Humbucker from Hell question

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Offline Rabelais

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Humbucker from Hell question
« on: December 12, 2015, 11:49:38 AM »
Hi, I'm looking for a clear, clean and sort of "single coilish" neck pickup for my SG, and I wonder if the Humbucker From Hell would perform this way with the guitar's 300k linear volume pots?. Should I consider the EJ Custom neck or other options instead?. Thanks

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Re: Humbucker from Hell question
« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2015, 01:03:48 PM »
That's a tough option.   I'd almost lean toward the EJ Custom, but the HFH addresses a lot of neck hum issues as well. M

Another option could be to wire a Humbucker to go between series/split or series/parallel
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Re: Humbucker from Hell question
« Reply #2 on: December 12, 2015, 03:19:58 PM »
I've owned HFHs in the past and have a EJ Custom neck in a guitar right now. Neither sounds like a single cool but the EJ is twangier.

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Re: Humbucker from Hell question
« Reply #3 on: December 13, 2015, 08:40:10 AM »
The HFH in my guitar sounds somewhat single coilish/P90ish. I would run with 500k pots though

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Re: Humbucker from Hell question
« Reply #4 on: December 20, 2015, 07:46:17 AM »
Well, HfH is kinda singlecoilish sounding, but not exactly of course. Still its closer than most of humbuckers. I'm using HfH with 250K absolutely fine. That 250k vs 500k is a bit overhyped thing IMHO.

But for sure, coil-cuts (i.e. using just one coil of humbucker) or parallel connection of coils are much better with 250K volume pot - thats for sure.

Anyway, full humbucker mode loses very little by using 250K volume, but single-coil of humbucker or humbucker in parallel gains a lot.

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Re: Humbucker from Hell question
« Reply #5 on: December 22, 2015, 04:14:12 PM »
Try the bluesbucker. It may not be as single coilish as the HFH but it does have that P90 sound which is kind single coilish but with more body.
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