Let me recommend you another trick on top of this, since the matched eq on the prs still sounds flat compared to the strat, try again with the tone control lower on your prs when feeding the eq matcher, than after the match eq applied, turn it back to 10. This is a trick that works for me. I tried the same thing with a mooer tone capture gtr pedal that does the same thing, to model my strat on my jazzmaster, and it worked better this way, to add the missing extra chime.
I often find it crazy that companies go into so much detail with artists and spend so much time sculpting pickups. So much can be changed with a bunch of EQ’s after the guitar and pre-amplifier. Same kinda thing for Kemper profiles. It totally depends on the guitar as to the results. I managed to match an EMG 81 to a single coil type sound this week and vice versa. Just saw this vid - Can’t believe more people don’t do this!! 🤙
I love swapping out the 3-position blade switch in HH guitars with a 5-position Megaswitch where the inner and outer coils are on positions 2 and 4. Got some strat/tele sounds out of it without having to pull on a knob.
Very brilliant Leon thanks for sharing. I’ve been wanting to mimic that single coil tone for cleans for a while. Hopefully that trick will also work well with emg pickups !
Hi Leon! A quick trick is to apply the full FAB filter ProQ from the tone match to a flat IR, apply a high number of bands, and save the filtered IR. Then add a cab block in your AxeFX with the filtered IR, and it should go even closer than the PEQ block! Let me know if it works for you! Personally i can't do it in the FM3 as we have only one cab block, but a filtered IR is a very good tone sculpting approach...
That works great too, and is essentially what the Axe tone match does. One downside to this approach is you end up with a lot of very narrow cuts and boosts which can sound strange, which is where smoothing/limited band PEQ comes in. Very interesting!
@@judgegroovyman yes, if you apply the peq to a flat IR and then add a cab block with the filtered IR, you end up with similar results (better have a short IR though to avoid adding reverb effect etc.)
Wow Tbh I actually like the eq’d humbuckers more than the single coil. Not gonna lie but as much as I like single coils, the strat is a little too bright sounding but the humbucker is like somewhere in that sweet spot which make it sound absolutely amazing. Thanks for tutorial. Gonna try and get the same result using neural dsp and my ebmm axis.
Would appreciate a demo going the other way for my strat. Maybe I'll just try to dial it by ear. I don't usually play with eq early in the chain but this shows how much power is there.
Great example showing parametric EQ being the most impactful tool in audio. I recently did something similar (not really lol) but I used a parametric EQ before the amp to alter my overall pickup sound a bit. Wanted a little more low end thump and less bite in the high end. Parametric EQ to the rescue, like I installed new pickups!
The fast easy thing to do to get more single coil-ish tones with a humbucker that so many people miss is to just roll back the volume on your guitar! An ocean of tone possibilities are available if you use that knob as more than an off/full switch.
@@LeonTodd haha It would be a fun April fool image to make where the volume is just an on off switch, and tone knob is labeled "correct" and "wrong" at its' edges!
A single coil has a higher resonance peak than a humbucker. If you lower the volume, you actually lower the resonance peak even further. A higher pot value (1M) would work to a degree, or a switchable resistor between volume pot and ground. Another approach: add a switchable buffer to the guitar. It separates the pickups from the cable capacitance, which gives you a higher resonance frequency.
Yes, rolling down the volume cuts trebble unless you have a trebble bleed circuit. I guess what it achieves is gain matching, that can be enough if you like the fuller sound of a Humbucker.
Reminds me of the HBE Detox and Mad Professor Underdrive eq pedals. 🎛️ Three bands and a volume control are sometimes all you need to transform a humbucker into a disorted amp into a single coil into a clean channel. Not to be the guy who makes everything about Ty Tabor, but you throw one of those in an expression pedal controlled effect loop... 🔥
I do not know how you would get one , but i would like to hear a kiesel ,up against those single coils they wire them to have single coil from humbuckers at positions 2 and 4 ( starting from neck)
Wow - soooo cool to hear this through FW19 beta 3 Thanks for doing this, man, it's awesome - that strat is a one of a kind for sure, and the way you play it even moreso
Hi Leon, first of all a really exceptional job! Excuse me but I don't have the possibility to do an approximation work like the one you did (and in what excellent way you did it!), therefore I ask you if it is possible to buy a PEQ block, like the one you made, which allows me to bring the sound of the neck humbucker closer to the sound of a neck vintage style single coil. Thank you so much anyway for this great work!
