both do amazing in their own areas, humbuckers obviously for heavier rock tones and beefy sounding tones, single coil for glassy/glimmery clean tones but i couldnt live without either of them
Both are great, but both can be way better. Especially if you are a working musician and play a variety of guitars. Wire the humbuckers in parallel. Wire the bridge single coil to the tone control to roll off abrasive highs. Best of both worlds! Cheers
anyone with a few miles runned knows that both are amazing I personally likes humbuckers to solo single note lines with some overdrive single coils covers all the rest, chords, solos with harmonies in it and..... well, if i had to choose, i would stick with singles.
@@btgoros yup, I know but what I mean is that the 1st position in the HSS configuration it can give you that heavy tone than a single coil, but the 4th position gives you that "mellow" sound and sounds very funky, so HSS has a bit more versatility compared to the SSS.
My brother's Mexican Anniversary Strat originally had 3 single coils but the bridge was totally terrible sounding ( tinny and trebly and shrill) so he had a Hotrails fitted in place of the original single coil. I was worried that position 2 ( bridge + middle) would be lost but I needn't have worried. The guitar has been transformed ; it now has 4 classic Strat settings with the bridge being slightly louder and thicker sounding. Overall a massive improvement.
Position 2 of A strat is a BEAST THOUGH. It's got that mellow yet twangy sound like the ones in Sultans of Swing's tone. Using an HSS in position 2 is a complete waste
Fun fact the humbuckers he used, are actually wired to basically act like single coils, Scott and Tim mainly chose humbuckers because they though it looked cleaner than it would with a SSS layout
Humbuckers all look like that (two single coils combined) but a lot of them have covers over them because it makes them look better and has a slight effect on the tone
I've always wanted to try a Humbucker bridge and Single Coil neck configuration myself for a lot of higher gain guitar playing. I've found playing a single in the neck for lead work to be very entertaining and it really help accent my dynamics a lot better than a regular humbucker in the neck would.
Strangely I liked the HB’s on the clean tone, because they sounded brighter to me. But the SC’s on the distorted, because they weren’t as low end heavy.
Did fucking ANYONE realise that he used the neck setting for the single coils and the bridge setting for the humbuckers? Two completely opposites on the spectrum? No? Just me? Is everyone gullible? The test is skewed asf lmao omg
@@CuriousKey you can't "solve" the rattle of a single coil with eq. do you know how much distortion you have to pile on to get those things to sound heavy? god i hate you pretentious little liars
you should have turned it into a hendrix considering you already have the reversed headstock. The reversed bridge strat really brings out those bass frequencies for that hendrix tone
personally im a humbucker guy but i like a singlecoil in the neck. besides that classic fender neck sound it also lets me switch my clean tone from crunchy to glassy on the fly
Depends on the amp as well. I have low-wattage tube amps, and I prefer the cleans with single coils, as my humbucker are just too hot for true cleans. When I play through my solid state pedal into a digital interface and into powered monitors, I love the cleans with my humbuckers. It also depends on whether you have low-output (PAF's) or high-output (dime buckers) HB's.
I had to get the fender v mod humbuckers because they can switch between humbucker and single coil modes as I love both with distortion or clean for different vibes. There are other humbuckers with single coil modes, but imo fender has the only ones that actually sound good in single mode.
*For those more daring, there are some simple and safe mods that you can explore first so you're not sacrificing the advantages of a single coil or spending an arm and a leg to get an upgrade so you have something pro level in at least this one regard.* You can cut a steel plate from sheet metal and glue it to the back of your pickup's magnet. This reflects more of the magnetic field upward and you easily double to triple your output also effectively increasing sustain. *After this mod, you can use passive R-C filters for low-pass, high-pass and bandpass schemes that normally consume too much power in passive systems, but aren't a problem at all with this mod.* That means if you want a huge boost in mids to get a strat more like a Les Paul, it's easily achieved. There's one more mod in this scheme which is increasing the volume pot to a 1-meg which takes output to an even crazier level that rivals an active set, but there is a noise risk when you roll the volume back and place a load on the pickup that can make 60-cycle or other atmosphere sources of RF worse. I'm a formally educated amateur electrical/electronics engineer(no degree) and personally highly prone to converting every guitar I own into actives. With a simple Class-A design, your pickup sounds identical to before but with literally 20x the voltage output.
