why not get a single in the middle, hums at the neck and bridge (i say this as someone who owns an HSS strat, i never use the neck pickup) or alternatively active pickups which can act as both singles and humbuckers
fender jagtang. its pretty pricey, but its the same guitar kurt cobain used and pretty much designed. has a single coil neck pickup and a humbucker bridge pickup
It sounds like the tone knob is rolled back slightly. I do this on my telecaster when playing distorted, and it really thickens the sound and takes away the shrill high end.
Single coils! They always sound clear bright and articulate. If you want to muffle them a bit you can roll the tone a little. Humbuckers USUALLY have a fuzzy muffled sound to me and you can't add brightnes and clarity with a knob!
Distorted single coil really suck on riffing.. But sound good on leads or cleans stuff.. Humbucker have punchy sound on distorted riffing, but lack of high end also more dark too.. Both good for it's path..
I like and use both humbuckers and single coil pickups in my guitars. Which one I choose at any given time depends on the songl I'm playing and the sound I'm looking for.
single coils are knives and humbuckers are hammer. Both is needed to make a house. I think a HSS strat covers all the grounds. Also you can't really beat the clean tone of a Fender
Tbh, I think humbuckers are more brighter then single coils. Single coils are cool but humbuckers stand out more and have that nicer tone in the guitar itself.
Didn't sound very clean. I have 21 pickup configurations on my LP, including mixes of humbucker and single, which sounds good. But with enough od they all sound the same
Humbuckers when it comes to clean. Thicker is better. With distortion, everything sounds the same. Single coils just sound a little thinner. That’s it.
