I'm putting together a fender jaguar and don't know if i should go with the original single coil pickups or get some humbuckers. How will the single coils deal with overdrive|||Just as with clean playing, you won't notice much difference in single and double coils (humbuckers) in relation to overdrive until you are using more than one at a time, as the tone is different across the length of the body of the body.
One issue is the lack or selection in single coil pick-up. Where you can get humbuckers for almost any sound you desire, there are very few types of single coils.
Also Active vs. Passive, if you want active you'd probably be going with humbuckers, i've heard terrible things about active single coils.
There is quite a bit of technical differences between the two options, but in the end you'll find not much difference in sound. It'll depend a lot more on what you are using for your overdrive.
I personally prefer humbuckers, but try listening to different artists who use each, and audio/video reviews. But to answer the main question, you'll probably never have a complaint about your overdrive either way, at least not due to your pick-ups.
As an interesting side note, many companies make split coil humbuckers, kind of a hybrid of the two, so that you can turn off either coil. Not cheap, but neat!
Keep rockin'!
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