What I've learned over the years is your genre & how you play can help determine your pickups. Single coils tend to sound better if you play lead, humbuckers for rhythm. Single coils pair well with Blues humbuckers with heavy rock/metal
I loved playing the humbucker on my Yamaha PAC, but the neck pickup just grew on me. The glassy twangy throaty tone I got out of the neck single coil sounded so good in my mature years of guitar.
My 8-string has a coil split (only energizing one coil in each pickup) and I've been loving that for heavy rhythm tones, it's got a throat to it that almost feels like it's using some kind of mod pedal but it doesn't. Shockingly versatile.
For what I've seen via your channel of your taste and style, I'd say singles for you even though I much prefer humbuckers personally. Here's the long answer, if you want one can do it all guitar, go ssh with a coil tap or if you like different guitars for different jobs, my preference, have an sss strat as your no. 1 and another with a humbucker in the bridge that feels right to you when you're in a distortion mood.
I have a Godin Radium and it fixes this problem. It has a HSH configuration with a t-style pickup and a push-pull knob. You get most strat, tele and les paul tones all in one guitar. Only thing it cannot do is a HH middle position, middle position is for the tele twang.
Single core vs humbuckers. There's really no fair comparison they both have their own place in music. I love the sound of the single core in My telecasters but the humbuckers in my Les Paul sound great too.
Just the video I needed, short and to the point. I'm getting a new guitar today, always played single coil (or just with 1 humbucker) but thought about going double. But after this, nah, 100% sticking to single.
I love single coils for lead work and humbuckers for brutal rythem and chugs so I have a single coil in the neck and humbucker in the bridge and BOOM best of both worlds 😁
I currently have 12 guitars and most of them have a combination of single coils and humbuckers. I love and insist on both -- though not always in the same guitar.
All my partscasters have single coil neck pup and HB bridge pup, can get all those glassy strat sounds from the neck(but when I roll off the tone it can be good for jazz) and then a super distortion in the bridge for the hot stuff
Nah, not really, man. My Strat and my Tele both have the same exact bridge pickups; there are only subtle differences in the bridge position, probably due to the differing types of wood, saddle material, and nut material on both instruments. Also, my tele is like 8.5 pounds and my strat is like 7 pounds, so that also affects the sound. The point being that the bridge plate doesn't do fuck all, imo.
I am using old DiMarzio YJM signature pickups (HS3) in my USA strat and get plenty of sustain, they are very well balanced and most important for me, noiseless. I have also tried HSS combination with Dimarzio Super Distortion in the bridge and it was really good but it has much higher output than HS3 so you have to balance patches well in different positions.
Please, don't mind my 2 cents on your post for it did come up on my feed. Have a rocking good time enjoying your cool guitars. Me, I play my homebuilt teak wood Tele mainly with a Duncan hum on the neck.
is it me, or did the single coils win at every comparison here? on anything else I'd prefer humbuckers, but single coils were juicier and much less nasally here.
Go with humbuckers and coil split them, I'm not sure what the situation is with Fishmans. I have a test on my channel that compares split coils to single coils and they're pretty hard to tell apart, impossible in a full mix. The key is to use high output pickups though. Splitting an 8.5k neck pickup will sound pretty weak. I switched to a 15k neck pickup so it splits at a more realistic output. And if possible, mount the humbucker at the same angle as the bridge single coil on a strat if you wanna keep the authentic strat sound.
I wish you had used the bridge pickup when using the DS1 on the strat rather than the neck one... cos you then used the bridge on the humbucker strat right afterward...
Should've tried all 3 voices on those lepage humbuckers on each [that lepage voice 2 and 3 are better for clean tones but I'm a voice 1 guy for distortion. So many options.] You'd probably prefer passive humbuckers a lot more considering your playstyle since they don't have the odd trappings of active pickups.
The first two tests didn't have the switch positions matched. Can't change two variables and draw a conclusion about one of them. The two sustain trials were so close that you could've gotten wider results by trying it multiple times on the same guitar.
