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 Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 1:26 pm
Humbuckers. Single, for me personally, only work for when I play softer things, aside from my hardrock/Metal ways. Plus, Paul Gilberts guitars look amazing with three humbuckers.
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 12:16 am
Harmonics are harder for me to pickup on single coils.
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Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 5:31 pm
My guitar is an H-S-H, and I love it. It allows me to play things like... Metallica, Van Halen, and other metal/rock songs, then just with the flick of the switch, I can sound like a blues player. It's awesome.
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Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 7:42 pm
Humbuckers. They, to me, are hands down nicer sounding. Well, for the s**t I prefer to play anyways.
My Washburn sports a S S H design. Hut the single coils are designed for high gain play and to be heavier than normal single coils. The guitar was designed for metal, after all. but having two of them on their allows for me to instantly tone down the heavy factor with the flip of a toggle.
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Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 8:59 am
Personally, i'm getting into high output single coils, like the red Lace Sensors. which has a DC resistance of 14.90k. They are good, because they don't hum, but retain single coil sound. I play alot of blues and rock, so I enjoy having a mixture of sounds. Currently I use two guitars, one with 3 singles and one with two humbuckers. I'm getting back into the single coil sound, but I don't like the singles with a low output, because they won't drive well, even though, like I said, I try to use high output ones when I can, because of their good clean and driven tone.
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 3:17 pm
my strat has a hss (bridge middle neck)
its awesome
yeah!
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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 6:44 am
I prefer humbuckers. I have an incredible rock-style humbucker in the bridge position of my guitar, and a beautiful-sounding humbucker designed especially for blues in the neck position. So there are humbuckers out there that work for blues, but in general they work best for rock. I just don't like single coil pickups.
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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 8:56 am
I play various types of rock, and metal, so it changes.
primarily I play alot of metal, and that requires a bit of CRUNCH. which is something single coils lack, sadly. when i try to play any kind of metal on my washburn, it sounds really twangy and jangly, and i hate that.
but when i play alternative rock, and not to mention different rock like incubus, the humbucking V of mine gets put to shame, and my little washburn strat sounds BEAUTIFUL.
so for me, it's up in the air, leaning more towards the humbucking models.
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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 10:31 am
ok sound diff:
single coil: more subtle, more detailed, sharper distortion
humbuckers: more agressive, rounded out dist. less clearer than single coil
there plain and simple
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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 7:23 pm
I am almost always a humbucker kind of guy. But on rare occasion I have a Cort MGM signature model that when you pull the tone knob out it disengages half the humbucker and it becomes single coil.
My main axes are a Les Paul standard with a bigsby tremlo and a custom Conklin 7-string - both are humbucker machines.
The only guitar I own that does not have humbuckers is an old Peavey I learned on that has P-90s in it.
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