Humbuckers vs. Single Coils

[Gone Fission]

Prefer singles. Sound more open and touch-responsive, as well as being less smeary in the mids. My number one has buckers, though, and I love it so much as-is that I'm unwilling to fuck with it. Stock Godin ghn1 and ghb1, supposedly OEM Schallers that most people seem to hate based on forum chatter I've seen. Who knows why, but they work for me.

[Ghost Hip]

I don't care as long as they are loudddd. Low output doesn't kick my fuzz hard I'd prefer as noiseless as possible though to get smooth low tone feedback. mmmmmmm

[Ryan]

Single coils!

[warwick.hoy]

I prefer Humbuckers myself, but honestly feel like both have their place.

I mean;

I love a the Strat tone and a Strat with humbuckers (at least in the neck and mid position) is just not a Strat.

But I love the creaminess you get from a HB.

But I love the hawtness you get from a P-90 type pickup.

So if I had to settle on just one,...Creamy Humbucker.

[friendship]

I like really fat and warm single coils, or really bright and articulate humbuckers.

COP OUT ANSWER

[fishtankdork]

1 month out of the year I lose my mind and become a humbucker man, than I regain my senses and for the other 11 months I rock single coils.

[patrickviolence]

I like really fat and warm single coils, or really bright and articulate humbuckers.

COP OUT ANSWER

ME TOO

[johnnydeformed]

I used to be exclusively humbuckers but now am mostly single coils (although my Jag has a series/parallel switch to put the two singles in series to replicate a humbucker). I prefer the clarity and string separation I get from lower output singles. I tend to find humbuckers muddy, even low output PAF styles. Perhaps it's a function of getting older. I've found that the sound for me is single coils into a 'cranked' Plexi or Hiwatt with a medium OD in front.

[Jero]

Haven't used buckers enough to say. My two main guitars for years have been a standard tele and 335 copy with p90's. Put buckers(mini neck, dual rail bridge) in the tele once but put the originals back in within a month I think.

Recommend me a tele bridge pup that doesn't sound thin and eww. (I know that's part of a teles sound but I literally never use the bridge by itself)
I should probably note, it stays tuned to D and strung with flats.

[johnnydeformed]

Haven't used buckers enough to say. My two main guitars for years have been a standard tele and 335 copy with p90's. Put buckers(mini neck, dual rail bridge) in the tele once but put the originals back in within a month I think.

Recommend me a tele bridge pup that doesn't sound thin and eww. (I know that's part of a teles sound but I literally never use the bridge by itself)
I should probably note, it stays tuned to D and strung with flats.

I thought the Classic 60s Tele bridge sounded nice and beefy with no shrillness or ice pickiness. I actually can't say the same for a 52 AVRI bridge pickup.

[theavondon]

Yo, jazzmaster pickups for life

[patrick]

P-90s

[dubkitty]

I thought the Classic 60s Tele bridge sounded nice and beefy with no shrillness or ice pickiness. I actually can't say the same for a 52 AVRI bridge pickup.

^this. and it'll get all country-and-western if you want it to as well.

[Moustache_Bash]

I'm goin humbuggies.

[AxAxSxS]

I like em all for different aplications but lately I'm really diggin the Aluma 90's in my latest guit. Not sure if those are tru single coils though, They are kinda their own thing.
Grew up on a strat so I guess I have more hours playing singles over the years.