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- Single coil vs humbucker which one for me how to#
- Single coil vs humbucker which one for me install#
Just my opinion, but Landau is the only guy I can think of who somehow makes it work, even though I still prefer his single coil tone. Mixed pickups never worked for me either - in Tribal Tech I put a humbucker in the neck too, and hardly ever used the middle pickup. Germino Club 40 plexi replica + EJ Strat w Suhr ML st.
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Single coil vs humbucker which one for me how to#
Sometimes I miss a good HB tone, but I have no idea on how to make it sound properly on my strat. Coupled with a very bright sounding strat (like mine), final result is a mess. Reality is that the PAF pick ups (that the SD 59 emulates), especially the original ones, where very bright sounding pick ups (that's why Gibson use 300K pots). In the end, it seems that the only way this guitar sounds playable is when I roll volume down to 6 or 7. The only way to reach a good mix seems to be taming the volume - it attenuates highs a bit and do not cut that much bass and mids. When I roll back the tone, the magic in the low 4 strings disappear, and the whole tone becomes much more throaty and scooped. Well, with the new 500K volume pot the 59 sounds more organic along the whole frequencies spectrum, even though I do not love the harsh mids & highs coming out when playing the B and E strings, especially with volume set to maximum. Just for comparison purpose, I have modified the tone pot in order to be NO load, and understand the difference between the HB tone with or without the tone in the circuit. I suspect it has never sounded properly, so that a few days ago I decided to put my hands on rewiring it with a couple of 500K pots and a new 0.022 PIO cap, removing the crappy TBX tone system the guitar was coming with stock. To me it's an 80's sound, my least favorite decade for guitar.īeyond my #1 axe, a classic S-S-S strat, I have an old Fender American Standard strat (bought in the 90's) that back in the days I have heavily modded - beyond all, I have equipped it with a Seymour Duncan 59 in the bridge.
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I've heard Landau play many times with both style strats, and I always like his single coil tone more - that helps me decide because it's cool to hear the difference when other people are playing and not me. It's too honky a sound for me, and practically no bass at all. I stopped using humbuckers a long time ago - I have one strat with a humbucker in the bridge position and haven't used it in at least 10 years. Thanks.įirst of all, it's all personal taste so don't give a lot of weight to my opinion.
Single coil vs humbucker which one for me install#
Do you think with a midrangey kind of pedal like a TS in combination with turning the tone control down on a single coil bridge pickup I can get close to what let’s say Suhr’s SSV sounds like? I should say that if I were to install a single coil bridge it would not be hot. Hi Scott, I’m debating whether to put a bridge humbucker in a strat I’m putting together. Posted: Mon 6:22 am Post subject: Single Coil Bridge v.