Anyone else a single-coil convert?

[WhoFan]

Re: Anyone else a single-coil convert?

Humbuckers are for me...... love lower noise.... but i still love strat, tele and P90 pickups as well..... and i have guitars with single coils for sure... My stock MIM tele i use a lot with high gain and it is pretty quiet for a single coil....

With Digital modelers i like using single coils more then humbuckers.... at least with my POD i like single coils better.... more sparkel and the Boise Gate works great in the POD..... For blues and Floyd style clean i love my strats thru my Fender amps....

But for my favourite set up is medium output humbuckers thru highgain amps.....

 

[Earwicker]

Re: Anyone else a single-coil convert?

You need both.

Tonally, Soapbars give the best overall sound, but they can be noisy in studio and certain live scenarios, where there's plently of e-mag around.

Single coils have it for clarity and the much vaunted overtones, but sometimes you just need sheer power... oh and the absence of hum!

 

[Jeroen]

Re: Anyone else a single-coil convert?

I like 'em both equally much. But so far I have never heard a humbucker that does a convincing singlecoil tone when split. Therefore I would never call a split humbucker tone a true singlecoil tone. It just doesn't sound anywhere near alike. A good Strat (or even a crappy one - yesterday I heard a guy obtain a really good Strat-tone from a cheap-ass plywood Bogey Strat) kicks any guitar with split humbuckers' ass big time in my opinion.

 

[zionstrat]

Re: Anyone else a single-coil convert?

I love them all but dual blade SCs are what I tend to use more and more because I can get single and humish sounds from the same pup using spin a split-

I'm also heading back to the p90 direction (hopefully noiseless this time)- But this comes and goes with sytle and sound I'm looking for and considerign switchign out the pups on my PRS to see if it brings back more humb love-
Cheers

 

[danglybanger]

Re: Anyone else a single-coil convert?

I finally came to the conclusion that humbuckers are too muddy for me, and found that just about any hb pickup swap still resulted in more mud than I like, and made me sick whenever I couldn't hear any note definition in chords.

I like the articulation of single coils... I also hate the honky, hornlike tone humbuckers have clean.

P90s though are great. Grindy, classic rock and roll. I'd love to have an axe with them someday. Noisy though.

slade

 

[Earwicker]

Re: Anyone else a single-coil convert?

P90s though are great. [...] Noisy though.

That's the fly in the ointment. The best solution to the problem is not to worry about it!