Which pickup config should i go for in my RAN, i have a guitar with a H-S-S, and a H-H, and i prefer the first, but im not sure what the difference will be tone-wise, bearing in mind i'm having passive SD's and not EMG's.

Any advice/words of wisdom would be greatful

I have always enjoyed H-H and H-S-H the best. S-S-H is nice too though but I always thought it sounded beter for clean stuff. You could get a H-S-H with the neck pup having a coil tap. Then you would have a H/S-S-H. The best of both worlds

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I was thinking along the lines of the coil tap method, only i hadn't thought of coil tap.... i was just thinking that if i got H-S-H, then i could fit a single coil in the humbucker slot because it would be big enough

HSH .. then lower the Single coil as far down as possible so you dont hit it when you pick..

It just gets it the way and offers no useful tones.

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serious?

some of my favorite clean tones are off of my ibanez's(yeh shed guitars) middle single coils.... they're underneath the the strings so they don't get in the way for me.

they're just so round and punchy sounding, perfect for clean sounds. and the placement is just right... single coils in the bridge can be to bright and brittle sometimes. whilst single coils in the neck can be a bit to dark and mucky(same with humbuckers in the neck).

my .02 usd

to me, if you want a fat lead tone for high gain styles. you gotta go

h-h-h
h-s-h
or plain ol' h-h

as long as the neck pu is a humbucker.

but if you plan on switching to the neck pu and actually playing chords... i say single coils are better. because the location of the pickup makes it warmer and fatter, while the pickup it'sself is actually thinner in sound(provided your bridge pu is a humbucker)

i don't know where i'm going with this exactly... but i like hss or hsh the most.

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I have an H-S-S and i've played H-S-H too. I agree with BLS here. My next guitar will just be plain H-H.

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Ok, thanks for your input chaps Another quick question: Is there any reason why i would want to coil tap a SH-10 in the bridge, or shall i just have the Hot Rails and the Jazz Model with the coil tap switch?

dont u have to coil tap all pickups? - as theres only one tone pot. i find the middle pickup in the h-s-h is useless and just gets in the dam way. unless your into really twangy sounds...

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