coils or humbuckers?

[patlozrox]

which in your opinion sounds better, coils or humbuckers
I personally like humbuckers better

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4 STRINGS 4 LIFE!!!!

[Liam Wald]

Neither one is better. They are different.
Or is there always supposed to be one of everything that is BETTER?

[Epitaph04]

Seriously. I love the beefy tone of my Bongo's fat bridge humbucker, but I also like the snarly sound of my Jazz bass's singles.

[BassPlayer900]

I really like single coils on my Jazz bass. Although, if I were using MusicMan basses, I'd probably be using humbuckers.

[SGD Lutherie]

Coils? Humbuckers have coils too! Or did you mean single coils?

I like pickups that don't hum, regardless. There are some great sounding hum canceling pickups that sound like single coils. And some great clear sounding humbuckers.

[meatwad]

I was just thinking about this last night... My StingRay has a single humbucker, my Tobias has two soapbar humbuckers, and my Precision has a humbucking split-coil. Not a single bass that I regularly play has one single-coil pickup. Although, my Ibanez RD707 has a P/J combination, and the J is single. It has the crappiest tone of them all, and stays at home for my daughter to play.

[line6man]

The last time I commented in one of these kind of threads, a few people thought I was being rude, but it needs to be said. These kind of questions are far too vague and subjective to be answered. There are an infinitude of ways in which to engineer pickups. With so many variations, it is impossible to make a comparison without some specific info. It's like asking what's better; red wine or white wine? Red and white refer only to the types of grapes used, yet there are thousands of wildly different varieties of wines that use either type of grape. So what sort of qualities are we looking for?

[WillyPop]

Originally Posted by line6man

So what sort of qualities are we looking for?

The one that YOU prefer...

[VanillaThundah]

both

[randysmojo]

Originally Posted by SGD Lutherie

Coils? Humbuckers have coils too! Or did you mean single coils?

I like pickups that don't hum, regardless. There are some great sounding hum canceling pickups that sound like single coils. And some great clear sounding humbuckers.

Agreed. I have Dimarzio Ultra Jazz pickups in my main bass, and they sound great. Really single coil like, but zero hum.

[patlozrox]

Originally Posted by WillyPop

The one that YOU prefer...

THANK YOU!!!
That dude sounded like he just wanted to look smart...

[line6man]

Originally Posted by WillyPop

The one that YOU prefer...

Well then what is the point of the poll?

Originally Posted by patlozrox

THANK YOU!!!
That dude sounded like he just wanted to look smart...

Why don't you just say that directly to me? There is absolutely no use in trying to "sound smart" on the internet. You're surrounded by idiots, but as you as you try to say something intelligent there are going to be people a lot smarter than you watching, and no one has any idea who you are, anyways, for any of it to matter.

[SGD Lutherie]

Originally Posted by line6man

Well then what is the point of the poll?

Validation?

[steamthief]

I prefer a P/J setup to humbuckers.

[dmusic148]

Singles for me. Or a P bass. That's a single-coil, sort of, at least in the way it senses the strings. Unless it's an actual non-split P single, in which case it's an actual single coil.

[daviddouglas]

This is a close poll! But personally I like Humbuckers ♥

[patlozrox]

Originally Posted by steamthief

I prefer a P/J setup to humbuckers.

me too

[patlozrox]

i just put a set of EMG humbucking P/J style in my Ibanez GSR200... Sweet sound...