single-coil

In effects coverage, single-coil pickups are described as sounding thin¹, and many pedals are noted for fattening them up or adding body, heft, and definition²³¹⁴. Some devices are designed to make a single-coil pickup sound more like a humbucker, with a gutsier tone⁵⁶. Single-coil pickups are also cited as a noise source that noise reduction pedals address⁷, and many overdrives and fuzzes are described as working well with both single-coil and humbucking guitars⁸⁹¹⁰.