#Telecaster neck single coil vs humbucker series

We hope you have enjoyed this series of blogs on best selling Lollar pickups. To learn more about this pickup please follow this link to Lollar Single Coil for Humbucker Rout pickups. The most popular cosmetic choice is the chrome surround with the matte black top. Like we mentioned above, the size and shape of the coil affect the tone. Customers often call and ask if we make a вЂњP-90 for humbucker route.вЂќ We think itвЂ™s important to point out that this pickup sounds very much like a P-90, but itвЂ™s not a вЂњtrueвЂќ P-90. We like to be precise with our terminology when talking about this pickup.

#Telecaster neck single coil vs humbucker install

The main advantage to this pickup is that they offer a chance to install a single coil pickup into an instrument that is routed for full sized humbuckers. For a вЂњnon-standardвЂќ pickup, they are a popular choice. Lollar Single Coil for Humbucker Rout:ДЄnother popular вЂњmiscellaneousвЂќ pickup is our Single Coil for Humbucker Rout. To read more about either of these styles or to listen to sound clips, follow this link to Lollar Jazzmaster pickups. You can also see how these 6 AlNiCo pole piece magnets are set to a radius. Compare this against the 6 individual pole piece magnets of the standard Jazzmaster. You can also see theВ P-90 style bar magnet spanning the full distance alongside the adjustable pole piece screws of the hybrid P-90 / Jazzmaster. You can see the thin Jazzmaster bobbin (1/8вЂі) and the thicker P-90 style bobbin (1/4вЂі). When you look at them from this angle you can really see the differences between the two pickups. This photo shows a side view of the hybrid Lollar P-90 /Jazzmaster (top pickup) and the Lollar standard Jazzmaster (bottom pickup). We make the hybrid P-90 / Jazzmaster in all of the same versions that we build our standard P-90s, including an underwound neck and an overwound bridge.Д¬ompare the Lollar P-90 style Jazzmaster to the standard Lollar Jazzmaster. They are also made using two flat bar magnets вЂ“ just like a P-90. And rather than the fixed AlNiCo pole piece rod magnets of a Jazzmaster, they have the adjustable pole pieces of a P-90.

So essentially, they are a P-90 coil wound onto a Jazzmaster sized bobbin. But the forbon flatwork top and bottom are sized to fit a Jazzmaster sized cover, rather than a P-90 cover. The thickness of the coil and internal construction of the bobbin is actually like a P-90. They are an interesting option to consider if you are looking for a little more midrange and a little fatter tone than our standard Lollar Jazzmaster. To read even more about the unique properties of our Jazzmaster pickups, follow this link to an earlier Lollar pickups blogВ about Jazzmaster pickups and theВ Jazzmaster guitar.ДЄlso worth mentioning are our вЂњhybridвЂќ style P-90 / Jazzmaster pickups. This is part of why they have their own unique tone qualities. This gives it more surface area and allows the pickup to sense the vibrations of a longer length of the strings. For example, the Jazzmaster coil is very short (1/8вЂі) but very wide. They also have a very responsive dynamic range.ДЄs you may already know, the size and shape of a pickup coil affect the quality of the tone it will produce. Overall the Lollar Jazzmaster style pickups have a nicely detailed treble and a bit more midrange and bass when compared to a strat style single coil. Lollar Jazzmaster style pickups are a consistent favorite. In this article weвЂ™ll talk about some of our best selling items that canвЂ™t be classified among the main categories of pickups like strat, tele, and humbucker style pickups.

This is the fifth article in our series about best selling Lollar pickups.