Do I need a single-coil guitars to get these tones?

No. GuitarToneAdapt models how a single-coil guitars shapes the sound and compensates so you can get close on your own pickup type and rig — free, in the browser.

What songs used a single-coil guitars?

Hotel California by Eagles, Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd, Layla by Derek & The Dominos, Paranoid by Black Sabbath, Every Breath You Take (Remastered 2003) by The Police, Time by Pink Floyd, Sultans of Swing by Dire Straits, Mayonaise by The Smashing Pumpkins, and more.

single-coil guitars — Songs, Tones & Settings

Songs whose original tone used a single-coil guitars. Don’t own one? GuitarToneAdapt re-creates the sound on the pickup type and rig you actually have.

Single-coils are bright, clear and dynamic, with a lower output that keeps them clean longer and a top end that cuts. They’re the Strat/Tele voice. Because they’re brighter and quieter than humbuckers, a single-coil guitar needs more gain and less treble to hit a humbucker-recorded tone — GuitarToneAdapt re-dials it for you.

Hotel California — Eagles Comfortably Numb — Pink Floyd Layla — Derek & The Dominos Paranoid — Black Sabbath Every Breath You Take (Remastered 2003) — The Police Time — Pink Floyd Sultans of Swing — Dire Straits Mayonaise — The Smashing Pumpkins Hosanna — Hillsong UNITED & Brooke Ligertwood Purple Rain — Prince & The Revolution Creep — Radiohead Bohemian Rhapsody — Queen Breathe (In the Air) — Pink Floyd Come As You Are — Nirvana Iron Man — Black Sabbath Echoes — Pink Floyd Earrings — Malcolm Todd Today — The Smashing Pumpkins Jane! — The Long Faces Flutter — julie Purple Haze — The Jimi Hendrix Experience Slow Dancing in a Burning Room — John Mayer Another Brick In the Wall, Pt. 2 — Pink Floyd Stairway to Heaven — Led Zeppelin Wish You Were Here — Pink Floyd Hey You — Pink Floyd Comfortably Numb — Pink Floyd Rat Salad — Black Sabbath Heartbreaker — Led Zeppelin ความรักทำให้คนตาบอด (ซนซน 40 ปี GMM GRAMMY) — Three Man Down Pride and Joy — Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble Planet Telex — Radiohead Kashmir — Led Zeppelin Bckyrd — Hot Mulligan Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Pts. 1-5 — Pink Floyd Everybody Talks — Ax and the Hatchetmen Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad? — Prince Say It Ain't So (2024 Remaster) — Weezer En la Ciudad de la Furia — Soda Stereo 七月、影法師、藍色、ロッカー — n-buna En la Ciudad de la Furia (Me Verás Volver Gira 2007) — Soda Stereo Ah — Duman Santeria — Sublime Kool Thing — Sonic Youth Hey Jude — The Beatles I Hate It Too — Hum Surreal — Flawed Mangoes Step on Me — The Cardigans Beast of Burden — The Rolling Stones Hey Barbara — IV OF SPADES One More Light — LINKIN PARK Take Me Away (from Freaky Friday) — Lash Lithium — Nirvana Let It Be — The Beatles Comfortably Numb (Live at Pompeii 2016) — David Gilmour Layla — Eric Clapton Can't Stop — Red Hot Chili Peppers Moonlight on the River — Mac DeMarco All I Did Was Dream of You (feat. The Marías) — beabadoobee Knock Me Down — Red Hot Chili Peppers Circus Envy (Remastered) — R.E.M.Summer Of '69 — Bryan Adams *Sobs Quietly* — Mom Jeans.*Sobs Quietly* — Mom Jeans.Ball and Biscuit — The White Stripes Freak Scene (Live, Brixton Academy, London, 8 October 1994) — Dinosaur Jr.Wondering Why — The Red Clay Strays All Along the Watchtower — The Jimi Hendrix Experience Deck Wine — Marietta Teenage Dirtbag — Wheatus Black No. 1 — Type O Negative All Too Well — Taylor Swift Come As You Are — Nirvana Get Down Tonight — KC and the Sunshine Band Decode — Paramore Rape Me — Nirvana 505 — Arctic Monkeys Hunger Strike — Temple of the Dog The Way You'd Love Her — Mac DeMarco Sobredosis de T.V. — Soda Stereo Kryzysowa narzeczona — Lady Pank High Hopes — Pink Floyd Don't Look Back in Anger (Remastered) — Oasis In My Dreams — Dokken Heavy Metal (Takin' a Ride) — Don Felder Planet Caravan — Black Sabbath Today — The Smashing Pumpkins Shine — Collective Soul Bckyrd — Hot Mulligan The Number of the Beast (2015 Remaster) — Iron Maiden Call Me — Blondie Black Sabbath — Black Sabbath Babydoll — Dominic Fike Drown (Edit) — The Smashing Pumpkins Is This It — The Strokes Let Me In (Remastered) — R.E.M.Yellow Ledbetter — Pearl Jam Let It Happen — Tame Impala The Ultimate Sin — Ozzy Osbourne Blvd. Nights — Team Sleep Grace — Jeff Buckley Lenny — Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble Lithium (Live In Amsterdam At Paradiso, November 25, 1991) — Nirvana Speaking With a Ghost — Citizen If I could be a constellation — kessoku band Smoke on the Water (2024 Remaster) — Deep Purple About a Girl — Nirvana Come Together — The Beatles She Loves You (Mono Version) — The Beatles Cárcel, Hospital & Cementerio — Los Tres Portrait of Tracy — Jaco Pastorius Atom Heart Mother — Pink Floyd Oh! Tengo Suerte — Masayoshi Takanaka In Bloom — Nirvana The Emptiness Machine (Instrumental) — LINKIN PARK Celebrity Skin — Hole YUKON (Live Grammy) — Lewis Hanton Projection — Yoshimasa Terui Dogs — Pink Floyd It Smells Like Fudge Axe in Here — Hot Mulligan Day Tripper — The Beatles Senhor e Rei — Davi Sacer & Trazendo a Arca So Far Away — Sultans Of Swing (dire Straits Sound-a-like)Dracula — Tame Impala Pretty When You Cry — Lana Del Rey Under the Bridge — Red Hot Chili Peppers Raise a Hallelujah (Live) — Bethel Music, Jonathan David Helser & Melissa Helser Dios imparable — Marcos Witt Daughter (Remastered) — Pearl Jam Blandest (Demo) — Nirvana Preludio Obsesivo — Rata Blanca Noah's Highlight Reel — Dijon This Is the One (Remastered 2009) — The Stone Roses Hey You — Pink Floyd Steppin' Razor — Sublime Sultans of Swing (Live at Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK, 1983) — Dire Straits So Por Uma Noite — Charlie Brown Jr.Won't Fall in Love Today — Suicidal Tendencies Agora Hills — Doja Cat להיות אדם — Zohar Argov Flick of the Wrist (Live at the Rainbow, London / November 1974) — Queen Desert Rose — Eric Johnson Out Like a Light — The Honeysticks, Ricky Montgomery & Caleb Hurst Cosmic Girl — Jamiroquai Dilerim Ki — Dolu Kadehi Ters Tut Hopelessly Devoted to You — Olivia Newton-John But Me — Ty Myers Ichizu — King Gnu Watch Your Mouth — The Backseat Lovers Ring of Fire — Social Distortion Visita — Enjambre Pretty Girls Make Graves — The Smiths Sola skinner — Jokke & Valentinerne The House Is Rockin' — Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble Stress Relief — late night drive home Mr. Jones — Counting Crows Enhjørning (Remastered 2015) — Dumdum Boys She's a Beauty — The Tubes Plump — Hole ZITTI E BUONI (Eurovision Version) — Måneskin Last Surprise — Lyn Cliffs of Dover (Live) — Eric Johnson Telephones — Vacations Boys Don't Cry — The Cure How You Like Me Now? — The Heavy Beggin' — Måneskin Bad Habit — Steve Lacy Killing in the Name — Rage Against the Machine good 4 u — Olivia Rodrigo Cocaine — Eric Clapton Manhattan — Eric Johnson A Forest — The Cure Just Like Heaven — The Cure Friday I’m in Love — The Cure This Charming Man — The Smiths There Is a Light That Never Goes Out — The Smiths How Soon Is Now? — The Smiths Lonely Boy — The Black Keys Gold on the Ceiling — The Black Keys Tighten Up — The Black Keys Seven Nation Army — The White Stripes Fell in Love with a Girl — The White Stripes The Hardest Button to Button — The White Stripes Don't Look Back in Anger — Oasis Champagne Supernova — Oasis Buddy Holly — Weezer Misirlou — Dick Dale Message in a Bottle — The Police Highway Star — Deep Purple Gimme Shelter — The Rolling Stones Reptilia — The Strokes Brutal — Olivia Rodrigo Last Surprise — Persona 5 What A Beautiful Name — Hillsong Worship Starburster — Fontaines D.C.Wonderful Tonight — Eric Clapton Linger — The Cranberries Black Star — Yngwie Malmsteen All Along the Watchtower — Jimi Hendrix Highway Star — Deep Purple Cliffs of Dover — Eric Johnson Little Wing — Jimi Hendrix Money — Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here — Pink Floyd Voodoo Child (Slight Return) — Jimi Hendrix Pride and Joy — Stevie Ray Vaughan Purple Haze — Jimi Hendrix Sweet Home Alabama — Lynyrd Skynyrd Namus Belası — Cem Karaca Dağlar Dağlar — Barış Manço Machine Gun — Jimi Hendrix Cold Shot — Stevie Ray Vaughan Couldnt Stand the Weather — Stevie Ray Vaughan Red House — Jimi Hendrix Cocaine — Eric Clapton Even Flow — Pearl Jam Cherub Rock — The Smashing Pumpkins All the Small Things — blink-182 Whats My Age Again — blink-182 Scar Tissue — Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way — Red Hot Chili Peppers Snow (Hey Oh) — Red Hot Chili Peppers Last Nite — The Strokes Someday — The Strokes No Woman No Cry — Bob Marley Three Little Birds — Bob Marley Could You Be Loved — Bob Marley Is This Love — Bob Marley One Love — Bob Marley Red Red Wine — UB40 Gravity — John Mayer Smoke on the Water — Deep Purple Voodoo Child (Slight Return) — The Jimi Hendrix Experience Walk Dont Run — The Ventures Super Freak — Rick James Brick House — Commodores Mud on the Tires — Brad Paisley Mama Tried — Merle Haggard Guitars, Cadillacs — Dwight Yoakam

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