Making Single-Coil Sound Like Humbucker

sweepy

If you have it wired correctly it will work on all 3 pickups 

thegummy

sweepy said:

If you have it wired correctly it will work on all 3 pickups 

Sorry, do you mean series wiring?

Surely that could only possible work when more than one pickup is active?

stickyfiddle

Has anyone said Rothwell Hot Little Knob yet?

It's a replacement middle tone with a Push-pull that gives you "bridge+middle in series" with the pot acting as an additional filter. Not quite a normal humbucker sound, but a nice addition to fatten a Strat, and keeps everything totally stock when disengaged. 

WezV

Kebabkid said:

Add baseplates to the pickups and add something like an EP Boost or Graphic pedal

Yep.  Baseplates.  It won’t make it sound like a humbucker.  It will push the single coil sound in that direction

JayGee

stickyfiddle said:

Has anyone said Rothwell Hot Little Knob yet?

It's a replacement middle tone with a Push-pull that gives you "bridge+middle in series" with the pot acting as an additional filter. Not quite a normal humbucker sound, but a nice addition to fatten a Strat, and keeps everything totally stock when disengaged. 

Wisdom awarded.

Eldest son has one on his Haar and it’s a very usable, unobtrusive alternative to making holes in an otherwise perfectly good Stratocaster. I really must get one for mine some time...

JayGee

Has anybody mentioned the Clapton active mid-boost yet?

Phil_aka_Pip

JayGee said:

Has anybody mentioned the Clapton active mid-boost yet?

I never understood that. He quit playing Gibsons (IIRC he didn't quit with the LP it got stolen but then went on to an SG or a 335), then decided the Strats he was using didn't sound right, so invents a circuit which attempts to make a Strat sound more Gibson-ish. Why not go back to a Gibson?

thegummy

stickyfiddle said:

Has anyone said Rothwell Hot Little Knob yet?

It's a replacement middle tone with a Push-pull that gives you "bridge+middle in series" with the pot acting as an additional filter. Not quite a normal humbucker sound, but a nice addition to fatten a Strat, and keeps everything totally stock when disengaged. 

This does sound interesting!

Winny_Pooh

Phil_aka_Pip said:

JayGee said:

Has anybody mentioned the Clapton active mid-boost yet?

I never understood that. He quit playing Gibsons (IIRC he didn't quit with the LP it got stolen but then went on to an SG or a 335), then decided the Strats he was using didn't sound right, so invents a circuit which attempts to make a Strat sound more Gibson-ish. Why not go back to a Gibson?

That's what everyone wonders. He did his JJ Cale phase but after that....

thegummy

I don't think all of Clapton's stuff sounds gibson-like, am I mis remembering? It's been a few weeks since I listened to him

ICBM

Winny_Pooh said:

That's what everyone wonders.

Maybe because he preferred the feel of the Strat...