and that should make that single-coil sound more like a humbucker. Humbucker pickups are just two single coil pickups joined together to cancel the 60 cycle hum produced by single coil pickups. Plug your electric guitar directly into your favorite amp with no effects pedals. Single Coil Pickups consist on just one coil.

No science behind this, just field notes. The differences are quite simple when it comes to Humbuckers vs Single Coil Pups. The combo somehow works well with my old Esquire - fat & warm enough but retains that 'bite' or 'cutting' quality.

I have one set that're semi-permanently attached: 2-knob Keeley Comp & 1 of my old Rats. Interestingly my exp is they seem to warm up the sound a bit. Properly set they DO enhance sustain in a musical way. Should also mention Keeley Compressors, only had 'em for 5-7 years. The synergy was interesting - TS' warmth largely retained, not much 'grind' added, but sustain was in fact enhanced

All my pedals are either in storage or with elder son ( scoring session, got it on his own) so I can't state or give pix of settings now.ДЄs often happens, one night long ago for an especially sustain-wanting musical passage I stomped both fuzz boxes. I long ago marked mine with two distinct markings for the 'Gibson app' & 'Fender app' if you will. One could have two 'pre-sets' thereby with no knob twiddling. Orig/1st generation ProCo Rat came later, edgier sound. Orig Tube Screamer by itself is a warmer/fatter sound in my exp. I feel there's some truth in my exp, but YMMV. Final note: some players feel the single-pickup guitars are better for slide since there's no other magnets damping vibration. It's in the hands/ears of each individual what works best for them. I use a heavy (6-7 oz.) brass slide to get the tone I want on both acoustics & electrics. I had an original Coricidin bottle, could never figure out how Duane got the tone he did with that light-weight, thin glass. Esq can take a kicking & keep on 'licking'.ДЄll the above through vtg BF or Brown Fender tube amps in my case. Vtg Gibsons' neck-headstock joints are vulnerable if on a stand and some bozo knocks it over. The Esquire is also now my #1 go-to for electric slide due to durability. My '60 Esquire is fairly 'fat-sounding' but wants different tone/gain settings on stomp boxes to sound as I want it. The hand-ground Alnico 5 magnets and moderate windings (Heavy Formvar wire) yield a bright and punchy tone with vintage output. My preference(s): late-'50s-early-'60s LP Juniors (had a few) are great for me, tho' I usually use a stomp box or even 2 cascaded for 'infinite' sustain. Description: Seymour Duncans most popular single-coil for Strat. It's all personal preference in fact (IMHO). One can slide on any guitar of course, assuming the action's set to one's preference. I can't even really name a favorite, but on any given day, I like the P90s as much as any of 'em.I've owned & 'slud' on PAF vtg Gibsons, P-90 vtg Gibsons, vtg Teles & Strats over the last 4 decades. But in the past year, since i started playing a lot again after many many years of barely playing at all, I've found that I love strats as much as I ever did, but I've also developed a taste for humbuckers and P90s. I had a set in an old Firebird I had in the early '80s, but never liked the neck on that guitar so I never really had a chance to learn to appreciate the pickups. I'm new to them or at least to liking them. Not as smooth as a humbucker, a little easier to play with just a bit of dirt. This wiring changed the sound captured by the pickups, which is characterized as thick sound with more volume. They were made in an effort to combat the unwanted hum of a single coil pickup, hence the name humbucker. Growl is the term I keep coming back to - they've got a lot of midrange and they sound awesome clean or with just a bit of drive. A humbucker is made up of two single coils that are wired in opposition of one another. I guess you could think of them as kind of a midpoint, a lot fuller, throatier, more growl than a strat or tele single coil, more midrange and easier breakup than a humbucker. if this setting is set to Press or Touch+Press, when you press a footswitch assigned to a parameter (like my Amp Drive or Single Coil / Humbucker. I can't talk about the technical aspects of 'em, but P90s definitely have their own sound, unique from single coils or humbuckers.

Single coil vs humbucker amp settings