Adventures In Single Pickup-land??

[beaubrummels]

What am I missing on the single pickup adventure?

Simplicity. Focusing on music and hand technique, you against the strings to make all the sounds; less on gear and settings.

 

[alex1fly]

Simplicity. Focusing on music and hand technique, you against the strings to make all the sounds; less on gear and settings.

I'm wondering about getting over the hump of missing the neck pickup. So spend more time with a single pickup guitar, then? Force yourself to do it and see what you come up with?

 

[beaubrummels]

I'm wondering about getting over the hump of missing the neck pickup. So spend more time with a single pickup guitar, then? Force yourself to do it and see what you come up with?

I was like you until I bought a melody maker with one pickup and immediately upon playing it discovered that by simply shifting my strumming hand from over the bridge pickup to where a neck pickup should be yielded warmer, near-neck tones, and everything in between. Playing became all about the hands. It is surprising how many different sounds you can get moving your hands around, changing from pick, flat to the strings or edge at an angle, to bare finger, to tapping to, strumming near the bridge, strumming near the neck, even strumming over the neck itself. The single pickup just becomes a full-range bright microphone to pickup everything you are doing.

You don't have to buy a guitar. Just remove the neck pickup from one you have to try it.

 

[zionstrat]

I can't say that I've ever had a single pickup guitar. May have to try it one of these days.

But I do know that we're having a great gig when I realize I haven't made any control changes in the last 10 minutes



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