COMBINING RESISTANCE
One day I’ll get the time to research who the first manufacturer was to offer a Strat-style guitar with a bridge humbucker and two single coils. A typical player mod in the 70s, like the same full-sized humbucker in the neck position of a Telecaster, the humbucker-singlesingle HSS concept was simple: to provide some oomph to the Strat’s notoriously weedy bridge pickup, while still keeping that classic neck single coil, a perhaps lessused middle single coil, and two funkier in-between sounds.