[Rabelais]

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

[DarthPhineas]

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

[Matt_B]

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.

[KH Guitar Freak]

The HFH in my guitar sounds somewhat single coilish/P90ish. I would run with 500k pots though

[veylle]

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.

[buddroyce]

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.