I have a serious question for all you gear heads. I have a 20 year old Gibson sg, and run it through an Orange Crush 20RT. No matter how hard I try, I get the same boxy sound. I like it, but every time I adjust something on the amp, it's still roughly the same tone. Please help I really want to get over this.
I think that for all you played, single coil works better. I´m a metal guy and I began to love single coil specialy for leads. For Palm mutes, I prefer humbucker. The reason why I began to prefer single coil pickups is because they are more expresive and I think that It´s a more important quality than the Tone by Itself. You don´t need to marry one of them. You can have a humbucker that splits to single coil with a push pull and you have both worlds, That´s what I do.
Hey Mikey, does your single coil sonic blue strat have cream pickguard, tone knobs and pickup covers? I really like that 'aged' look you have got going on there.
You don’t have to be beholden to one sound. I have a strat and guitars with humbuckers. I love both. I just play the guitar the music seems to call for.
SSS Wins in my opinion. Classy look, bluesy twang, and all in all Slick Lookin. The HH sounds good as well, but doesn't have that twang of the Single Coil. The HH Looks too beefy, and out of place on a strat, but the HH has 1 Advantage of the Single Coil... Distortion. The Humbuckers will sound alot better than a single coil with a Distortion pedal, and will be able to play Rock/Metal/ECT alot better.
Para mi no es mucha la diferencia, solo se perciben como una mas grave (humbucker) y la otra mas cristalina/aguda (single coil) Siento que ambas servirian bien para tocar la mayoria de generos. Es una opción no obligatorio.. Pero si quieres Pueden comprarse una hot rail para puente y ya estarian a nivel humbuckers. Ya que son muy similares esta en esencia. Así que tienes alternativas buenas, sin tener que cambiar de guitar. Así que sea cual sea la guitar que tengas, cuidala, atesorala y dale de tu amor.
For me... As a 21 years old boy and Imma metal head so I've been using humbucker my whole life. I love the sound of humbuckers more but I still kinda wanna try single coil tough but humbuckers will always be my go to.
Strats sounding like strats, although I always prefer how humbuckers handle distortions. Can't speak for all strats but mine gets waaaaaay too muddy if i dial in too much gain or fuzz.
Single coils hands down. You just can't get that real strat sound with anything else. My primary is an 03 American Series strat with a Hotrail in the bridge, it works but I wouldn't wanna press it beyond that
Fishmans specifically are able to do single coil tones very well, I'd recommend trying other sets in general and maybe even the fishman single coil set
both the scott lepage and tim henson pickups have single coil voicings as well as the tim henson pickups having a hyper clean tone which is meant to replicate a nylon string acoustic so i don’t think he wired the other voicings of the fishmans into the circuit
I feel like I liked the bucks better for clean and the single better for distortion. At least since you had both setups in neck pos. Not sure what would happen with bridge pos, especially if you played with tone knob and double-especially if you played with amp EQ, too.
Boludo toda la vida usando humbuckers y ahora tengo unas ganas de unos simple, el sonido es mucho más abierto en los clean y las distorsiones suenan más vintage
both do amazing in their own areas, humbuckers obviously for heavier rock tones and beefy sounding tones, single coil for glassy/glimmery clean tones but i couldnt live without either of them
Cream disagrees
False dichotomy - HBs do fabulous cleans. I wouldn’t use this video as representing the possibilities of HB cleans.
@@Trenchant463True, and the distorted sound you can get with the neck pickup on a single coil can be very powerful, I love the tone
Both are great, but both can be way better. Especially if you are a working musician and play a variety of guitars.
Wire the humbuckers in parallel.
Wire the bridge single coil to the tone control to roll off abrasive highs.
Best of both worlds! Cheers
Use an HSS Strat. Best of both worlds.
To me the neck pickup of a strat IS the guitar sound. No other guitar/pickup combination has as much character IMO.
Nah
@@MetalGodOfLegend To me bro, to me. Read carefully.
anyone with a few miles runned knows that both are amazing
I personally likes humbuckers to solo single note lines with some overdrive
single coils covers all the rest, chords, solos with harmonies in it and.....
well, if i had to choose, i would stick with singles.
