guitar with the most pickup combos

Re: guitar with the most pickup combos

blueman335 said:
+1. Even with the 21 sound Jimmy Page system, I bet most guys don't use more than 5 on a regular basis, some guys not even that. There quickly comes a point where additional PU combinations are very similar and therefore useless. Onstage you can't be constantly fiddling with all the switches and knobs, and if you do, you're not focused where you should be: on your playing.
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+3 I have played a Jimmy Page before and my general deal was "meh"

I will say I do find the whole excess for the sake of excess exercise entertaining though, and I'm not gonna poo-poo it. Have fun, enjoy, and yeah…kinda neat to be able to get/do all of that.

I agree that excessive twiddlers on stage are ANNOYING! That said - no one said you needed to play it on stage.
 
Re: guitar with the most pickup combos

Dang I wasn't ready in time for this thread. I want to make a five pickup Strat with a bread board mounted to the outside that allows direct wiring with pins. I want to be able to try unusual combinations of series and parallel, in different orders, in different phases, etc. I don't know how many combinations that would be. No switches and impractical for live use, but since those aren't stipulations...
 
Re: guitar with the most pickup combos

blueman335 said:
+1. Even with the 21 sound Jimmy Page system, I bet most guys don't use more than 5 on a regular basis, some guys not even that. There quickly comes a point where additional PU combinations are very similar and therefore useless. Onstage you can't be constantly fiddling with all the switches and knobs, and if you do, you're not focused where you should be: on your playing.
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Some might disagree, but I don't think series vs. parallel pickup combinations sound different enough to bother messing with, series is just louder and darker, it's not really a whole new voicing. Out of phase everything pretty much sounds bad, and I get better nasal tones just using a wah pedal anyway, so those are out. All said and done, I wire my Strats to do any combo in phase and in parallel, and that's good enough for me.

Part of the reason I want to make the bread board experiment Strat is to see if series and out of phase combos can produce a good tone when wired in away that's usually not possible using a bank of toggle switches alone.
 
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