Washburn N4 Coil tap tones - Peacemaker Die - Extreme

[HappyOrangeTheBand]

Great tones you are coaxing out of this axe!

[vickersmaster]

does it make a lot of hum when u play in single coil mode? i

[TheHeavensGAMERS]

extrem = what a bad band

but their guitarist is epic :D

[NeckPickup]

I really need to do this to my N4 paduak, but it means replacing both my pickups, and I cannot decide on what to get, thinking to go for a suhr set.

I have the original early 90's one, and either the bill lawerence has gradually gotten worse sounding, or it always sounded like a bag of cocks and I just didnt know any better.

[rokinrandy]

The N4 does have a tone that is easily distinctive from all other guitars.Probably due to the cut away at the heel of the neck..

[charles1967]

That's funny. I just sent my N4 off to have the coil tap push/pull installed. Sounds like it's going to be a good move!  Thanks for posting.

[JPvwvr6]

Love the N4 mod. sounds killer!

[kingsaulthetenth]

FUNKY!!! i'm usually more of a heavy humbucker guy, but i like it tapped better!  thanks alot man!!!!!!!!!!!1

[hansvaneven]

Sounds cool, thanks for the help on this!

[Weazelmania]

Sounds cool, I have a relic which is going through complete strip and rebuild losing the shoddy washburn gear... May consider wiring it like that... It's been a while since I heard it play, you reckon it sounds better than the stock?

[akilkalel]

I've been thinking of getting an N4 paduak, preferably from the first generation. I'm just a little worried it is not as versatile as people pretend. Would you be able to make a video about the range of sounds you get with your N4?

[BlueBuddha]

when you say the first generatin o you mean the 1993 ones?

Padauk N4's are just plain awesome.

The neck pickup is really smooth and the bridge pickup is incredibly powerful. I think the coil tap is vital to add to the versatility. Fair enough it doesn't have a Tone pot so i guess thats its downfall.

If you can afford one, buy it, you won't lose money so if you don't get along with it just sell it on!

[akilkalel]

Yeh I meant one from 91 to 93. But they're tough to find, I fear I might have to settle.

I mos def wanna do your coil tap. Currently my main concern is that its quite a bit money and I don't just wanna play Nuno. Everything I hear online sounds like Nuno. I maybe hit up some classic rock (Page, Blackmore, Angus Young, etc). I know I can do some VH and Vai, but I don't play much of that. Do you feel you can get a classic rock sound out of ur N4?

[moesbarr]

if you dont want the nuno sound then just whip out the bill lawrence, as that pickup has a defying sound.changing that pickup to say a seymour duncan will give you a lot more (middle of the road) sound yr after/need. bare in mind padauk isnt a million miles away from the tonality of maple, very sharp/high pitched sounding, and the bill lawrence usa pup defo doesnt help matters here.

nice riffing again matt ;-)

[GlitchMasterz]

Give Tommey Emmanual a shot should sound classy if you can learn say classical gas but with an N4 tange to it. But depends how good you are at learning his stuff >.>

[Beatsmith2005]

the n4 is VERY versatile when it's coil tapped. the only thing it can't do is the full on 'jazz sound'.

[MrJonezy79]

@BlueBuddha hi loved the tone you have. and nice playing dude.. i got an n4 paduak too and getting it coil tapped.. can i please ask, what amp are you using?? you got a nice smooth overdrive sound there! sounds like a boogie??? thanks

[akilkalel]

Is that padauk?

[BlueBuddha]

yup

[DenPetroff]

Nice playing!

[BlueBuddha]

thanks very much :)

[dukeofearl808]

if you had a cheap N2 like me you wouldn't have had to do all that faffing around with coil tapping hahaha but seriously nice comparisons mate you can hear the difference

[BlueBuddha]

lol yea, this is semi true, but the N2 uses inner coils anyway.... :D