


This puts a lot more of the onus on how to manage the sound on you. I think the big thing about single-coils is that they capture a much purer and a much more detailed sort of sound, being as how their output isn't tempered by any hum-bucking of any kind. My only real experience with single-coils is my G&L S500's, and I love the sounds they can make.

Their distorted sounds are brilliantly dirty. I have a set in my '96 Epiphone Les Paul, and they're really crisp and clear. That aside though, I rank pickup types in this order: Single coil vs P90 vs Humbucker isn't a fight that needs fought these days, not since Seymour Duncan gave us the P Rails, which combine all three types of pickup into a single humbucker-size unit.