Danilo, you are spot on......... Thanks for speaking for me also.......
Spot on, I just feel like I need humbucker for single note lead, the rest single coil does better
That's why I love HSS configuration, I love the warm sound of the Humbucker on the bridge for rock and the 4th position of the single coil for funk.
4th position means middle + neck position right?
@@btgoros yup, I know but what I mean is that the 1st position in the HSS configuration it can give you that heavy tone than a single coil, but the 4th position gives you that "mellow" sound and sounds very funky, so HSS has a bit more versatility compared to the SSS.
My brother's Mexican Anniversary Strat originally had 3 single coils but the bridge was totally terrible sounding ( tinny and trebly and shrill) so he had a Hotrails fitted in place of the original single coil. I was worried that position 2 ( bridge + middle) would be lost but I needn't have worried. The guitar has been transformed ; it now has 4 classic Strat settings with the bridge being slightly louder and thicker sounding. Overall a massive improvement.
Position 2 of A strat is a BEAST THOUGH.
It's got that mellow yet twangy sound like the ones in Sultans of Swing's tone.
Using an HSS in position 2 is a complete waste
@@TheHumbuckerboyreally? 🙀
Humbuckers for the chugs, single coils for the twangs
Fun fact the humbuckers he used, are actually wired to basically act like single coils, Scott and Tim mainly chose humbuckers because they though it looked cleaner than it would with a SSS layout
Humbuckers all look like that (two single coils combined) but a lot of them have covers over them because it makes them look better and has a slight effect on the tone
@@Zack-bl2gg sorry there was a typo there
Which humbuckers are these?
@@oobernoober7617 polyphia signatures
Still waiting for the day they make a humbucker with atleast one strat single coil so you can split it and have a proper strat tone.
I've always wanted to try a Humbucker bridge and Single Coil neck configuration myself for a lot of higher gain guitar playing. I've found playing a single in the neck for lead work to be very entertaining and it really help accent my dynamics a lot better than a regular humbucker in the neck would.
Strangely I liked the HB’s on the clean tone, because they sounded brighter to me. But the SC’s on the distorted, because they weren’t as low end heavy.
Both easily solved with EQ.
I use humbuckers for cleans and single coils for dirty stuff
But they weren’t glassy
Did fucking ANYONE realise that he used the neck setting for the single coils and the bridge setting for the humbuckers? Two completely opposites on the spectrum? No? Just me? Is everyone gullible? The test is skewed asf lmao omg
@@CuriousKey you can't "solve" the rattle of a single coil with eq. do you know how much distortion you have to pile on to get those things to sound heavy? god i hate you pretentious little liars
Dude, you're a pretty solid player. You made both sound excellent.
you should have turned it into a hendrix considering you already have the reversed headstock. The reversed bridge strat really brings out those bass frequencies for that hendrix tone
personally im a humbucker guy but i like a singlecoil in the neck. besides that classic fender neck sound it also lets me switch my clean tone from crunchy to glassy on the fly
IMO single coils have really nice distortion but I prefer the clean of the Humbucker anyone else think this or am I just weird
most people think the opposite. Humbuckers work quite nicely for jazz tones clean but beyond that I'm not much of a fan of their cleans.
Depends on the amp as well. I have low-wattage tube amps, and I prefer the cleans with single coils, as my humbucker are just too hot for true cleans. When I play through my solid state pedal into a digital interface and into powered monitors, I love the cleans with my humbuckers.
It also depends on whether you have low-output (PAF's) or high-output (dime buckers) HB's.
I had to get the fender v mod humbuckers because they can switch between humbucker and single coil modes as I love both with distortion or clean for different vibes. There are other humbuckers with single coil modes, but imo fender has the only ones that actually sound good in single mode.
*For those more daring, there are some simple and safe mods that you can explore first so you're not sacrificing the advantages of a single coil or spending an arm and a leg to get an upgrade so you have something pro level in at least this one regard.*
You can cut a steel plate from sheet metal and glue it to the back of your pickup's magnet. This reflects more of the magnetic field upward and you easily double to triple your output also effectively increasing sustain.
