Do you set your tone to neck or bridge pickup?

Re: Do you set your tone to neck or bridge pickup?

Securb said:
The problem for me is I have very eclectic pickup configurations in a lot of my guitars. I like my guitars to have a wide berth of available tones.
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Goes with the territory if you head down that road.
 
Re: Do you set your tone to neck or bridge pickup?

I usually EQ my cleans on the neck pickup and high gain sounds on the bridge pickup, and work the guitar for crunch sounds out of each.
 
Re: Do you set your tone to neck or bridge pickup?

JeffB said:
Bingo. Find a well matched set and the amp takes care of itself.
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Some of the time yes, but there are a lot of sets that have a bright bridge and a fairly warm neck, like PG's. The worst offender being the 498T/490R pairing. I no longer have absolute confidence in a manufacturer's 'matching' of bridge and neck PU's. Many do it well, but enough haven't, so that I often make my own combinations to suit particular guitars. Even then half the time I'll swap a magnet or two.
 
Re: Do you set your tone to neck or bridge pickup?

Myself, I have my Strat rewired to have a bridge master volume, neck master volume and a tone for both.
 
Re: Do you set your tone to neck or bridge pickup?

Myaccount876 said:
What some people do is actually set the tone for their neck pickup, and have the pickup levels different: the bridge pickup set louder so it can act as a boost for solos. Ideally you would want similar sounding pickups.

I think this is actually what Tony Iommi does, or at least used to do. Hey a Gibson switch chip does say "Rhythm" for the neck pickup and "Treble" for the bridge pickup.
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This is correct.
I've actually been sorta trying this lately (since my band's music is pretty "stonerish" :firedevil)


I've been thinking about getting a Jazz/59 hybrid with an A4.
Do y'all think this pup would have enough oomph and volume to be able to handle a high-ish gain rhythm? (the A3/A5 Mean 90 is a bit too low output)
 
Re: Do you set your tone to neck or bridge pickup?

I like to set to the neck pickup. Get a good, syrupy tone that's not muddy. Then when I hit the bridge pickup, if it is too bright or shrill, I'll roll down the tone knob a tad.
 
Re: Do you set your tone to neck or bridge pickup?

blueman335 said:
Some of the time yes, but there are a lot of sets that have a bright bridge and a fairly warm neck, like PG's. The worst offender being the 498T/490R pairing. I no longer have absolute confidence in a manufacturer's 'matching' of bridge and neck PU's. Many do it well, but enough haven't, so that I often make my own combinations to suit particular guitars. Even then half the time I'll swap a magnet or two.
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Since when is a 498/490 a well matched set?

I have had no troubles at all with PG set in 3 guitars from a mismatch in EQ standpoint :shrug:
 
Re: Do you set your tone to neck or bridge pickup?

blueman335 said:
It's a set, not particularly well-matched. Lind of like the Odd Couple.
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I know, but if you are gonna quote me Rick,.at least read what I said :bigthumb: ...in this case I said "well matched"
 
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