to be a gray shade. A really cool and awesome sounding and playing 1984 Electra Westone Phoenix X185GR… GR we understand stands for graphite.
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