*After this mod, you can use passive R-C filters for low-pass, high-pass and bandpass schemes that normally consume too much power in passive systems, but aren't a problem at all with this mod.*
That means if you want a huge boost in mids to get a strat more like a Les Paul, it's easily achieved.
There's one more mod in this scheme which is increasing the volume pot to a 1-meg which takes output to an even crazier level that rivals an active set, but there is a noise risk when you roll the volume back and place a load on the pickup that can make 60-cycle or other atmosphere sources of RF worse.
I'm a formally educated amateur electrical/electronics engineer(no degree) and personally highly prone to converting every guitar I own into actives. With a simple Class-A design, your pickup sounds identical to before but with literally 20x the voltage output.
What I've learned over the years is your genre & how you play can help determine your pickups. Single coils tend to sound better if you play lead, humbuckers for rhythm. Single coils pair well with Blues humbuckers with heavy rock/metal
I think the results are obvious. Both sound awesome and are absolutely necessary, and that's why I'm buying another guitar
I loved playing the humbucker on my Yamaha PAC, but the neck pickup just grew on me. The glassy twangy throaty tone I got out of the neck single coil sounded so good in my mature years of guitar.
My 8-string has a coil split (only energizing one coil in each pickup) and I've been loving that for heavy rhythm tones, it's got a throat to it that almost feels like it's using some kind of mod pedal but it doesn't. Shockingly versatile.
For what I've seen via your channel of your taste and style, I'd say singles for you even though I much prefer humbuckers personally. Here's the long answer, if you want one can do it all guitar, go ssh with a coil tap or if you like different guitars for different jobs, my preference, have an sss strat as your no. 1 and another with a humbucker in the bridge that feels right to you when you're in a distortion mood.
I have a Godin Radium and it fixes this problem. It has a HSH configuration with a t-style pickup and a push-pull knob.
You get most strat, tele and les paul tones all in one guitar. Only thing it cannot do is a HH middle position, middle position is for the tele twang.
Single core vs humbuckers. There's really no fair comparison they both have their own place in music. I love the sound of the single core in My telecasters but the humbuckers in my Les Paul sound great too.
Single core? Never heard of her.
The bell tone is heavenly on the single coils.
btw at 0:25 what song is that from or is it something you made?
It's the verse line of Hendrix "Wait Until Tomorrow"
@@procrastinator6902 I'll check that out thank you!
I only noticed when I looked at the video. When I wasn’t looking I didn’t even hear when you switched guitars lol😂
I love single coils in my Strat. I also love the humbuckers in my Les Paul 😂
I like HSS for strat and a gibson sg with humbuckers that split. Those two are my favorite combos I have
Man your black strat looks so cool with double humbuckers
Easy. Single coil in the neck, humbucker in the bridge. It’s the best combo
Just the video I needed, short and to the point. I'm getting a new guitar today, always played single coil (or just with 1 humbucker) but thought about going double. But after this, nah, 100% sticking to single.
that play of John Mayers version of " Wait till tomorrow" was clean af
I freaking love the neck and middle single coils, but i think the bridge pickup sound better with humbucker, except for fuzz
Thats some clean humbucker, many humbuckers are muddy af
I love single coils for lead work and humbuckers for brutal rythem and chugs so I have a single coil in the neck and humbucker in the bridge and BOOM best of both worlds 😁
depends, I switched from a humbucker to p90s and they break up nicely, and chug for metal, without having that annoying low mid chaw-sound
I currently have 12 guitars and most of them have a combination of single coils and humbuckers. I love and insist on both -- though not always in the same guitar.
Two completely different sounds
I couldn’t pick which I liked better but they both sound incredible
I gotta go with single coils on this one. Generally, single coil works better for lead. Humbuckers on a heavy body for rhythm.
Wait i rewatched it, they both sound cool
All my partscasters have single coil neck pup and HB bridge pup, can get all those glassy strat sounds from the neck(but when I roll off the tone it can be good for jazz) and then a super distortion in the bridge for the hot stuff
When it comes to distortion, single coilwins But the humbucker made the tone more full, but it depends on what song are you gonna play
I prefer to use a Single Coils Sim, on Humbuckers Guitars, for cleans tone and switch for distorted tones on humbuckers.
