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One thing I was thinking of doing with my strat is switching the leads from the bridge and middle pickups. The result is that I’d get an in-phase middle position bridge/neck sound like on a tele. I’d give up the out of phase middle/bridge but I consider that the least useful jazz sound.
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10-13-2024 04:50 PM
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Originally Posted by omphalopsychos
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Originally Posted by omphalopsychos
<<< I see John A beat me to it... >>>
You might look at the "Neck-On" switch. It is a simple addition, not a swap or rewire. All it does when you set the switch closed is add the neck pickup directly (its tone control bypassed) to whatever the pickup selector normally does.
With the Neck-On switch "off", all the pickup selection positions are normal
5 Neck
4 Neck + Middle
3 Middle
2 Bridge + Middle
1 Bridge
With the Neck-On switch "on"... special pickup selections
5 Neck (same as normal with neck tone control)
4 Neck + Middle (same as normal with neck and middle tone controls)
3 Middle (neck tone bypassed so "full up", middle tone control)
2 Bridge + Middle (this is all three pickups - neck tone bypassed so "full up", middle tone control, effect on bridge PU depending on if your middle tone control includes the bridge PU or whether the bridge PU bypasses the tone control "old style")
1 Bridge (neck tone bypassed so "full up", middle tone control for bridge, or not if your middle tone control does not include the bridge PU (is bypassed "old style")
Notice the subtle difference between selector position 3 and 4 when the Neck-On switch is on... the pickup selections are the same except with 4 you can turn down the neck tone, with 3 the neck tone is bypassed (so full up like a preset tone adjustment).
It is so simple you can test it out without installing a switch; just two wires leading out from under the pick guard, twist them together, pull them apart...
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Originally Posted by Cunamara
Long ago I've red in Guitar Player some Nashville session player was talking how he approached gigs. He said something like if you go to a country gig, look like a country player, dress and guitar. If you do rock be a rocker, jazz then become a jazzer. Be what people expect you to be, don't stick out like a sore thumb. Useful advice.
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Originally Posted by Stringswinger
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Originally Posted by Hep To The Jive
I was wearing a Napalm Death t-shirt (which, like almost all my band t-shirts, I'd been given at work) and playing my Westone Trevor Rabin signature 80ies super strat with a Floyd Rose licensed tremolo. At that time I had shaved my head for four years. Not a single person did bother.
If you have something to say, people will listen to you. I'm not at the carnival! However, I've never played gigs where I'm just instrumental wallpaper and I do not intend to.
And luckily I've never worked with anyone who was afraid that I'd cut him out, like gay Little Richard kicking Jimi Hendrix out of his band because he was too crazily good-looking. And I do not intend to.
My existence on this planet is not based on the job to please the expectations of others.
This is the second time today I am posting the following:
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
Have something to say and people will listen ...
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
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I believe Ted played a Strat for years... before my time. Lorne used to play a Les Paul and now kind plays a Strat, go figure.
Also one for the picking and sluring into downbeats crowdLast edited by bediles; 10-13-2024 at 11:17 PM.
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I've never been in a situation where I was asked to audition for a band that had a style of dress (including instruments) that differed much from my own. The idea that I would show up looking country with a Tele, well, it still wouldn't take them long to figure out I can't play country music very well.
That said, John 5 said something interesting, as he usually does, in a GP interview. He said that if you get an audition to join an existing, successful band, do this.
1. Get recent live recordings. Learn the songs the way they are currently playing them, not how they did it on the original album, if there was one.
2. Dress the way the band dresses.
The idea is, you come in looking like them and playing the music the way they're playing it. This facilitates the goal of feeling, to them, like a member of the band.
In a separate interview he talked about the financial aspect of making and selling music in this era. Very thoughtful guy. Which, I didn't initially expect when all I knew about him was that he played with Marilyn Manson.
Another thing he said was that when he was on tour he'd check out the music stores in whatever town he was in and book a lesson with their best teacher. He figured he could learn a little something from each. Clever idea. Every player has something worth learning.
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I’m familiar with other options but I’m too lazy to change pots or add switches. I’m fine with my more brutish approach even if it costs me one of the positions. Thanks though!
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Originally Posted by Hep To The Jive
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Originally Posted by rpjazzguitar
EDIT:
1. That is of course neither a strat nor a tele.
2. Does anyone know if Bruce was already dressing as a cowboy (which he actually is as well AFAIK) when he was touring with Barney?
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Originally Posted by Hep To The Jive
Long ago I've red in Guitar Player some Nashville session player was talking how he approached gigs. He said something like if you go to a country gig, look like a country player, dress and guitar. If you do rock be a rocker, jazz then become a jazzer. Be what people expect you to be, don't stick out like a sore thumb. Useful advice.
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Originally Posted by Bop Head
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Originally Posted by omphalopsychos
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On a strat where positions two and four are noise cancelling, installing a series/parallel switch can be useful. The series sound will be a bit thicker/fuller (and louder) than the stock parallel. Have to watch the bass a bit, but it's another sound
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Originally Posted by Stringswinger
They say tone is in the fingers which I usually buy but damned if he doesn't sound Kesselish, Kessely? in that clip. It's almost spooky, that guitar sure wound up w the right person.
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Commercial break
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Originally Posted by Bop Head
Good for you if you are able to look any way you want and work successfully. I always had to be a chameleon both in looks and in my playing to survive.
Oh, and as to your last line, you can have something to say, but if people reject you outright because of your outlandish look, no one will get to listen.
Just my take on struggling to survive as a pro guitarist back in the day.
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Originally Posted by Bop Head
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