Had some playing time before dinner. Itching to hear single coils in action but couldn't dial up a good driven tone from the Strat. Simply awful & nasal. The humbucking guitar was nearby so that saved the day. It's times like this that I just wanna smash something.
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With single coils I find that it IS all about the Amp. and effects you use. My 1972 Fender Strat with 3 single coils sounds great, but still very clean thru my Orange 120watt tube head with an old Ibanez tube screamer cranked way up and an older Boss stereo Super-Chorus pedal. Yet it sounds really twangy and nasally and "thin" like bad cartoon music or cheesy 50's country music thru my solid state Marshall stack, even with a distortion pedal it still sounds kinda thin or weak. When I got my Strat used and abused off a pal around 35-40 years ago it had NO pickups in it, but it did come with it's original bridge pup, I tried a few different pup combinations in it over the years and now it has it's original Fender pup back in the bridge pup position and I've added in a passive EMG that I had lying around in the middle and that gives a slightly warmer, fuller, less twangy sound and I threw a Tex-Mex Strat pup I got for like $5 off a guy on the bay for the neck position and that pup sounds pretty fat and nice. I also have a '72 Fender body that is set up as a Super Strat with an old modified Kramer neck on it, it has a vintage (early 80's Hand Wound era) Dimarzio Super-2 Humbucker in it which never sounds thin or twangy. If your single coil guitar ISN'T some high end collectors piece, why not shove a Humbucker in it and turn it into a beast? Try a Dimarzio X2N in it, those have a really nice crunchy sound!
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