
The pic above isn’t me but it’s my guitar (I’m the guy standing behind him in the background). In this band the 5 way rotary came in handy because we had a bunch of guitar parts that were originally recorded on acoustic and the electric was just too cutting/punchy. The 7 and 9 positions on the rotary scoop out a lot of mids and made the guitar sit back further in the mix, which really worked for those songs and meant that he didn’t need to switch guitars.
That said, I eventually swapped the original Dragon 1 pickups for a JB/Jazz and converted it to a three way switch, which took the guitar from “makes cool sounds but barely gets played” to “gets played every day”. The rotary is cool when you can leave it in one place, but it’s clunky if you switch pickups a lot and hard to turn when your hands are sweaty.
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