I love a good neck humbucker tone, but honestly I play the DGT 50/50 split and not split at the neck (nearly always humbucker at the bridge). Probably will want to wire the tone control to the bridge to roll off some highs. Get a nice, meaty humbucker in the bridge and live with the singles in the neck. If you can live with a humbucker tone that doesn't exactly sound like your favorite Les Paul or neck-through Superstrat, I agree with the folks who said get an HSS configuration. Normally selection of the coil tapped mode causes one of the coils of a dual coil pickup to be turned off, and the signal is obtained between the other coil and the tap, thereby making it into a single coil pickup. If you stick with the Strat (and all that goes with it - bolt on neck, alder/ash body, maple neck, etc.) it will sound more like a Strat. A selection between dual coil (humbucking) and single coil is provided by some type of switch on the guitar.
It does nice single-coil tones, but it doesn't do Strat single-coil tones by a long shot. It's a mahogany set neck guitar with maple cap and it sounds more like a Les Paul than anything else. That's because it's not a Strat and it never will be. It sounds like you want to modify a Strat to essentially still be a Strat but give you the humbucking tones when you want. If you are not capable to do the work yourself, Andy sells pre-wired pickguards with your choice of pickups.Ĭlick to expand.Seconded. It really keeps the tone from going muddy when you turn down.
#Single coil vs humbucker tapping shred guitar upgrade
I also use a treble bleed that he includes in his upgrade kit. I ordered my parts from Andy Rothsten and used his diagram to wire it up. You need a 5 way super switch to do this mod. I actually prefer the tone of the Fender noiseless pups better, more Fendery. One strat has the Fender Hot Noiseless singles and the other has the Dimarzio Area noiseless. I have an Air Zone on one and a Tone Zone (higher output). You would want to pick a humbucker that matches up resistance wise to your other two singles so you retain good volume balance between them. Switch position 2 splits the humbucker and you get that familiar quack but maybe not as thin as with two singles. I use a Dimarzio humbucker in the bridge and noiseless single coils in the middle and neck. I really like it and it adds tremendously to the versatility of the strat. I have a couple strats in the Lonestar configuration.