We've hardly covered everything there is to know about single coils and humbuckers - but I hope this brief overview was helpful.
Of course, neither application is wrong, but its my hope that you can see where each kind of pickup really shines. This guitar is the Reverend Sensei LE 2016. Think that's a great tone? Why would anyone want humbuckers? Here's a tone you simply can't get with single coils. Here's a short video example of what I mean, featuring the Reverend Six Gun. A clean Strat through very little (if any) processing is a very good example of single coil tone. I'm willing to bet that many guitarists will agree with me when I say that early Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits) is one of the quintessential single coil sounds. The style of music you're playing, and your choice of amplifier and/or pedals can greatly dictate which kind of pickup is more appropriate for the tone you're chasing. Just like Pepsi vs Coke, or in this case, Diet Coke vs Jack Daniels (or as I like to say Diet Coke and Jack Daniels) it's a matter of personal taste. Does that mean humbuckers are better? Not necessarily. OK, so single coils are noisier than humbuckers & and less powerful. For the sake of our discussion, we're going to compare regular single coils and regular humbuckers. While its worth mentioning that some single coil pickups are noise free, and some humbucking pickups are stacked vertically - for today's lesson we're not going to dive that deeply into those tangents. Traditional humbuckers sit in your guitar with the coils next to each other, which also means that more area of string vibration is being "picked up". A humbucking pickup is a double-coil design, resulting in a noise (hum) canceling (bucking) design and a higher output. True single-coil pickups are succeptible to noise, most often associated with 60-cycle hum caused by routine electricity.
When shopping for a Reverend guitar, many of our customers ask - "what's the difference between single coils and humbuckers"? In terms of construction, a single coil pickup is just that - a single coil that picks up the vibrations of the string above it, that's passing through its magnetic field.
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