Middle pickup love

[Juanhanglo]

Re: Middle pickup love

I could even go without a middle pickup, like Ritchie's sig Strat.

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That just looks wrong! I'd need a dummy at least, to ease my mind.



I just put a freeway 6way tele switch in my strat. It works well with a Clapton circuit.

N, N+B, B on one bank and
N/M, M, M/B on the other.

It's just a more logical layout for the way I use the pickups.

I use the middle pickup alone more often since the switch change, oddly.

 

[playas]

Re: Middle pickup love

My strat style is hss so for me it's more important than the bridge "single".
I definitely use it.

I also have a scratch-plate setup for HS and I really miss the middle single [emoji2958]

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[PFDarkside]

Re: Middle pickup love

That just looks wrong! I'd need a dummy at least, to ease my mind.



I just put a freeway 6way tele switch in my strat. It works well with a Clapton circuit.

N, N+B, B on one bank and
N/M, M, M/B on the other.

It's just a more logical layout for the way I use the pickups.

I use the middle pickup alone more often since the switch change, oddly.

How reliable are the freeway switches?

 

[Mincer]

Re: Middle pickup love

How reliable are the freeway switches?

I haven't heard good things. Several people here have complained about them failing within a year or so.

 

[DavidRavenMoon]

Re: Middle pickup love

Middle humbuckers get in the way of picking. Not so much with single coils.

My main stage guitar is SSH, with the two singles being small humbuckers. I almost never use the middle pickup by itself. But I’m also not a fan of that 2 or 4 Strat quack. It’s just not a tone I like.

I put an extra bright pickup in the middle though, so I can get a more single coil sound compared to the 16k bridge humbucker. I only use it on a part of one song my band plays. lol.

I might make a new pickguard and remove the middle pickup.


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[Mincer]

Re: Middle pickup love

Even middle Strat pickups get in the way of my hybrid approach. Pulling your nails back while you pick isn't a fun feeling.

 

[DavidRavenMoon]

Re: Middle pickup love

Even middle Strat pickups get in the way of my hybrid approach. Pulling your nails back while you pick isn't a fun feeling.

Yes, I use hybrid picking on some songs. I have to plant my hand between the middle and bridge pickups.


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[Lewguitar]

Re: Middle pickup love

I could even go without a middle pickup, like Ritchie's sig Strat.

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The magnets in vintage Strat pickups really pull on the wound steel strings, affect the way they ring and pull them out of tune.

Strat-itus.

A Strat will ring more "purely" and play more in tune, especially higher up the neck, with one less pickup.

 

[Gtrjunior]

Re: Middle pickup love

I could even go without a middle pickup, like Ritchie's sig Strat.

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I can get on board with this. I’m not really a fan of middle pickups. I don’t care for the sound and it gets in the way of picking.
I like the sound of the middle paired with the neck pickup but I prefer no middle at all.

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: Middle pickup love

I can get on board with this. I’m not really a fan of middle pickups. I don’t care for the sound and it gets in the way of picking.
I like the sound of the middle paired with the neck pickup but I prefer no middle at all.

I like combining it with the neck pickup and that's the only reason I have a middle pickup on my Strats.

 

[PFDarkside]

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I haven't heard good things. Several people here have complained about them failing within a year or so.

I thought I remembered reading things to this effect.

 

[Mincer]

Re: Middle pickup love

I can get on board with this. I’m not really a fan of middle pickups. I don’t care for the sound and it gets in the way of picking.
I like the sound of the middle paired with the neck pickup but I prefer no middle at all.

The other cool thing about this guitar is that it has a set neck.

 

[billlorentzen]

Re: Middle pickup love

If your amp isn’t too bright, the middle can do a lot of what the neck usually does. I had an SSS with EMG SAs in which the middle was my main pickup, because I could change channels without even needing to change pickups.

 

[spi]

Re: Middle pickup love

My usual Strat setup is a tone for the neck, the other for the bridge, and none on the middle, but I think I’m gonna leave the neck without one.

I like using the middle pickup too. This switching might work out well, I usually don't touch the tone on the neck.

 

[Erlend_G]

Yeah, i miss the middle pickup, in my 2xP90 Epiphone Wildkat

... was considering to route/install one, but I don't want to ruin that nice KOA lmt.ed. top .

I think I'll just place some "piezo disc" pickups underneath the top- just in the middle, between the pickups. And have a switch or vol-pot for it .

-Erl

 

[donaldr]

Re: Middle pickup love

I could even go without a middle pickup, like Ritchie's sig Strat.

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I have a similar version of a Strat: Neck and Bridge pickup only and a 3-way switch. But with a dummy middle pickup

 

[donaldr]

Love the middle pickup on one of my Strat and also on my Godin Exit 22 with EMG 60/S/S set.

 

[Clint 55]

You prefer the extra string pull?

 

[JB_From_Hell]

You prefer the extra string pull?

I use action high enough to play slide and at least 10-48 strings on my Strats. Unless you have the pickups super close to the strings, it really doesn’t matter. That sounds like crap anyway, so whatever.

I spend a lot of time playing mandolin. The most poorly setup electric guitar with super light strings laying on the frets and a nut made of styrofoam has infinite sustain by comparison.

 

[Clint 55]

Sorry, I was just making a joke to donaldr who has his middle pickup in the guitar but not connected.