Put a telecaster bridge pickup in the bridge position of a strat it's perfect.
The bridge of the tele is part of why it sounds the way it does as well. But then you lose the whammy.
Nah, not really, man. My Strat and my Tele both have the same exact bridge pickups; there are only subtle differences in the bridge position, probably due to the differing types of wood, saddle material, and nut material on both instruments. Also, my tele is like 8.5 pounds and my strat is like 7 pounds, so that also affects the sound. The point being that the bridge plate doesn't do fuck all, imo.
I am using old DiMarzio YJM signature pickups (HS3) in my USA strat and get plenty of sustain, they are very well balanced and most important for me, noiseless. I have also tried HSS combination with Dimarzio Super Distortion in the bridge and it was really good but it has much higher output than HS3 so you have to balance patches well in different positions.
Please, don't mind my 2 cents on your post for it did come up on my feed.
Have a rocking good time enjoying your cool guitars.
Me, I play my homebuilt teak wood Tele mainly with a Duncan hum on the neck.
is it me, or did the single coils win at every comparison here? on anything else I'd prefer humbuckers, but single coils were juicier and much less nasally here.
Go with humbuckers and coil split them, I'm not sure what the situation is with Fishmans. I have a test on my channel that compares split coils to single coils and they're pretty hard to tell apart, impossible in a full mix. The key is to use high output pickups though. Splitting an 8.5k neck pickup will sound pretty weak. I switched to a 15k neck pickup so it splits at a more realistic output. And if possible, mount the humbucker at the same angle as the bridge single coil on a strat if you wanna keep the authentic strat sound.
for me humbucker is more muddy on a strat
I think the HB beat the SC at the sustain test, by at least a half-second. The peak came later, as well.
I wish you had used the bridge pickup when using the DS1 on the strat rather than the neck one... cos you then used the bridge on the humbucker strat right afterward...
I'm surprised nobody said humbuckers cancel noise. On single coils you had to use position 2 or 4. Or maybe there is better equipment today?
For longer sustain i just stand in front of my amp and i try to get that ringing. Side effects causing ear damage to everyone must be experienced.
Should've tried all 3 voices on those lepage humbuckers on each [that lepage voice 2 and 3 are better for clean tones but I'm a voice 1 guy for distortion. So many options.] You'd probably prefer passive humbuckers a lot more considering your playstyle since they don't have the odd trappings of active pickups.
I’m loving the humbuckers
BADASS guitars!!!!!🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
Single coils destroyed this competition
The first two tests didn't have the switch positions matched. Can't change two variables and draw a conclusion about one of them. The two sustain trials were so close that you could've gotten wider results by trying it multiple times on the same guitar.
I have a serious question for all you gear heads. I have a 20 year old Gibson sg, and run it through an Orange Crush 20RT. No matter how hard I try, I get the same boxy sound. I like it, but every time I adjust something on the amp, it's still roughly the same tone. Please help I really want to get over this.
I think that for all you played, single coil works better. I´m a metal guy and I began to love single coil specialy for leads. For Palm mutes, I prefer humbucker. The reason why I began to prefer single coil pickups is because they are more expresive and I think that It´s a more important quality than the Tone by Itself. You don´t need to marry one of them. You can have a humbucker that splits to single coil with a push pull and you have both worlds, That´s what I do.
It's the single coils for me dawg.
Hey Mikey, does your single coil sonic blue strat have cream pickguard, tone knobs and pickup covers? I really like that 'aged' look you have got going on there.
You don’t have to be beholden to one sound. I have a strat and guitars with humbuckers. I love both. I just play the guitar the music seems to call for.
Single coil all the way. So much clarity
SSS Wins in my opinion. Classy look, bluesy twang, and all in all Slick Lookin.
