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    Re: hum or coil for SOLOs?

    humbuckers for rock type stuff and jazz and single coils for blues and country
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    • #3
      Re: hum or coil for SOLOs?

      you can use either, youll just get different tones. i love the twangbanger for solos

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      • #4
        Re: hum or coil for SOLOs?

        Definitely either one - I've been playing rock forever and have always used tele or strat bridge pickups for solos - I love that wiry tone. You can get pretty distorted and fat on a single coil pickup as well.

        I like the crunchy singing humbucker sound as well, but everyone seems to think you need a big fat humbucker sound for solos. Not so.

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        • #5
          Re: hum or coil for SOLOs?

          i agree, some of my favorite lead tones are a low output pup into a cranked up low gain amp

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          • #6
            Re: hum or coil for SOLOs?

            humbucker is sometimes hard to control the output, which is a bad thing
            Fender Strat Special (SH-1n, SSL-1, TB-4)
            Danelectro Fab-tone
            Boss CH-1 Super Chorus
            Digitech Whammy 2
            MXR M-101 PHASE 90
            Dunlop GCB-95 Original Cry Baby Wah

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            • #7
              Re: hum or coil for SOLOs?

              It depends on what tone you want and what you want to do with it. If you have a keyboard player and you want to blend with it, use a humbucker. If you want it to cut through, use a single coil. I've used everything with anything, but for rock & jazz, I prefer humbuckers and for country or clean solos, I like single coils.
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              • #8
                Re: hum or coil for SOLOs?

                yeah, it all depends on how bright you want to be. Single coils have a distinctive sound to them as well, so it really is a matter of taste. You can do almost anything with either type of pup.
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                • Schecter C-1 Classic (Custom8/Jazz)
                • Mayones Duvell 7 Standard (Instrumental SFTY-3/Decomp)
                • G&L Tribute Comanche
                • Godin Stadium 59 (Custom Cajun/'59)
                • Horizon Precision Drive --> Fulltone FB3/FD 2 --> Crybaby From Hell (Fasel) --> Boss BF-2 --> CH-1 --> TC Flashback X4
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