What Is The Best Single Pickup Guitar? || The Final Shootout! (... for now)

After first trying a single pickup guitar, I immediately got the appeal, which led me to a journey of trying and comparing various single pickup guitars. So far I’m up to my third Gibson Les Paul Junior (sold the first two), I have an Esquire made by Squier, I’ve had an Epiphone Firebird I and now I finally have the SG Junior I had been looking for since 2021. So it’s time to do the ultimate duel and find out which the current champ is!
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My band 'Nighthawker'
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My side project 'Steven Anthony Band'
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[@ColinD.Wescott]

Seems like all the epiphones made recently are sounding pretty good , someone who is new to guitar would surely be happy with any of the models

[@StevenAnthonyGuitar]

@@ColinD.Wescott I think anyone could be happy with the new Epiphones.

[@poodie2814]

There's just something special about single pickup guitars. For me, it makes me get out of my own way and just play.

[@StevenAnthonyGuitar]

I totally agree!

[@northernmonkey8652]

Go for the most inspiring. Go for the one that plays the best. Fix anything else with a good EQ

[@StevenAnthonyGuitar]

@@northernmonkey8652 I did! Because despite of what I said in this video, I sold two of the three 😜

[@northernmonkey8652]

I just used washers to lift the dogear on my LP junior.

[@StevenAnthonyGuitar]

@@northernmonkey8652 the shim worked and looked great too 😉👌

[@northernmonkey8652]

@@StevenAnthonyGuitar yeah it probably looks better than mine 😆

[@alanturingandthetapes5575]

i have a single pickup guitar (novo solus) and i found detuning it to c# and putting ernie ball mammoths on it allowed it to be a more generalist guitar that could have good rhythm tone and lead tone. in standard with 10s it was extremely harsh to my ears.

[@StevenAnthonyGuitar]

@@alanturingandthetapes5575 didn't it help to just roll down the tone a bit?

[@alanturingandthetapes5575]

@@StevenAnthonyGuitar no, though that did work for some good rhythm sounds on the bridge pickup of a telecaster i used to play, this pickup (some high output fralin) required more. i still have tone down to 3 or so for rhythm parts and turn it up higher for leads. in fact pretty much the whole tone knob spectrum sounds good for different sounds with detune/big strings