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Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: Elessar [Sly] on January 30, 2013, 11:14:18 AM

Title: Upgrade from single coils to humbuckers
Post by: Elessar [Sly] on January 30, 2013, 11:14:18 AM

So I am looking to upgrade from my single coil strat set up on this guitar (see below) to humbuckers. I need something that handles fuzz and hi gain well, but will be used mostly for clean arpeggios and chord progressions. It will most likely be put in standard D or standard C. Any suggestions?

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Title: Re: Upgrade from single coils to humbuckers
Post by: darkbluemurder on January 30, 2013, 11:16:00 AM
Black Dog set.

Cheers Stephan
Title: Re: Upgrade from single coils to humbuckers
Post by: gwEm on January 30, 2013, 11:18:26 AM
Single coils are beautiful. I would go for a set of Sinners. They will handle drop-Z
Title: Re: Upgrade from single coils to humbuckers
Post by: Elessar [Sly] on January 30, 2013, 11:37:36 AM
Quote from: gwEm on January 30, 2013, 11:18:26 AM
Single coils are beautiful. I would go for a set of Sinners. They will handle drop-Z

I am set for single coil guitars now. I am only after humbuckers for this guitar. I did contemplate H/S/S, but decided I'd rather go with humbuckers and get a coil split.
Title: Re: Upgrade from single coils to humbuckers
Post by: Telerocker on January 30, 2013, 06:16:00 PM
I would go HSS, but ok, if you decided on humbuckers I would look at Abraxas. They handle highgain well and have enough vintagepedigree to provide beautiful cleans. Maybe Black Dogs are a good option too, but I don't know how they work out in a strat-concept.
Title: Re: Upgrade from single coils to humbuckers
Post by: Elessar [Sly] on January 31, 2013, 09:56:41 AM
I was leaning slightly towards Crawlers for it (it will probably be put into Cstandard tuning).
Title: Re: Upgrade from single coils to humbuckers
Post by: darkbluemurder on January 31, 2013, 02:33:01 PM
For such a low tuning as C-Standard I would recommend the Black Dog over the Crawler.

Cheers Stephan
Title: Re: Upgrade from single coils to humbuckers
Post by: Telerocker on February 01, 2013, 12:58:46 AM
Quote from: darkbluemurder on January 31, 2013, 02:33:01 PM
For such a low tuning as C-Standard I would recommend the Black Dog over the Crawler.

Cheers Stephan

+1, Crawler could a kind of loose.