Four guitar pickup shootout: single coils vs P90s vs mini humbuckers vs humbuckers!

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Four guitars, 30 riffs, 120 sounds to compare!

I shot out my 2014 Fender Telecaster (single coils), my 2020 Epiphone SG Classic Worn in Inverness Green (P90s), the exquisite - and sadly not mine! - Tonfuchs Dyna (mini humbuckers) and my 2014 Epiphone Les Paul Traditional Pro!

This video came about when I realized I had four guitars at home, all with two pickups of different types, so I decided I’d play a bunch of riffs through all of them so we can see how they sound compared to one another.

Here’s all the riffs and the different video parts:

00:00 Hello!
00:24 All about the guitars and the shootout!

Clean Channel
02:41 Strummed G chords on all three pickup settings
04:19 Country picked riff (bridge pickup)
04:52 Soul rhythm lick (middle pickup)
05:34 Indie rhythm barre chords (bridge pickup)
06:36 Strummed atmospheric pop chords (middle pickup, reverb)
07:40 Strummed indie chords (middle pickup, reverb)
08:38 Picked pop chord arpeggios (middle pickup, reverb)
09:45 60s soul picking (neck pickup, reverb)
10:26 Lead notes and ringing chords (neck pickup, reverb)

Clean Channel with Greer Lightspeed boost
11:03 Hendrix-esque rhythm lick (neck pickup, reverb)
11:43 Kings Of Leon-esque indie rock (bridge pickup)
12:43 Choppy barre chord rhythms (middle pickup)

Crunch Channel
13:22 Indie rock rhythm chords (bridge pickup)
15:09 Open string indie rock riff (bridge pickup)
15:55 It’s A Long Way To The Top classic rock chords (bridge pickup)
17:00 Classic rock rhythm (bridge pickup)
18:00 Airbourne-esque classic rock riff (bridge pickup)
18:49 AC/DC-esque rhythm (bridge pickup)
19:55 Another AC/DC-esque rhythm (bridge pickup)
20:55 Indie picked chord arpeggios (bridge pickup)
21:28 Alternative rock chords (bridge pickup)
22:22 Southern rock melodic lead (bridge pickup, reverb)

Lead Channel
23:14 Hard rock rhythm (bridge pickup)
24:25 One By One Foo Fighters-esque riff (bridge pickup)
25:28 Classic hard rock/glam rock rhythm (bridge pickup)
26:38 Green Day-esque pop punk riff (bridge pickup)

Lead Channel with Greer Lightspeed boost - Drop D tuning
27:24 Cancer Bats-esque hardcore punk riff (bridge pickup)
28:17 Hardcore punk rhythm (bridge pickup)
29:03 Chugging power chords (bridge pickup)
29:49 Mastodon-inspired metal rhythm (bridge pickup)
30:31 Ascending melodic riff (bridge pickup)

31:23 My initial conclusion - right after playing all the riffs!
34:02 Final conclusion - after editing it all together
40:00 And... if I could only have one, which guitar would I pick?

Phew!

Here’s some links to the guitars for you. They don’t make my exact Tele and Les Paul models any more, so I’ve linked to the most common current models:

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Fender Telecaster:
Epiphone 2020 SG Classic Worn in Inverness Green:
Tonfuchs Dyna:
Epiphone Les Paul:
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The guitars all ran through a Greer Lightspeed overdrive pedal and my Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200 head. That went from the Red Box DI straight into my Focusrite Scarlett 2i4, which went into Logic Pro X. That's it. No post-processing on the sounds was done.

Here’s some affiliate links to those bits of gear:

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H&K Black Spirit 200 head:
Greer Lightspeed:
Focusrite 4i4 (this is the newer equivalent of my 2i4, which they don’t make any more!):
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Enjoy!

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Backing music from the YouTube Audio Library: Turtleneck - TrackTribe and Dusty Fingers - DJ Williams.

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