HH vs HSH

[PrinceAlice]

I'm in favor of the HSH set-up....But, that's because I've got my eyes set on an Ibanez S470DXQM right now ....And I do have plans for those PUPs.

[Tom Gilroy]

Originally Posted by ken_r152

The Stratocaster S-S-S setup is nice, although I can't think of many people who use the single coil neck pickup. Maybe just SRV and Eric Johnson.

I'd say just about every Strat player who likes a thick blues tone would use it.

[waylay00]

Originally Posted by Tom Gilroy

I'd say just about every Strat player who likes a thick blues tone would use it.

Yeah, if anything, I think it would be harder to find players who use the single coil bridge pickup moreso than the neck pickup.

But the list of people who use single coil neck pickups is big:

Trower
Hendrix
Clapton
SRV
(and every other blues rock player, Buddy Guy, etc...)
Eric Johnson
Timmons
Vinnie Moore
Yngwie
Paul Gilbert nowadays

Although some of the latter use single coil humless pickups, the tone is still gnerally single coil-ish.

[Mr.WizardNeck]

I prefer HH greatly over HSH due to my love of combining the sou dof both humbuckers into a nice sweet sound. For me it's all out distortion on the bridge pickup which is great for leads or a nice chugga chugga but then if I want to go smoother, I switch to the in between and use both. All that's left is the neck for only cleans which works out well. Coil splitting is fun .

[Satchriossi]

the middle single coil always gets in the way of my pick so its H-H all the way for me

[axemanrio]

All my guitars have been HH until I bought a Prestige, but that's changed now Coil-tapped, I get more usable tones than a mid pickup, and I had a Blue Velvet before I modified my RG to HH.

[RG1820X]

I used to only play H-H's until I bought a HSH and fell in love with the tone options.

[kotornut]

I'm a an HSS or H-S guy myself but I don't really find all the split tones that useful so I guess I like HH better. Of course, if I wanna do some SRV or some blues I find the split neck and mid single coils useful on an HSS but not the neck hum and mid single of a HSH config guitar. HH certainly looks beter to me.

[BozTheK]

HSH for me. I really don't use the middle positions much, but everytime I do I get some good tones out of them.

[Davidmurry222]

HH for me. I personally find configurations using the middle pickup useless.

never thought about it until now, but I traded my S470 for an rga121 (HSH to HH) and my strat for a tele (sss for ss- ditch that middle)

[Tubarão Guitars]

H-H
5 way switch for me.

[CalledToArms]

i love the way HSH looks so even though I dont use the single coil on my S's I get HSH configs haha

[Crazy_Guitar]

Altough I fell in love with the versatility of the HSH, the single-coil gets in the way of my picking. HH with a super-5-way switch also gets the job done.

So... HH. HSH only when extremely necessary.

[CalledToArms]

well since I use the the HSH with only the 2 Humbucker's wired in I just pack the single coil down as far as I can (ie basically flush with the body) so I still have the look and it doesnt get in the way :P

[Real_Illusions]

I really like both HH and HSH. Never had a HSS guitar, and only one SSS guitar which was my first guitar (which was the strat copy that everyone has had lol)

I love the pickups in my Les Paul, they are both Seymour Duncan Alnico Pro IIs, and I never use the middle position.. always bridge or neck.

For my Ibanez guitars, being a Jem and a modified RG which has PAF Pros in it, I never use the single on its own, but single with bridge gives the best clunky funky tone ever. Clean, single and neck is just liek the neck humbucker but way less boomy, so i use that a lot.

I shall eventually invest in guitars with the other two configurations as they may end up being what i like more.