Humbucker sized single-coil

[JMSSMJ7]

I'm looking for a humbucker sized single coil pickup. I know about P90's but I'm looking for something different... like Jimi Hendrix sound.

Something like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF4-r2MpRMs

 

[uOpt]

Re: Humbucker sized single-coil

The Seymour Duncan Custom Shop offers a Strat pickup in a humbucker casing.

I seriously think about getting one, too.

http://www.seymourduncan.com/products/custom-shop/specialized-1/sound_of_strat/

This might also do:
http://www.seymourduncan.com/products/custom-shop/humbuckers/rod_magnet_33_h/

What you really want here is something that doesn't have the passive polepieces and the magnet outside the coils, what you want is something with rod-shaped magnets in the coils.

 

[JMSSMJ7]

Re: Humbucker sized single-coil

The Seymour Duncan Custom Shop offers a Strat pickup in a humbucker casing.

I seriously think about getting one, too.

http://www.seymourduncan.com/products/custom-shop/specialized-1/sound_of_strat/

This might also do:
http://www.seymourduncan.com/products/custom-shop/humbuckers/rod_magnet_33_h/

What you really want here is something that doesn't have the passive polepieces and the magnet outside the coils, what you want is something with rod-shaped magnets in the coils.

Oh cool man thanks alot. That custom shop looks sweet.

 

[uOpt]

Re: Humbucker sized single-coil

That custom shop looks sweet.

No it doesn't. It's a trap

 

[blueman335]

Re: Humbucker sized single-coil

You can also get a single coil sound from a Phat Cat/P-94/etc. It won't be as thin-sounding as a Fender single coil (and you may need to swap a magnet or two), but you can get a much more open tone than with a HB.

 

[jafo]

Re: Humbucker sized single-coil

Why not just buy one of the HB-sized casings that hold Fender pups?

 

[SlowGroove]

Re: Humbucker sized single-coil

I'm looking for a humbucker sized single coil pickup. I know about P90's but I'm looking for something different... like Jimi Hendrix sound.

Something like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF4-r2MpRMs

http://www.sdpickups.com/specialty.shtml


I LOVE MY DIRTY HARRY :firing:
...it's sooo, durty !


James

 

[SlowGroove]

Re: Humbucker sized single-coil

Why not just buy one of the HB-sized casings that hold Fender pups?

Good Call Too !


James



PS : more P90 in bucker size units !

http://www.bg-pups.com/h90.html

 

[bokeh]

Re: Humbucker sized single-coil

I know they are the dark side, but the Dimarzio Humbucker from Hell was built as a humbucker that sounds like a single coil. Its usually only used on the neck due to brightness issues in the bridge position.

 

[flieger67]

Re: Humbucker sized single-coil

I know they are the dark side, but the Dimarzio Humbucker from Hell was built as a humbucker that sounds like a single coil. Its usually only used on the neck due to brightness issues in the bridge position.

Don Grosh had a proprietary pickup wound for him by DiMarzio that was based on the HfH and apparently was only slightly altered from the baseline HfH. I have that pickup in the bridge slot of my Grosh Retro Classic and I wouldn't say that it has "brightness issues" in my guitar, which has an alder body and maple neck and fingerboard.

 

[YHWH]

Re: Humbucker sized single-coil

... forgive my pathetic nitpicking... but if you want that classic, Jimi single-coil vibe... you gotta remember he used a Strat with the magnetic polepieces set in the "right" places. That Custom Shop "single-coil in a humbucker" thingy has the polepieces sitting in the wrong spot for copping Jimi (the poles are placed in the middle of the pup casing). So that one's not going to sound *exactly* like a Strat unless it's going to be placed in the center position of a three pickup guitar. You can probably request the Custom Shop place the polepieces in the more Strat-accurate spots (reverse-angled magnets for a Hendrix-like bridge pup; placed in the center for middle positiion; placed closer to the top fret for the neck spot, etc.). Then you'd definitely be talking Jimi, and getting closer to that tone too... *IMO*...