pickup positions/tone positions

604bourne123 · #1 01-08-2010, 11:52 PM

three pickups which to use/why you use one or two or three with tone or no tone in between pickup positions a whole lot different sounds what is the guideline.Do you have any particular combinations ?I play a vintage strat.

BigDaddyLoveHandles · #2 01-09-2010, 10:17 AM

Use the neck pickup and get rid of the other two

Alternately, use your ears!

mgoetting · #3 06-20-2010, 05:36 AM

For years I mostly used the neck pup. One of my guitars, a Heritage Golden Eagle, only had one pup, and it sounded great. More recently I've added a little bridge input into my tone and appreciate it.

fivebells · #4 06-20-2010, 09:03 PM

Try asking in Guitar, Amps & Gizmos - The Jazz Guitar Forum

praesentire · #5 07-14-2010, 08:52 AM

On my Ibanez AF75, I started with the neck only but I find that mixing the neck and bridge works for me. I set the volume at 7 for the neck pup and 4 for the bridge pup. I set the tone at 3 for both pups.

On the amp side (VOX Pathfinder 15R), I only use a little gain and a little volume.

604bourne123 · #6 07-14-2010, 09:59 AM

or similiar is okay for me yet humbuckers appeal to the other half the tone is nonetheless the binder of the pickup tones there does't seem to be any question of how pleasing that is.

BigDaddyLoveHandles · #7 07-14-2010, 10:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 604bourne123

or similiar is okay for me yet humbuckers appeal to the other half the tone is nonetheless the binder of the pickup tones there does't seem to be any question of how pleasing that is.

This post is coming off as a little breathless to me. Are you saying that you like both single coil (SC) and humbuckers (HB)? Or is there a question buried in here?

604bourne123 · #8 07-14-2010, 10:27 AM

Hb as you know are on half the guitars in the world which are on half of all recorded music which half the population of the listening world listens faithfully year in and out.Playing with HB s doesn't ring the bell as much as fender does for me

BigDaddyLoveHandles · #9 07-14-2010, 10:35 AM

I started out in the HB camp, then came to love the purity of SC - you can hear the wrappings on the strings. Now I'm somewhere in the middle: chunky single coils (P90, Charlie Christian) and thinner-sounding HBs (mini-HBs).

cosmic gumbo · #10 07-15-2010, 10:49 PM

Don't get too close, it'll magnetize ya...

604bourne123 · #11 07-16-2010, 09:12 AM

I quess the switches go off and on eight single coil pickups

freddy j · #12 07-16-2010, 08:38 PM

looks like it would pull your fillings out, love it, where can i get one? or eight?