State of Epicicity
Fractal Fanatic
Okay, I may be crazy. Okay, if you ask my wife I'm definitely crazy.
But I think the FET Boost might be the secret weapon to get single-coil tone out of a humbucker. Purists may crucify me for saying this, but to my ears, it's a damn good substitute for an actual single-coil, and that's good enough for me.
I have my two humbucker super strat wired so that I have series / parallel / North coil / South coil available for each pickup, and I'm always trying to get Strat tones (hot ones, that is) out of my guitar, but, as the age old lament is, mains hum sucks. I can get wonderfully stratty tones with this wiring when I split to the South coil, which I've positioned to be closest to the neck, but I'm always angling for a hum-free way. I've been dreaming of buying ZexCoil Tribuckers in the future, but let me you, I think now this FET Boost may be all I need. I'm reading tonight that this is a FAS creation, and I'm kicking myself for only coming across this now.
I sometimes go through this seemingly futile cycle of trying different amps and ODs to simulate single-coil tone out of humbuckers, and normally I've just found really disappointing results, so instead I'll just split, roll my tone knob back to simulate a 250K, and deal with the hum. But tonight I put the FET Boost in front of the Triple Crown channel 2 model with my humbuckers in series mode, and holy hellfire, here you go...single-coil tone!
Again, single-coil enough for me, anyway!
Maybe someone else is on this kind of quest too, and if so, I highly recommend this. In addition, that Triple Crown second channel is just a great, very responsive amp, by the way. Channel 3 is maybe my favorite high gain. Bruce Zinky by way of Randall Smith is a pretty great combination.
But I think the FET Boost might be the secret weapon to get single-coil tone out of a humbucker. Purists may crucify me for saying this, but to my ears, it's a damn good substitute for an actual single-coil, and that's good enough for me.
I have my two humbucker super strat wired so that I have series / parallel / North coil / South coil available for each pickup, and I'm always trying to get Strat tones (hot ones, that is) out of my guitar, but, as the age old lament is, mains hum sucks. I can get wonderfully stratty tones with this wiring when I split to the South coil, which I've positioned to be closest to the neck, but I'm always angling for a hum-free way. I've been dreaming of buying ZexCoil Tribuckers in the future, but let me you, I think now this FET Boost may be all I need. I'm reading tonight that this is a FAS creation, and I'm kicking myself for only coming across this now.
I sometimes go through this seemingly futile cycle of trying different amps and ODs to simulate single-coil tone out of humbuckers, and normally I've just found really disappointing results, so instead I'll just split, roll my tone knob back to simulate a 250K, and deal with the hum. But tonight I put the FET Boost in front of the Triple Crown channel 2 model with my humbuckers in series mode, and holy hellfire, here you go...single-coil tone!
Again, single-coil enough for me, anyway!
Maybe someone else is on this kind of quest too, and if so, I highly recommend this. In addition, that Triple Crown second channel is just a great, very responsive amp, by the way. Channel 3 is maybe my favorite high gain. Bruce Zinky by way of Randall Smith is a pretty great combination.