Humbuckers with Single Coil

[Rainmaker]

Hey guys

I have a guitar with

NECK Coolrails (single-coil humbucker)
MIDDLE Stock
BRIDGE Duncan Distortion

Can I chuck a true single coil in the middle like the SSL-1 or something like that, or maybe the Hot... to get some good single coil tones?

The stock single works fine volume wise at the moment but I need a better quality sound...

Bee

 

[Robert S.]

Re: Humbuckers with Single Coil

Of course you can.

 

[Rainmaker]

Re: Humbuckers with Single Coil

Hehe, cheers, I feel assured now

I have to get a RWRP single, right?

Bee

 

[Benjy_26]

Re: Humbuckers with Single Coil

Will you be splitting your humbuckers? If not, the wind and polarity are unimportant. If you are, it depends on which coil will be active when split.

 

[Rainmaker]

Re: Humbuckers with Single Coil

Ahh okay, the guy at the local music shop did it all for me. At the moment, the stock middle coil is split. Presumably, stock middle pickups are RWRP. I should be safe with getting the RWRP. Or is that a bit of a wild guess...

Thanks for the help Benji.

Bee

 

[Benjy_26]

Re: Humbuckers with Single Coil

No problem, but you can't split true singles. I'm not sure which single coil (RWRP or not) you need in the middle if you are splitting your CR and DD.

 

[Rainmaker]

Re: Humbuckers with Single Coil

Oops! Sorry I meant my 5 way selector goes something like this

1: Cool Rails full humbucking
2: Cool Rails one coil + stock middle
3: stock middle
4: DD one coil + stock middle
5: DD full humbucking

That being said, I don't know which way it's split but if I assume the middle coil is RWRP... it could be safe, but not safe enough.

I could just go with a Hot or a Classic stack... how do they differ from the SSL-1's and all that?

Bee

 

[Benjy_26]

Re: Humbuckers with Single Coil

If you go with either of the stacks, you will have to split the stacks also to get humcancelling sounds in positions 2 & 4.

 

[mrfjones]

Re: Humbuckers with Single Coil

a true single in rwrp should work in there but if you go with a stack you will have to do more research or maybe someone here knows which coil you should use