Strat with emg single coils metal?

[Willyjacksonjs22-7]

I have an esp Strat type guitar with jumbo frets and 14inch radius and I really like the versatility that it gives me. I don’t know why but the bridge pickup in high gain territory, sounds like a humbucker buts it’s so noisy. So I was wondering if I should put some emgs single coils in it? But I don’t know if that emg single coil in the bridge position will be good for metal? Yes there’s a prewired emg pickguard but I don’t know if it’s for fenders/squiers only and Also there’s an hss configuration but I rather stick with sss to have same volume level in all pickups.

I use amp sims and could be that my Scarlett input is acting as clean boost and that’s why it gives that huge tone in the bridge position? Because if I use an amp I don’t get that.

I wonder if the emgs single coil are high output pickups?

 

[Emperoff]

Why not put a HSS set with the humbucker being a dual pickup like the EMG-89 or any "TW" version?

The TW variants are actually two pickups in one (3 coils per pickup), so when you enable single coil mode you "select" the single coil, instead of disabling one coil from the humbucker.

This leaves you with single coil tones a lot more authentic (for an active SC, that is). You strat would be even more versatile, having both true humbucker and single coil tones to mix and match.

 

[tedtan]

Yeah, I would go with an HSS setup, too, making sure the humbucker splits to a single coil.

 

[Willyjacksonjs22-7]

Why not put a HSS set with the humbucker being a dual pickup like the EMG-89 or any "TW" version?

The TW variants are actually two pickups in one (3 coils per pickup), so when you enable single coil mode you "select" the single coil, instead of disabling one coil from the humbucker.

This leaves you with single coil tones a lot more authentic (for an active SC, that is). You strat would be even more versatile, having both true humbucker and single coil tones to mix and match.

I didn’t know emg had a different version of the 81. ESP doesn’t produce this model anymore and they don’t sell pickguards. There’s independent websites that can make the pickuguard but I wonder how much it will cost.

 

[Willyjacksonjs22-7]

Will this diagram work? The tw and two single coils? One volume knob and one tone knob. Will be perfect so That I can move the volume knob down and don’t hit it anymore.

 

[Gmork]

Short answer: single coils sound wicked for metal and tons of people use em, i being one of em.

 

[Willyjacksonjs22-7]

Short answer: single coils sound wicked for metal and tons of people use em, i being one of em.

I really like how the bridge sounds with my amps sims. I get good metal tones but it’s noisy. Again, I don’t know why with real amps i can’t get good metal tones. I’m guessing is because they are low output pickups and my interface input is acting as a clean boost and in the amp sim i have an overdrive engage too. Anyway, I’ll give a shot to the SA emgs and see how the bridge will sound.

 

[Noodler]

I really like how the bridge sounds with my amps sims. I get good metal tones but it’s noisy. Again, I don’t know why with real amps i can’t get good metal tones. I’m guessing is because they are low output pickups and my interface input is acting as a clean boost and in the amp sim i have an overdrive engage too. Anyway, I’ll give a shot to the SA emgs and see how the bridge will sound.

Do you have a noise gate? If not, put one in your pedal chain right after your tuner to get rid of the single coil noise. I do that with my Strat and Talman and I get zero noise from the singles. Cheaper than buying new pickups too!

 

[Kosthrash]

You may just replace your bridge single coil with a humbucker like Dimarzio's Super Distortion s (cheaper solution, no need for battery space like in actives) :

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[Willyjacksonjs22-7]

Do you have a noise gate? If not, put one in your pedal chain right after your tuner to get rid of the single coil noise. I do that with my Strat and Talman and I get zero noise from the singles. Cheaper than buying new pickups too!I

I do use a noise gate. No noise with humbuckers. I think it’s the pickups

 

[wheresthefbomb]

Short answer: single coils sound wicked for metal and tons of people use em, i being one of em.

okay but here in amerika that kind of nerd shit is illegal, I called the cops on my neighbor for playing trivium on a danelectro and he's in a federal super max serving consecutive life sentences (one for each lipstick pup, the judge skipped the death penalty because it was at least 30" scale)

 

[Gmork]

okay but here in amerika that kind of nerd shit is illegal, I called the cops on my neighbor for playing trivium on a danelectro and he's in a federal super max serving consecutive life sentences (one for each lipstick pup, the judge skipped the death penalty because it was at least 30" scale)

Lolol I actually was looking into lipstick pups lol.

 

[Willyjacksonjs22-7]

I forgot, there’s noiseless single coil pickups. And there might be high output ones too.

 

[Willyjacksonjs22-7]

Has anyone tried a clean boost with an amp to make the single coils sound fuller or get more output of them? ( guitar, clean boost, overdrive and a high gain amp) Im curious if this trick will work like it does with my interface.

 

[Gmork]

@Willyjacksonjs22-7
Boosted single coil metal. Most of my dorky little yt channel is single coil death metal/grungy stuff.

 

[Willyjacksonjs22-7]

@Willyjacksonjs22-7
Boosted single coil metal. Most of my dorky little yt channel is single coil death metal/grungy stuff.

Great tone! Are they stock pickups? What did you use to eliminate the extra noise of single coils? I’m still thinking about getting those emg single coils.

 

[Gmork]

Yup just stock squier pickups. The signal was..
-Mxr m77 od, normal boost settings.
-isp decimate (mini gate pedal)
-into interface and TH-U metal plugin.
-left track is 5150, right is randall T2.
-light compression on the master track to glue the guitar/drums
Double tracked and hard panned L/R.
Left

 

[Spaced Out Ace]

Get the EMG DG20. The boosts should get you going.

 

[mpexus]

You can also go Hotrails. You really dont need to spend much on them

 

[teamSKDM]

no reason for the commitment to emg. my personal opinion is put in a humbucker that splits into a single coil so your guitar is even more diverse than before. if not that, then the dimarzio super distortion single coil hum for sure as suggested earlier.