Holy shit dude this is exactly what I have been trying to do trying to emulate strat sound on a les paul I could not quite get there but this shit is fire haha thnk you so much Greetings from Mexico!
Here's the preset for anyone who wants that PEQ axechange.fractalaudio.com/detail.php?preset=9379
Let me recommend you another trick on top of this, since the matched eq on the prs still sounds flat compared to the strat, try again with the tone control lower on your prs when feeding the eq matcher, than after the match eq applied, turn it back to 10. This is a trick that works for me. I tried the same thing with a mooer tone capture gtr pedal that does the same thing, to model my strat on my jazzmaster, and it worked better this way, to add the missing extra chime.
I love people who can intelligently use instrument for all genres.
I tried this two weeks ago and now that PEQ block is a must on every clean preset for me
I often find it crazy that companies go into so much detail with artists and spend so much time sculpting pickups. So much can be changed with a bunch of EQ’s after the guitar and pre-amplifier.
Same kinda thing for Kemper profiles. It totally depends on the guitar as to the results. I managed to match an EMG 81 to a single coil type sound this week and vice versa. Just saw this vid - Can’t believe more people don’t do this!! 🤙
I love swapping out the 3-position blade switch in HH guitars with a 5-position Megaswitch where the inner and outer coils are on positions 2 and 4. Got some strat/tele sounds out of it without having to pull on a knob.
Where do I get one?
@@Hiro.the.God. StewMac sells 3 different versions.
Very brilliant Leon thanks for sharing. I’ve been wanting to mimic that single coil tone for cleans for a while. Hopefully that trick will also work well with emg pickups !
AWESOME!!!!! The difference is, the strat in 2+3 pups gives you a comb filter effect, that is impossible to match, but what a great lesson:)
Hi Leon! A quick trick is to apply the full FAB filter ProQ from the tone match to a flat IR, apply a high number of bands, and save the filtered IR. Then add a cab block in your AxeFX with the filtered IR, and it should go even closer than the PEQ block! Let me know if it works for you! Personally i can't do it in the FM3 as we have only one cab block, but a filtered IR is a very good tone sculpting approach...
That works great too, and is essentially what the Axe tone match does. One downside to this approach is you end up with a lot of very narrow cuts and boosts which can sound strange, which is where smoothing/limited band PEQ comes in. Very interesting!
@@LeonTodd You are right! very narrow filters can be a problem, especially they change the phase content...
Pardon my ignorance but are you two saying you could apply the same approach in the video to a customized IR instead of running a peq plugin?
@@judgegroovyman yes, if you apply the peq to a flat IR and then add a cab block with the filtered IR, you end up with similar results (better have a short IR though to avoid adding reverb effect etc.)
Wow
Tbh I actually like the eq’d humbuckers more than the single coil. Not gonna lie but as much as I like single coils, the strat is a little too bright sounding but the humbucker is like somewhere in that sweet spot which make it sound absolutely amazing. Thanks for tutorial.
Gonna try and get the same result using neural dsp and my ebmm axis.
Would appreciate a demo going the other way for my strat. Maybe I'll just try to dial it by ear. I don't usually play with eq early in the chain but this shows how much power is there.
Gonna try this on my Boss GT-1000, it has like 3-4 EQs at the same so I think it could work
Great example showing parametric EQ being the most impactful tool in audio. I recently did something similar (not really lol) but I used a parametric EQ before the amp to alter my overall pickup sound a bit. Wanted a little more low end thump and less bite in the high end. Parametric EQ to the rescue, like I installed new pickups!
All hail PEQ!
Using a pedal EQ works the same way, it'll turn a humbucker into a single, take out the dreaded piezo acoustic pang, etc..
Oh man that piezo PANG keeps me awake at night
I do the same with an MXR 10 Band EQ. Works great for me!
