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Originally Posted by MiG50
It's pretty common for hollow body and semi-hollow body electrics to come with humbuckers, especially if they are inspired by the iconic ES-335. However, it's pretty easy to find some with P-90 or similar soapbar pickups, and Fender has their Thinline Teles with either humbuckers or regular Tele single-coils.
Generally speaking, single-coils tend to be brighter and more midrange-focused, whereas humbuckers tend to be bassier and fuller-sounding. But there is a HUUUGE variation in tones available in both single-coil and humbucker tone, so this is a gross generalization.
As many people have stated, series and passive are not opposites. Pickups can be passive (no power inside the guitar) or active (battery or external power supplied to the guitar). Passive pickups are more traditional and more popular, but active pickups have really important niches to fill. If you have more than one pickup on a guitar at a time, you can wire them in series or parallel. Some guitars (like a 4-way-switch 2-pup Tele) can even pick between series and parallel. Series tends to make for more output and punchier tone, whereas parallel wiring tends to make single coils behave with humbucking characteristics. Really hard to explain, but that's the basics.
If you are trying to make a purchase, and you have some ideas but aren't sure which way to go, it helps to bring that info to the group. Like you seem to want a hollow body (or maybe a semi-hollow body) guitar, and not sure which model or pickups will give you the best tone. What kind of guitars have you been looking for? What kind of tones are you aiming to use? What have you been using so far, and what does/does not work about your current setup? It might be easier for the group to give you useable advice with those sorts of questions.
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I have an Ibanez Artcore AF75. I bought it used and it has a crack on the side of it. It may just be in the gloss finish. I like it very much but for some reason I want to buy a new Ibanez, hollow-body in the $400 to $600 range. I have a Fender Champ 40 amp and I like that too but I've been wanting a tube amp.
It's nothing I need, I just play at home. These are selfish "wants." I just bought a Tascam DR-40 and I'm recording some of my own music in hopes of putting a CD together for family and friends.