single coils in humbucker space

[bf0502tr]

i know this is wierd but it's quite difficult to find what i want in the alr available market in spore. so i've decided to see if there are some tweaking i can do to those that are similar. is it possible to get a hsh super strat and change the neck pickup to a single coil? i think i've seen it done somewhere before but i'm not sure if my memory is correct lol :???:

 

[lemonade93]

i'm guessing, not too sure, but you'd have to have a pickguard there to make sure the pickup doesn't drop out of the body cavity or atleast something to hold it there

 

[lightice]

It doesn't matter what routing is done for the strat, it's the pickguard that determines the config of the pickups.

 

[van_halen]

if the guitar doesn't use pickguard it's tricky.

 

[lightice]

if the guitar doesn't use pickguard it's tricky.

Just body mount the single coil, if prettiness is required, then get a HB spaced single coil.

 

[van_halen]

hb spaced single coil? you mean hb sized single coil? there's such a thing?

 

[wasp]

Get This! I've wanted to do this on my old H-H guitar but ended up selling it away. Available on ebay as well.

http://www.guitarpartsresource.com/covers_adapters.htm

 

[Schon]

try a soapbar pickup

 

[deg]

there is this seymour duncan pick up that you can buy. It is a humbucker-sized pickup that allows u to u use it either as a single coil of humbucker. it is quite similar to doing coil-tapping, but it sounds much much more better than coil-tapping a normal humbucker.

http://www.seymourduncan.com/products/electric/humbucker/prails_hot/
http://www.seymourduncan.com/products/electric/humbucker/progressive/prails_shpr1/

check out those pages i gave u above. hope it helps. =)

 

[lightice]

Yeah, I meant HB sized single coil. Yes there are those available on the market.
The conversion plate works as well.

 

[feedback]

humbucker from Hell - dimarzio

 

[fretless6]

Why not just add a coil split to the neck humbucker? Problem solved + u still have a humbucker sound whenever u need it, and no destructive routing required.

 

[lemonade93]

coil tapped humbuckers never really did the trick for me to get a single coil sound

 

[fretless6]

u know coil tapping and coil splitting are 2 different things right? there are certain humbucking pickups on the market that are supposedly designed to sound good when split too.

 

[lemonade93]

whoops.... are they not the same? :/ always thought they were. Paiseh

 

[bf0502tr]

Just body mount the single coil, if prettiness is required, then get a HB spaced single coil.

what do u mean by body mount the single coil?? oh and i dun coil tap. i use my neck stacked single coil on my current guitar for almost everything from metal to jazz. if i coil tap, its gonna hum me insane!!

 

[fretless6]

Alternatively u can try wiring ur current humbucker in parallel and see if you like the tone. No cost to that. Hum free yet closer to a single coil tone. If you like it, you can always add a series/parallel switch too.

Btw just a correction for you. Coil splitting is shorting one coil of a humbucker to make it a true single coil. Coil tapping is different, its something usually done to single coils. Whereby there is a wire that is tapped out to let u run the pickup with less winding.

 

[bf0502tr]

hmmm i dont have a humbucker-equipped guitar lying ard in my room, but a humbucker in series would sound similar to 2 single coils in a std strat no 2/4 position right??

 

[fretless6]

No, a humbucker in series sounds like a humbucker.

Your tonal difference between humbuckers and singles come from a couple of factors. One of the main factors is string sensing aperture. On singles the area that is sensed is narrower, hence u get a clearer (brighter) sound. On humbuckers, the aperture is wider (cos it spans over 2 coils) and u get some harmonics canceled out, giving u a darker sound.

Compared to ur positions 2 and 4, a parallel wired humbucker is different as the 2 coils that are active are closer together. Sounds closer to that of one singlecoil pickup rather than ur positions 2 and 4.

Anyway, no humbuckers are going to sound like a true singlecoil, due to the wide aperture. Even your stacked singles still sound different. I almost never run the stacked neck single on my anderson in stacked mode, always in true single mode. Its a compromise, hum vs tone. It's always ez to turn down the volume control when not playing. If you're getting excessive hum, chances are u have a shielding/grounding problem somewhere.

 

[Loreal]

Maybe this can help....