Single-Coils or Humbuckers

[Kevin Gaskill]

Originally Posted by musicianinthestates

thats one reason I rarely use my strat style.

Sounds like its time to make a custom axe with just one neck single coil!!

"the Gaskillcaster"

lol

Funny, but when I first got the guitar I was on the bridge/middle pickups almost all the time. Then one day I flipped up to the neck, spent some time tweaking things and have been there every since. So instead of switching multiple times during a set, I just spend a year or so on each position before moving on.

Kevin

[Jason Huffman]

I've been listening and watching players for years and until this post have never realized how many people use the neck and bridge pickups on strat style guitars. I used to play a Squire strat on the neck for leads and bridge or middle for rhythm, but I don't play that guitar much any more because the pickups just don't sound that great. I have a 2007 Standard Tele which for the price I paid for it has amazing tone. I use the bridge pickup for both lead and rhythm, although, currently I'm plugging a hole in my youth worship band (I'm the 33 year old youth director/band director) as a bass player. I love the Tele with jsut a little bit of distortion and a fat delay to get that U2 Edge kind of tone.

[Smitty]

Well...I am thinking seriously about doing a "Lincoln Brewster" (DiMarzio Area 61 in the bridge, Area 58's in mid and neck), BUT...The GFS "64 staggers" are amazing too...and a bit punchier. Then there is the Lace Sensor Blue, and the Lace Sensor Red. My guitar tech raves about the Blue, says the Red is just too hot.

So... I haven't decided yet!

Smitty

[travisvwright]

I'm at a similar place. I have CS Texas Specials in my strat and generally like them but am considering changing the very bright/hot/sharp bridge pickup for a SC sized Humbucker. Most specifically a Duncan lil'59.

[Smitty]

I don't know much about the Duncan little 59...I couldn't find power specs for it, but GFS makes a VERY similar pup called the "lil killer" which just seems crazy hot - 15K ( they also make it in 6k, and 10k).

I like the look of a sealed cover pickup...Like the EMG select and HZ series, or the Lace Sensor...just looks clean and finished to me, I guess.

One of my Worship Leader buddies plays an 02 MIA Strat with a set of GFS "64 Stagger Overwound" pups, and gets possibly the best tone I have ever heard...and you or I can get that SAME set for about 75 bucks!

Smitty

[musicianinthestates]

Originally Posted by Smitty

I don't know much about the Duncan little 59...I couldn't find power specs for it, but GFS makes a VERY similar pup called the "lil killer" which just seems crazy hot - 15K ( they also make it in 6k, and 10k).

the SD site lists the lil 59 as 17k - DC resistance.

[musicianinthestates]

on another note, check this out...

YouTube - DiMarzio pickups with cheap Telecaster

seriously considering this combo, twang king neck and fast track 2 bridge, for my tele copy! this just sounds like something you'd expect a gladiator to use as entrance music!

[travisvwright]

MITS the 17K is a Tele pickup. I'm not sure why it's so much more than the strat version.

[musicianinthestates]

Originally Posted by travisvwright

MITS the 17K is a Tele pickup. I'm not sure why it's so much more than the strat version.

thanks for the correction...
tele bridge pups are fairly hot little things to begin with. I still prefer the Dimarzio power rating system, they give the, I believe, mV output in addition to the DC res. And DC res doesn't always indicate power output. If you check their site, you see the standard tele true velvet bridge is a solid 215 output even though its only 7.41k while the true velvet strat bridge pup is 142 output and 6.49k... conversely, if you check out the strat section, the HS-3 is a whopping 23.72k while only being 93 output.

[Smitty]

Oh sure, the SD site...the only place I DIDN'T look!

Smitty