Middle Pickup Picking..

[y2stevo]

When your picking on a guitar with a middle pickup at it's (according to the duncan instructions anyway)Optimal height at about 3/16" from the strings do you pick "over" the pickup? e.g. does the pick pick the strings directly above where the middle pickup is?

If so did you develop a picking style where the pick doesn't 'dig' deep into the strings or have you just always picked that way?

i ask because ever since I've had the Lil demon/duck/cool rails combo in my strat anytmie I try picking 'over' the middle pickup the pick always hits off it at mabye every 2nd or 3rd stroke, and I also can't help thijnking that if I spent a week or 2 trying to train my hand to pick in a way that doesn't 'dig' as deep that I could pick in a more pelaxed and so more efficient manner..


and thoughts??


thanks :eek13: :6: :amish:

 

[Tux789]

Re: Middle Pickup Picking..

i kinda pick half way between the middle and bridge pickup myself

 

[75lespaul]

Re: Middle Pickup Picking..

I think it may depend on what kind of guitar you learned on. I always had some kind of humbucker guitar with the typical two pickups so I strummed and picked right in the middle where there is no pickup. Now that I play strats a lot 26 years later, I'm always buzzing that middle pickup with the pick, lol. As with anything, I ignored it and now it seems to have stopped all by itself, although where I actually pick and strum is in the same place.