The fast easy thing to do to get more single coil-ish tones with a humbucker that so many people miss is to just roll back the volume on your guitar! An ocean of tone possibilities are available if you use that knob as more than an off/full switch.
You mean those knobs do something?! :p
@@LeonTodd haha It would be a fun April fool image to make where the volume is just an on off switch, and tone knob is labeled "correct" and "wrong" at its' edges!
Thats how Ive been doing it (rolling the volume way off) and now with Leon’s awesome trick I bet Im going to get some killer tones!
A single coil has a higher resonance peak than a humbucker. If you lower the volume, you actually lower the resonance peak even further. A higher pot value (1M) would work to a degree, or a switchable resistor between volume pot and ground.
Another approach: add a switchable buffer to the guitar. It separates the pickups from the cable capacitance, which gives you a higher resonance frequency.
Yes, rolling down the volume cuts trebble unless you have a trebble bleed circuit. I guess what it achieves is gain matching, that can be enough if you like the fuller sound of a Humbucker.
Thank you, Leon!! Just what I needed!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉
this is very helpful information, the EQ analysis is a good thing.
Glad it was helpful!
My Boss Katana 50 MKII has a similar feature built in to emulate SC to HB, HB to SC and even a hollow body emulator. Its amazing to me.
Reminds me of the HBE Detox and Mad Professor Underdrive eq pedals. 🎛️ Three bands and a volume control are sometimes all you need to transform a humbucker into a disorted amp into a single coil into a clean channel. Not to be the guy who makes everything about Ty Tabor, but you throw one of those in an expression pedal controlled effect loop... 🔥
question heavy metal humberker to telecaster by eqing?
Is there a way to make this work by just adjusting bass/Treble/middle on an amp?
If you took that EQ curve and simply inverted it, would it make your Strat sound more like the PRS?
That's great! I had a similar idea for cabs, but don't know how that could be done
Nice job _sculpting_ the sound Leon!🎸
Yooo been playing with this! I like it alot! Makes my guitar sing in a new way :D
genius!! using all the tools to bring about the sound, ... I luv it! Thanks, LT! guess what i'm doing, ... hahahaha, ... LOL!
Cool idea thanks!
Glad you like it!
I do not know how you would get one , but i would like to hear a kiesel ,up against those single coils they wire them to have single coil from humbuckers at positions 2 and 4 ( starting from neck)
Wow - soooo cool to hear this through FW19 beta 3
Thanks for doing this, man, it's awesome - that strat is a one of a kind for sure, and the way you play it even moreso
Glad you enjoyed it!
Amazing what EQ can do!
Cool video Leon
This is very cool! Can you share that fab filter EQ preset?
Hi Leon, first of all a really exceptional job! Excuse me but I don't have the possibility to do an approximation work like the one you did (and in what excellent way you did it!), therefore I ask you if it is possible to buy a PEQ block, like the one you made, which allows me to bring the sound of the neck humbucker closer to the sound of a neck vintage style single coil. Thank you so much anyway for this great work!
Can you do an alternate version to make the Strat bridge single coil sound like a humbucker?
i live in an NYC apartment and my single coils are pretty noisy. maybe i should make the switch and use EQ
Very, very cool!!
Thank you! Cheers!
Very Cool!!
Very nice. As you say, not exact, but definitely close and eminently useable. It'l be nice not to have to swap out guitars on occasion.
That sounds amazing - I'm new to this channel so can you tell me where I can find the block online?
Thanks! Here you go axechange.fractalaudio.com/detail.php?preset=9379
@@LeonTodd Thank you
Excellent. We are tool using animals, and radical eq moves are best done with lights on! Cheers Champion! D
Opposable thumb EQ
@@LeonTodd 🦍🏁
I wonder how I can approach this technique with a boss GT1000
Next mission.
EQ bridge humbucker to neck single pickup
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Why you are on middle pick-up with eq and neck pick-up without eq ? Interesting
clever :-)
Didn't you take this idea from Kley De Jong's video on the same topic?
Holy shit dude this is exactly what I have been trying to do trying to emulate strat sound on a les paul I could not quite get there but this shit is fire haha thnk you so much
Greetings from Mexico!
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