better to get the body and neck you want and upgrade pickups than to buy a guitar with the pickup configuration you want but which has bad tone and/or playability.
if the SSS sounds and plays better but you want a humbucker (or vice versa) you can always look at upgrading the pickups later on. Someone already gave some good advice - play them both and get the one you like best. Sounding (and looking) a lot like our Antiquity II Surfers. Pickups were tweaked slightly in the 1960’s for a little less treble, and it complemented the rosewood fretboards available at the time. Within this design, there can be a few variations, though. We may even talk about Leo Fender, and the two little known Guitar Companies he founded before he died (Neither of these companies are Fender.) Guitar Pickups.
What sort of music do you play? I play alot of rock where I prefer a bridge humbucker for overdriven sounds and use the neck and middle single coils for cleaner parts, making HSS perfect for me. These are the sounds of lower ( vintage) output single coils. some (me) regard them as a best of both worlds pickup. Lakland Vintage Hot J5 5-String Single Coil Bass Pickups.
#Are bass guitar single coil vs humbucker full
If you go with HSS and decide at any point decide you want a change from the humbucker you can put a humbucker sized P90 in the H position which will give you a fatter more powerful singlecoil sound without being a full blown humbucker. Chi-Sonics can also be built using Alnico V magnets as well, for those that prefer a more. Colors were now Carrera SPX offered two humbuckers with a coil midnight blue, metallic black, purple tap switch. I have a HSS strat which I love to death. I hate the sound of weak, thin bridge pickups for the style of music I play which involves alot of mid to heavy overdrive sounds.
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