Benefit to single humbucker guitars

[Progbusters]

Re: Benefit to single humbucker guitars

I see that said a lot about single pickup guitars,

Yeah probably psychological, or perhaps someone should do a shoot out. Take a double hum guitar, record the bridge, then take out the neck and record again.

 

[phred]

Re: Benefit to single humbucker guitars

I've been looking for a simple single humbucker strat type guitar. I love the way they look, and I love the simplicity, I just don't know if there are any benefits to having one. Also, what would be a good price for one?

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Do you find yourself using the same pup all the time? If the music you play can be covered by the same pup, do it!

 

[PushedCrayon]

Re: Benefit to single humbucker guitars

I rarely ever use a neck pup, I rely mostly on my bridge. I really like the way single humbucker's are set up, for example Tom Delonge's old strat. I love the simplicity

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[GuitarStv]

Re: Benefit to single humbucker guitars

My neck pickup gets about 80% of usage in most guitars. I could live with a proper single pickup guitar:

 

[Ashurbanipal]

Re: Benefit to single humbucker guitars

The magnetic pull thing is more prominent, I think, with single coils, where the poles themselves are magnets. In a pup like a humbucker or P90, the effect is reduced because the magnets are underneath.

I like 'em; more versatile than you'd think, especially with a lower output pup.

 

[Dr. Vegetable]

Re: Benefit to single humbucker guitars

I have strats with A2s and strats with quarter inch alnico and ceramic bars. The compression qualities of the hotter pickups with stronger magnets stomps all over what little natural acoustic sustain might be won from weaker A2s. So I wouldn't choose a single pickup guitar just for the benefit of less magnetic pull alone.

Have you ever actually played a single-pickup guitar? Because you sound like you're just talking out your butt.

 

[kramersteen]

Re: Benefit to single humbucker guitars

Thats so butt^^

 

[DreX]

Re: Benefit to single humbucker guitars

Have you ever actually played a single-pickup guitar?

Yes, of course.

 

[Dr. Vegetable]

Re: Benefit to single humbucker guitars

Yes, of course.

...and you're still talking about string pull? Have you no soul?

 

[DreX]

Re: Benefit to single humbucker guitars

...and you're still talking about string pull?

No... this thread is like a week old.

Have you no soul?

off topic

 

[Dr. Vegetable]

Re: Benefit to single humbucker guitars

No... this thread is like a week old.

Ah, the facts are completely out of date then. What's your story today?

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It is off-topic to talk about what is on- or off-topic in here. Please take this to The Sound Room.

 

[frankfalbo]

Re: Benefit to single humbucker guitars

There's absolutely a difference not only in the additional magnetic pull of the neck pickup, but the fact that there's no pickup cavity at the neck at all. In other words, if you started with a universally routed strat, and simply removed the neck and middle pickups and used a 1H pickguard, that's only half of the difference. If you have solid wood from neck to bridge pickup cavity, the body behaves very differently in conjunction with the neck joint. Single pickup solid bodies generally have a stronger, fatter tone acoustically, which influences the plugged in sound as well.

 

[LatsMcGee]

Re: Benefit to single humbucker guitars

eSounds wacky but I've always wanted a strat with just a single coil in the neck...that's my favorite strat tone and instantly what I go to when I play strats in music stores....

 

[Little Pigbacon]

Re: Benefit to single humbucker guitars

My neck pickup gets about 80% of usage in most guitars. I could live with a proper single pickup guitar:

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What is that?

 

[beaubrummels]

Re: Benefit to single humbucker guitars

What is that?

I'm betting it's a Peerless Jazz City

http://www.jazzguitarzone.com/jazzcity.html

 

[AudioWonderland]

Re: Benefit to single humbucker guitars

I see that said a lot about single pickup guitars, that someone's particular single pickup guitar sounds amazing, but aside from the magnetic dampening, I can't think of a reason why a single pickup guitar would sound particularly good. I wonder if having two or more pickups to choose from diminishes a person's opinion of both pickups. Maybe in the process of deciding which pickup to use, you notice more things you dislike about the pickups than things you like about them, so that at the day your opinion of them is a little more tempered than it was. But if your guitar only has one pickup, there's nothing to compare it to. It's always the best pickup for the job, because it's the only pickup for the job.

People also often say single pickup guitars are fun to play, maybe it's more the case that a multi-pickup guitar is un-fun to play, to a certain extent, because it burdens you with decisions.

A lot more wood is left in the body when you only have to route for 1 pickup

 

[DreX]

Re: Benefit to single humbucker guitars

A lot more wood is left in the body when you only have to route for 1 pickup

Makes sense, but I've never seen the issue come up with regard to tub or HSH routes in SSS strats, so I took that to mean the difference must be small.

 

[Dr. Vegetable]

Re: Benefit to single humbucker guitars

Makes sense, but I've never seen the issue come up with regard to tub or HSH routes in SSS strats, so I took that to mean the difference must be small.

You just need to read beyond the first page of google results once in awhile.

 

[LesStrat]

Re: Benefit to single humbucker guitars

Advantage: you never need to be concerned with which pickup is selected when you start a song.

No need to remember to "switch back" after a song.

 

[mamm]

Re: Benefit to single humbucker guitars

My single HB strat is my "shut up and play!" guitar.