Single Coil Sized Humbucker for Strat Bridge

[Mugician]

I hate the look of HSS Strats personally... no offense! I wanna do the whole "Strat" thing, and would love the versatility of the HSS set-up. Do those rail pickups come close? Playing funk and jazz with the the single coils and rock, hard rock with the bridge.

 

[TroubledTreble]

I think the rails have something to offer. I had one that was quite loud. The ones with ceramic magnets go kachunk-chunk fairly well and those mags possibly compensates for their size/config. I think for what you would like to do and play they would be worth the investment.

 

[jackthehack]

An SD single coil form factor JBJr. will do the trick; install it with an on/on/on toggle per the SD wiring diagram to set it to coils parallel/split/coils series for a variety of usable tones.

 

[Alfang]

I agree, i have always played humbuckers, it's just since I joined this forum and refined my taste, that I like 3 singles in a strat, the humbucker in the bridge looks trashy to me now,,

Don't get me wrong, I know it's my perception, and I have no problem with humbuckers in the bridge spot. I built a warmoth for a buddy and we put a SD JB jr in the bridge and it sounded pretty dang good

 

[vtpcnk]

>Don't get me wrong, I know it's my perception, and I have no problem with humbuckers in the bridge spot. I built a warmoth for a buddy and we put a SD JB jr in the bridge and it >sounded pretty dang good

do you remember what was on the neck and middle?

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

Whether they sound good or bad, they never quite sound like the full-sized version, IMO.  I do agree about the "unnatural" look of a fullsized HB in the bridge of a Strat, but sometimes it calls for that.

 

[jay4321]

I can tell you that Hot Rails look every bit as unnatural in a strat as does a humbucker. On a side note, the Cool Rails sound great in all 3 positions. Didn't care for the hot rail that much.

 

[jeffgtr]

One thing you might consider- YJM in bridge-or all positions. Tried them out on an Yngwie strat recently and loved it-good mix between strat-ish and HB -ish. Good bit of chug there, on hand, provided youre plugging into a decent amp to begin with.
I;ve several strats with HB's in the bridge as well as singles,and I find myself-nowdays-leaning back towards singles at the bridge.
But rails can work nice too-considering a set of those for one of my strats also.

 

[jeffgtr]

Ah,forgot to mention- the YJM- dead silent. 100% Does a fantastic job of hum-cancelling without sounding like someone threw a blanket over everything,like so many other stacked-singles/single-sized HBs.
I was able to DIME the master on my 100 watt AOR, take my hands off the strat and face the cabs from 2 ft away and got ZERO noise,hiss,hum,buz or feedback whatsoever.  :icon_scratch: Try that with any standard single-coils....