Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum

Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: Ochaye on September 24, 2010, 08:44:46 PM

Title: single coils
Post by: Ochaye on September 24, 2010, 08:44:46 PM

a humbucker kinda guy here..... do the BK sinlgle coils hum any less in the 1st and 5th positions (on a strat) than the stock fender PUPs do? the dreaded 60 cycle hum

Title: Re: single coils
Post by: MDV on September 24, 2010, 08:52:16 PM

Not really, no.

Tim is dead against hum cancelling methods, as they all affect the tone, so the BK singles are 'true' singles, inc hum.

Title: Re: single coils
Post by: Telerocker on September 25, 2010, 01:25:27 AM

I use IT's in my customstrat and they do hum on higher levels, but not much and certainly no more then Fender-pickups.

Title: Re: single coils
Post by: gordiji on September 25, 2010, 12:25:14 PM

jimi hendrix's, ritchie blackmore's and many more had 'humming' pups.it really don't matter.most nasty noises
coming out of ALL pups are delivered through the fingers of the user!

Title: Re: single coils
Post by: Rocklobster93 on September 26, 2010, 11:04:16 AM

kinda semi unrelated but suhr does have the silent single coil thing. I don't know if/how it affects tone tho