To give you some ideas of what this little amp will do wiith humbuckers. It nails Billy Gibbons tone with the harmonics, Ronnie Montrose' s Get on your Bad Motor Scooter, Joe Walsh's Rockey Mountain Way, and the nasty tone ( I mean that in a good way) of Neil Young. It is the first amp that I have ever heard nail Santana's orgional Abraxas tone, although it did that with a guitar that had origional 1959 PAF's. And it is all over Clapton's and Buddy Guy's tone with a Strat. I do prefer it with the humbuckers.
I admit I am a lover of tweed amps and I think that most other amps that need a pedal need the pedal becuse the player has the tweed sound deep in his soul with out knowing it. Again let me qualify that by saying blues and rock playes. If you love triple rectifiers or you want to move a ton of air you would not like this amp. I loved huge loud amps for a long time and now my ears are ringing and I 'm paying the price. I finally realized the a really killer singers voice is not loud but it can run through the PA and reach lots of people. Same with a great amp, it only need a killer voice and a good sound system to get it to reach alot of people with out destroying everyone. Check Frank Zappa play Black Napkins on youtube with a Pignose. On the Mike Douglas show no less. Love it.