hum or coil for SOLOs?

[kelvin]

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[yes-fan]

Re: hum or coil for SOLOs?

humbuckers for rock type stuff and jazz and single coils for blues and country

[jeremy]

Re: hum or coil for SOLOs?

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

[Maggot]

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.

[jeremy]

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

[kelvin]

Re: hum or coil for SOLOs?

humbucker is sometimes hard to control the output, which is a bad thing

[Hellion]

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.

[Metalman_666]

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.