Strat with emg single coils metal?

[TonyFlyingSquirrel]

Look in this thread. https://www.sevenstring.org/threads/meet-nigel….361912/

This guitar was intended with metal in mind, but also excels at vintage voicings. EMG can produce wonderful single coil tones that are suitable for metal. I just increase the boost a bit on the single voicing than I do the Humbucker voicing just to get the volume up to the same level.

 

[Spaced Out Ace]

Look in this thread. https://www.sevenstring.org/threads/meet-nigel….361912/

This guitar was intended with metal in mind, but also excels at vintage voicings. EMG can produce wonderful single coil tones that are suitable for metal. I just increase the boost a bit on the single voicing than I do the Humbucker voicing just to get the volume up to the same level.

What boost?

 

[TonyFlyingSquirrel]

What boost?

Font end of your amp or plugin. I have a Tube Screamer boost with a minimal setting for humbeckers, but since the single coils don’t hit the front end of the amp as hard, I have another setting for single coils so that it does. Helps to make the gain si,liar between humbuckers and single coils, but also helps to bring the output level of the single coil set up to that of the Humbucker set up.

 

[Spaced Out Ace]

Font end of your amp or plugin. I have a Tube Screamer boost with a minimal setting for humbeckers, but since the single coils don’t hit the front end of the amp as hard, I have another setting for single coils so that it does. Helps to make the gain si,liar between humbuckers and single coils, but also helps to bring the output level of the single coil set up to that of the Humbucker set up.

Gotcha. I enjoyed the thread. I was not tracking earlier that you're native, which is cool. I never looked at your subname (or whatever it is called), so I figured the name on here (TonyFlyingSquirrel) was meant to be funny.

Anyways, thanks for sharing and clarifying.

 

[Willyjacksonjs22-7]

Font end of your amp or plugin. I have a Tube Screamer boost with a minimal setting for humbeckers, but since the single coils don’t hit the front end of the amp as hard, I have another setting for single coils so that it does. Helps to make the gain si,liar between humbuckers and single coils, but also helps to bring the output level of the single coil set up to that of the Humbucker set up.

I will like to get a Seymour Duncan pickup booster pedal when I get the chance to play with amps.

 

[SubsonicDoom99]

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.

Recently I got my hands on a late '80s MIJ Squier Strat, and someone had installed the SD Hot Stack Plus in the bridge.
Really nice tone, very full and plenty aggressive for playing hard rock/metal, and it's noiseless. Retains a healthy amount of single coil strat-y tone thankfully.
I put it through an SD Pickup Booster pedal and that pretty much did the trick to get me to where I wanted to be tonewise.
Set the resonance switch to the number 2 position and it gives you a pretty good high output humbucker-ish response.
I turn it off when I'm not going for a thicker, chuggier type of sound and need it to be a bit more laid back.
I like using other pickups like the Super Distortion S or the Hot Rails for getting noiseless metal tones from a Strat too, but I'm really loving that this Hot Stack Plus retains more of a truer single coil personality to it that I can thicken up and alter with the pickup booster pedal when I need it.
Kinda get the best of both worlds that way, for me at least.

 

[gclef]

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.

The tw series pickups are pretty cool. I run a 57/66tw set in my latest warmoth vip build. The single coil tones are NOT lame at all. They are very different from the humbucker tones.

Tw pickups will not fit in most guitars without mods though, as they are an extra 1/4" thicker. So strats and other guitars with non angled neck pockets will need the routs deepened.

My vip has the neck pickup solid mounted to the rout and it's just right. The bridge has tons of room due to the neck pocket angle.

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

This is very true.
I have an sss hardtail strat with a clapton circuit, and it does metal tones as well as my humbucker guitars.
It's surprising quite honestly.

 

[Emperoff]

Tw pickups will not fit in most guitars without mods though, as they are an extra 1/4" thicker. So strats and other guitars with non angled neck pockets will need the routs deepened.

Not all of them. The 707-TW has the same dimensions.

 

[gclef]

The 707-TW has the same dimensions, though.

Really? I learned something new today!

This shows you how much I play around with 7 strings, which is never.

 

[Spaced Out Ace]

This is very true.
I have an sss hardtail strat with a clapton circuit, and it does metal tones as well as my humbucker guitars.
It's surprising quite honestly.

Which pickups are in the Clapton Stratocaster?

 

[gclef]

Which pickups are in the Clapton Stratocaster?

Lace holy grails.

They do the single coil thing pretty well, and with the midboost cranked, they do some great high gain tones too.

I bump the tbx to 7 and never really go past 5 or 6 on the midboost.
Also, as I increase the midboost, I have to cut the volume to 7ish or there is too much gain and it gets muddy.
12db of gain is available at the volume knob. 7 is parity withva passive strat. 10 is 12db of boost.
The midboost is another 12db of boost on top of that.

The cool thing is that I can get crisp sounding gain, or super saturated middy gain by playing with the controls.

It's a great system if you know how to use it properly, and by that I mean you can't be an "everything on 10" kinda guy.