Best examples of high gain single coil sounds?

guitarfishbay

Joe Duplantier from Gojira on a Telecaster

3:00 onwards for the chugs and trem picking

https://youtu.be/6xUoOaHzk5s

NelsonP

P90s - Billie Joe Armstrong, Johnny Thunders etc
Jazzmaster single coils - j mascis, troy van leuven etc.
Strat - Simon Neil, hendrix
Tele - tom morello

But generally as the filth level increases, humbuckers are better. I remember Chris Shiflett talking about how single coils just never work in the foo fighters.

Found it, from 2.40 here

Epsilon

Mike Vennart of Oceansize (and also Biffy Clyro live session guitarist) has been known to venture into high gain territory on occasion using strats, teles and jazzmasters.

fretmeister

I have never listened to Biffy Clyro. I will give that a try.

Epsilon

fretmeister said:

I have never listened to Biffy Clyro. I will give that a try.

If you're into heavier stuff check out their song "in the name of the wee man".

TTBZ

fretmeister said:

I have never listened to Biffy Clyro. I will give that a try.

Listen to the song Sunrise. Huge riff and sounds like it's a strat bridge pickup through something beasty.

Also Kings X Dogman was strat wasn't it? I don't think it was until later that Ty Tabor moved to LPs but I could be wrong on that. Cool tone anyway.

Philly_Q

TTBZ said:
Also Kings X Dogman was strat wasn't it? I don't think it was until later that Ty Tabor moved to LPs but I could be wrong on that. Cool tone anyway.

He might have been using the Zion guitar with Joe Barden pickups by then (although not necessarily in the studio).  The first four albums are definitely his Strat Elite but I don't know if the pickups are typical single-coils, the guitar had some kind of active electronics.

Reverend

In the early days of Cathedral, Adam Lehan used a strat, althiugh he left after the first albums.
Greg Anderson uses p90s with Goatsnake, and possibly with Sunn as well. 
Obviously they are a lot heavier than your  average high gain bands.

skullfunkerry

Philly_Q said:

TTBZ said:
Also Kings X Dogman was strat wasn't it? I don't think it was until later that Ty Tabor moved to LPs but I could be wrong on that. Cool tone anyway.

He might have been using the Zion guitar with Joe Barden pickups by then (although not necessarily in the studio).  The first four albums are definitely his Strat Elite but I don't know if the pickups are typical single-coils, the guitar had some kind of active electronics.

He used Yamaha RGXs for a while didn't he? I think around the time of Faith Hope Love? They were definitely humbuckers...

rze99

Ritchie Blackmore Strat into Marshall with Akai tape machine boosting the front end. ref. Live in Japan. 

RonnieHotdogs

Jason Falkner 

TTBZ

The P90'd Revstar sounds awesome here.

Philly_Q

skullfunkerry said:

Philly_Q said:

TTBZ said:
Also Kings X Dogman was strat wasn't it? I don't think it was until later that Ty Tabor moved to LPs but I could be wrong on that. Cool tone anyway.

He might have been using the Zion guitar with Joe Barden pickups by then (although not necessarily in the studio).  The first four albums are definitely his Strat Elite but I don't know if the pickups are typical single-coils, the guitar had some kind of active electronics.

He used Yamaha RGXs for a while didn't he? I think around the time of Faith Hope Love? They were definitely humbuckers...

He had a Yamaha signature model, RGX TT, available in regular or long scale.  That had a Duncan JB and Cool Rails (or perhaps Vintage Rails).  But I think that was later, not sure exactly when but he had short hair by that stage!  Maybe about 2000?

ICBM

This may be completely not what you're thinking of , but I can think of one player who used single coils and high gain - high enough that all playing dynamics and tone variations from the guitar are more or less totally eliminated. And he may have been the very first to do that, as well...


Mike Oldfield.

Not exactly yer conventional high-gain tone or music application, though .

Bezzer

@ICBM why the hell didn’t I think of that!

Him or Chet ...

Greatape

I had posted 'King's X' and in my haste, missed the prior post mentioning them. 

'Dogman' is the obvious one being a dual rec (,I think), but is anything heavier than Ty's strat riffage on the earlier stuff like "We Were Born to be loved'?

guitarfishbay

https://youtu.be/sN13ixEz7XM

Here you go, in drop E (octave below standard), looks like single coils to me!

Redlester

richardhomer said:

Guitar Shop period Jeff Beck

Absolutely. A Rat into a couple of Fender amps I believe. Probably a whole load of studio EQ, delay nd reverb there too, but a great sound. "Where were you" is sublime, and then at the other end of the scale you have "Big Block" which a big, thick Strat tone.  

mbe

Funkfingers said:

Jimi something? You know the one. 

Jimi Kranky?