I'm curious whether they'd fulfill my "snappy, twangy bass string" requirements (never had a chance to play a Firebird yet. That said, Firebird-style mini-humbuckers still have me intrigued - supposedly, those sound like beefed-up Strat single-coils. Pickups will have a lot more effect though. I dont think the thinline part of a thinline tele makes a huge difference in Tele tone-some say none, I dont agree with that either. Sorry, I need my Duane Eddy/Luther Perkins-twang on the low strings, any pickup that kills that snap and twang is incompatible with my playing style! Played a solid body Telecaster with a humbucker in the neck, but I think you can even find a few vids with a single coil. I simply don't get along with that pickup type (not even with Filtertrons, which are said to be relatively single-coil-ish, as far as HBs are concerned) - what I hate so much about them is how the low stings/wound strings (low E, A and D) sound on very single HB-equipped guitar I ever tried, the low strings sounded dull, dry and thuddy, compared to the snappy, twangy, lively, stringy, crisp tones you get with most single coils (some over-wound P90s are almost as bad as humbuckers.) The additional jacket holds a number of Dual Humbucker Thinline Wiring Diagrams together to run them abruptly instead of running 3 or four individual Dual.
#TELECASTER THINLINE SINGLE COIL VS HUMBUCKER PRO#
On all my other humbucker guitars (SG, Cabronita-ish Tele, Gretsch Pro Jet), I replaced the HBs with HB-sized single coils. I've got a humbucker in the bridge position of my 12-string Tele (but use it in the split/single-coil setting most of the time), and I've got a humbucker in my "portable pedal steel" (a lap steel with a Duesenberg Multibender) - but I wired the coils in parallel, instead of in series as with a regular humbucker - those are the only two HB-equipped guitars I own!