The HH sounds good as well, but doesn't have that twang of the Single Coil. The HH Looks too beefy, and out of place on a strat, but the HH has 1 Advantage of the Single Coil... Distortion. The Humbuckers will sound alot better than a single coil with a Distortion pedal, and will be able to play Rock/Metal/ECT alot better.
If I install a single coil neck pickup on a Les Paul will it sound like a stratocaster. That would be awesome
Why didn't use position 2,4 and HH middle split for the glassy tone
That’s why there’s HSH and HSS and SHH for people who can’t decide. Or you can just do HHH.
Or you can do what I did: swapped to humbuckers and added a coil split switch. 😄
Single coils sound great with the glassy tone, but the humbuker's beefy-ness kinda hurt the glassy tone.
The P90 elite are calling. Join us 😈
Single coil all the way. Especially for you.
Yes.
The only strat sound!!
I have an idea! Why not just make the pickups split coil? Or am I just dumb
Para mi no es mucha la diferencia, solo se perciben como una mas grave (humbucker) y la otra mas cristalina/aguda (single coil)
Siento que ambas servirian bien para tocar la mayoria de generos.
Es una opción no obligatorio..
Pero si quieres
Pueden comprarse una hot rail para puente y ya estarian a nivel humbuckers.
Ya que son muy similares esta en esencia.
Así que tienes alternativas buenas, sin tener que cambiar de guitar.
Así que sea cual sea la guitar que tengas, cuidala, atesorala y dale de tu amor.
Humbucker with the DS-1 sounds much fuller, but also very noisy
fffck it give me that Humbucker Beefy madness for my DoomMetal tones any day of the year
For me... As a 21 years old boy and Imma metal head so I've been using humbucker my whole life. I love the sound of humbuckers more but I still kinda wanna try single coil tough but humbuckers will always be my go to.
Why did you do the DS1 test using the neck single coil vs bridge humbucker?
Strats sounding like strats, although I always prefer how humbuckers handle distortions. Can't speak for all strats but mine gets waaaaaay too muddy if i dial in too much gain or fuzz.
Single coils hands down.
You just can't get that real strat sound with anything else. My primary is an 03 American Series strat with a Hotrail in the bridge, it works but I wouldn't wanna press it beyond that
Sir your single foils with distortion is a gimmick because you would need a noise gate to fix the distortion feedback
That’s like the big apple Strat. Did you keep the five way switch?
Fishmans specifically are able to do single coil tones very well, I'd recommend trying other sets in general and maybe even the fishman single coil set
both the scott lepage and tim henson pickups have single coil voicings as well as the tim henson pickups having a hyper clean tone which is meant to replicate a nylon string acoustic so i don’t think he wired the other voicings of the fishmans into the circuit
Im on the HSH side with the bridge humbucker being slanted
I mean they’re the signature pick ups so… 🤷♂️
for me it's gotta be the humbuckers across the board they just sound so beefy beautiful and can they ever pack a punch
Personally I would pick the single coils for a Strat but hum buckers are good on teles
each round's winner:
1. single coil
2. humbucker
Hey mikey, what pickups are in the custom shop strat? I'm very curious!
I feel like I liked the bucks better for clean and the single better for distortion. At least since you had both setups in neck pos. Not sure what would happen with bridge pos, especially if you played with tone knob and double-especially if you played with amp EQ, too.
Hi, do you use the ds1 into the dirty channel of your amp?
sss 🤘What an amazing video.
I unfortunately can’t lay my opinion on this bc I’ve never used double humbuckers but it sound thick and strong
how do you achieve the glassy tone? which mods i have to put into my player series?
What is that song u used during the distortion test
Boludo toda la vida usando humbuckers y ahora tengo unas ganas de unos simple, el sonido es mucho más abierto en los clean y las distorsiones suenan más vintage
#1 humbucker #2 single coil #3 single coil
Buckets have a slight edge in my opinion. Go HSS!
Humbuckers have there purpose and so do single coils, but in the end, neither is better than the other
how can you activate all voice combinations of the fishman pickups with only a 5 position switch
Why not try out P90’s!!!! A great representation of the best of both worlds.
I’ve loved humbuckers all my life but the single-coils guitar sounded noticeably better to my personal taste.
Do you have a wiring diagram?