Ed O'Brien of Radiohead has a sustainer-type pickup fitted to his signature Strat - it has to be heard to believed! Sustainers - Companies like Fernandes provide pickups that use a different combination of strong magnets and high output to create an infinite sustain effect.For info on ordering custom pickups click here. This often means extra attention to detail and unique tone that you can truly call your own. Custom Pickups - Many manufacturers offer made-to-order pickups, handwound and with materials of your choosing.Hybrid Pickups - Some more specialist pickups use more than one type of coil, pole or material in their design, allowing you to attain unique sounds and an unusual look too! See the Reverend Reeves Gabrels Signature for a killer example!.Hot Rails - Are you after a fatter, warmer sound but stuck with a single coil guitar? Hot Rail pickups are single coil-sized humbucking pickups, and are available in various forms from most pickup manufacturers!.Because they’re single coils, P90s are prone to the same noise issues - but just like other single coils, various companies also make noiseless versions to counteract this. It’s a great choice for alternative, punk, country and blues, goes great with slide guitar, and is even suited to styles like vintage metal: flip to the neck pickup of a P90-loaded guitar and play Black Sabbath’s “Paranoid” to see what I mean. P90s are also a type of single coil pickup, but it’s larger than a Strat-style pickup and its sound is warmer, thicker, and grittier. Popular configurations include a humbucker in the bridge position with single coils in the middle and neck spots, humbuckers in the bridge and neck with a single in the middle, or a single coil in the bridge position of a Telecaster with a humbucker in the neck position. In some cases, you'll see single coils and humbuckers in the same guitar. Bare Knuckle, Fishman, EMG, Seymour Duncan and more all make humbuckers ranging from vintage-style, to high-gain metal monsters. Gibson guitars are closely associated with the humbucker as their iconic models, such as the Les Paul, SG, and ES-335, all use them. And the softer, smoother tone of humbuckers makes them great for jazz as well, especially if you use a humbucker in the neck position on a big hollow-body guitar. Humbuckers are great for heavier styles like classic rock, hard rock and metal, and they can add some toughness and raunch to blues too. The hum is cancelled out by the two different coil directions (hence the name 'hum-bucker'), and the overall tone is generally thicker, louder, warmer and fuller than single coils. The idea behind humbuckers is to use two separate pickup coils, each wound in a different direction, over a central magnet. Single coils are great for country, blues, indie and alternative styles.
Various noiseless single coils are available from companies like Fender, DiMarzio, and Seymour Duncan. Others want to get rid of it, and simply enjoy the pristine single coil sound minus the hum. Some players swear by this excess noise, as it evokes a vintage sound. But single coils have a drawback: you’ll notice a bit of background buzz which is just part and parcel of the single coil experience. A cover is usually placed over the pickup to protect the wire. This type of single coil pickup is made by wrapping wire around six ‘slug’ pole pieces (which are held in place by flatwork to create a bobbin). Single coils (like you might find on a Fender Telecaster or Stratocaster) have a clear, twangy sound, and they tend to sound really great through a clean, un-distorted amp setting.
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