Which is your favorite type of pickup?

[BornToShred]

Re: Which is your favorite type of pickup?

Humbuckers. For the bridge position at least.

But i also like the sound of a strat neck pickup.

 

[captain cavman]

Re: Which is your favorite type of pickup?

I'm a P90's kind of guy !

even though I own several HB guitars , I will always come back to my '56 RI LP or my PRS Mc Soap .
The P90's tone is so huge , so rock !

 

[jeremy]

Re: Which is your favorite type of pickup?

i kinda disreguarded the fender part of the single coil thing. i love singles but fenders arent my favorite, at least modern fenders. ive played on a few 50's and 60's teles and strats and most of them sounded fantastic but there was a 66 strat that played like butter but kinda sounded very thin and yet indistinct at the same time, i assume that the magnets had seen some better days

 

[BachToRock]

Re: Which is your favorite type of pickup?

My FAVORITE is the CUSTOM/59 HYBRID humbucker because it has the classic PAF tone with a little extra strength almost slightly P-90-ish... when split to single coil, the CUSTOM coil sounds almost like a vintage tele pickup which would make sense since it is wound with 43 guage wire to slightly over 7k... I use a spin-a-split which is very versatile...
I love single coils as well(especially TELES), but hate the buzz and the string pull from having magnets as the polepieces...

 

[korinastratkyle]

Re: Which is your favorite type of pickup?

Humbuckers, especially if you add a switch for parallel or tapped; I like the sound of a humbucker in parallel over the sound of a standard Strat single coil- and it cancels hum, too!