#SINGLE COIL VS HUMBUCKER STRAT HOW TO#
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#SINGLE COIL VS HUMBUCKER STRAT HOW TO#

How to EQ your AmplifierДЄdjust and tweak your amplifiers EQ parameters removing treble and adding bass to darken the guitar tone adding warmth and roundness.ДЄs a guide, here are some general amp settings and recommendations to follow.

Keep in mind, you will have more versatility when EQвЂ™ing with your amp as you have more parmeters to tweak and adjust. You can even do a mixture of both and experiment to see what sounds best with your amp, guitar and effects. Keep in mind, with the right EQ settings, you can make the thinnest and twangiest guitar sound considerably thick and meaty. You are essentially masking the brightness and articulation of the single-coil pickups and adding warmth and thickness to beef up your single-coil tone. You do this by setting your amps EQ correctly to produce a dark and thick tone similar to a Gibson Les Paul. The reason is to decrease your single-coil guitars natural brightness and articulation. You will need to learn how to EQ your amp, guitar, and pedals precisely. And hereвЂ™s how to do itвЂ¦ 1 вЂ“ EQ Your Amp and Guitar for a Thick ToneДЇirst, to craft a thick sound without performing any technical modifications to your single-coil guitar. So it makes sense to try and achieve the thickest tone available from your single-coils. Whereas, Humbuckers sound thick, warm, round and darker. Single-coil pickups naturally sound thin, twangy, bright and articulate.

Use guitar effects (delay, chorus, octave, compression) to thicken the sound.

Double up your distortion and overdrive pedals.

Adjust your amp and guitarвЂ™s EQ for a warm and thick tone.

In this post, I will offer you 7 useful tips for making a single-coil sound like a humbucker. I admire the warm, thick, and creamy lead tones from humbucker pickups (picture above).Д«ut what if you donвЂ™t own the luxury of both a single-coil and humbucker guitar in your collection like me? I love the sound of the sparkling, lush, clean tones from single-coil pickups.Д«ut I also Love my Epiphone Les Paul. The Tele has both coils split to the 4-way switch for neck/parallel/bridge/humbucker.I love my 50s inspired Stratocaster.

#SINGLE COIL VS HUMBUCKER STRAT MOD#

I'm planning a mod to use a stacked tone/blender pot so I can move the volume pot to the first tone pot hole in the pickguard. My latest Strat has a reverse Hendrix angle bridge pickup, with the Armstrong Blender.

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That way I always have a stealth LP at the ready but I get the full range of stock SSS tones. I only have SSS Strats and I auto-wire any new one with the Armstrong Blender mod (SSS blends to HSH). I had more or less put away my Strats for quite a while until I got a Joyo American Sound pedal. Pots and caps are as important to the tone as the pickups. The reason people say they don't is they swap pickups and leave the Strat controls stock. If you like the feel of a Strat chassis, where it hangs, the neck thickness, the lower guitar weight, the trem maybe, certainly if you hate the Gibson fragile headstock, then load up a Strat pickguard with Gibson HH pickups and Gibson pots.

#SINGLE COIL VS HUMBUCKER STRAT SERIES#

Putting Strat single coils in series is a pretty good LP humbucker tone, but it will be darker due to the 250k volume pot where HH guitars get a 500k volume. Get a Strat with SSS and you'll have all the tones available to you between those guitars. If you have HH single cuts then a HH, HSS, or HSH Strat is too redundant. I think they sound different too, assuming that the pickups between guitars have a similar sonic footprint, but this is harder to observe while running the racks or hanging out in your buddy's basement. Those guitars feel and respond differently than a Les Paul would.

I personally love the idea of a longer scale bolt on neck guitar with bright woods which has humbuckers. mahogany/korina/etc darker woods vs alder/maple/etc brighter woods (also some deviations here) Tune-o-matic or Bigsby vs Fender's ashtray or in-body 'Tremolo' bridges

25.5' vs 24.75' scale length (with occasional deviations) As a result of this, humbucker vs single coil aren't the only salient distinction between the traditional Gibson and Fender designs. The original designers at both companies who came up with the guitar platforms we all love so much clearly had different sonic goals with their guitars and all of these have some effect on the sound.

Single coil vs humbucker strat