what humbuckers sound good split?

[strangegrey]

I'm in the process of replacing some pickups on my strat and I need to setup the switching so that I will split the humbuckers.

In some cases, the neck and bridge pickup will get split for single coil use either alone or together with another coil from another humbucker or single coil.

So having said that....do any of you guys have success with humbuckers that split well?

Finally, do the single coil humbuckers (jB jr / Little 59er) split well?

I suspect the higher output pickups will split better....and the single coil buckers dont...


Thanks for any help guys!

-Frank

 

[Hoss]

the full size JB splits great!!!

 

[Zerberus]

Beat me to it, Hoss

But the Custom.5 splits well too from what I hear, the Fullsize Custom is a wee bit "stale" as a single coil to my ears. The JBJr splits well on a Strat, but I´ve never tried it split without another Single coil "in the loop"

 

[Lewguitar]

the full size JB splits great!!!

Yes it does! At over 16K when you split it you'll get two 8K single coils with plenty of output.

Any of the 16K Customs will sound great split too...you'll get 7K single coils. Any lower in DC Resistance than that starts to sound pretty thin for a bridge single coil pickup.

But as far as neck humbuckers go, I like the 59N and Jazz N when split too. The string moves alot more over the neck pickup, so splitting a 7.5K pickup works fine if used as neck pickup.

I really like the Jazz/JB combo in guitars set up for coil splitting...I've done a few Les Pauls that way.

Lew

 

[Jeff_H]

I have a double fat strat that used to have a stag mag/PG combo. Now it has a CC/APH combo. The stag mag was very decent as a single coil when split, but was rather stale and somewhat thin for my taste as a HB. The CC is decent split in the bridge, and works for what I need.

As for the neck, the PG had a great voice split. Really warm, but still articulate...smooth. The APH is not as good split, although still ok for my use, but it's better as a humbucker.

I'd go either JB,C5,CC in the bridge depending on what sound you want from the humbucker version, and PG in the neck.