Neck or Bridge for crunchy distortion and palm muting?

[greendy123]

I just wanted your guys take on using the neck or bridge for these type of sounds and what you guys prefer. I like using my bridge for more crunchier, defined, tighter palm muting. The neck works too, its more for a thicker sound, it may be just my settings and gear, but there's just less crunch there.

For the neck and bridge option I actually meant it to be not neck or bridge, but both the neck and bridge on at the same time.

 

[bloodswords]

Re: Neck or Bridge for crunchy distortion and palm muting?

circumstancial. but most of the time i'll go for thick, distortion laden rhythm in the bridge. the neck is reserved for solos but i do solo in the bridge at times.

 

[greendy123]

Re: Neck or Bridge for crunchy distortion and palm muting?

circumstancial. but most of the time i'll go for thick, distortion laden rhythm in the bridge. the neck is reserved for solos but i do solo in the bridge at times.

Yeah same for me, I find that soloing in either neck or bridge both sound great.

 

[Jeff5]

Re: Neck or Bridge for crunchy distortion and palm muting?

Bridge always for me.

 

[Mewmender]

Re: Neck or Bridge for crunchy distortion and palm muting?

Bridge for rhythm, neck for solos

 

[ksmith63]

Re: Neck or Bridge for crunchy distortion and palm muting?

since i built my 4x8" sub extension, the neck pup works the subs great while the bridge keeps the defenition. Makes me wonder why we still have a bass player....

 

[Willis]

Re: Neck or Bridge for crunchy distortion and palm muting?

I don't use neck pickups on humbucker equipped guitars, and that's usually what I use for crunchy distortion and palm muting with distortion.

 

[D-EJ915]

Re: Neck or Bridge for crunchy distortion and palm muting?

If the 7 string duncan design neck didn't sound like an abomination then I might use it, but the bridge is at least half-decent, so it gets all my use although its metal sound is likeable to dani filth, which of course, is the worst possible thing ever.

I mean, would you like the sound of your pickup to be like this:

I guess that was his high school senior picture "casual" shot, hahaahahaha

 

[DeadSkinSlayer3]

Re: Neck or Bridge for crunchy distortion and palm muting?

EWWW DANI FILTH AND HIS ONSLAUGHT OF HARRY POTTER METAL! DISGUSTING!


Bridge, for sure. I use the neck for cleans and most leads.

 

[Kommerzbassist]

Re: Neck or Bridge for crunchy distortion and palm muting?

For really fat distorted palm mutes you can't beat the neck, but when I you just play "normal" sstuf, the bridge usually has more bite...

 

[Forbes]

Re: Neck or Bridge for crunchy distortion and palm muting?

For 'cruncy distortion and palm muting' i can't see how the neck would ever be better than the bridge, unless there were vastly different pickups in the guitar that made it this way, but 99.9% of the time i would expect the bridge to be far superior for the cruncy and mutes.

 

[Zerberus]

Re: Neck or Bridge for crunchy distortion and palm muting?

EWWW DANI FILTH AND HIS ONSLAUGHT OF HARRY POTTER METAL! DISGUSTING!


Bridge, for sure. I use the neck for cleans and most leads.

+1

For palm muting and Chugging definitely bridge.. the tone will always get "flabbier" and more bass laden as you go towards the neck, bot of which ar counterproductive in most situations

 

[Davey]

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bridge...

and since i only got 1 hum in my fusion at the time, i cant use anything else anyway...

counting on puting a singlehum rhoads in the arsenal by the end of the year too..




so, you get the idea

 

[JB_From_Hell]

Re: Neck or Bridge for crunchy distortion and palm muting?

EWWW DANI FILTH AND HIS ONSLAUGHT OF HARRY POTTER METAL! DISGUSTING!


Bridge, for sure. I use the neck for cleans and most leads.

Hey... I like Cradle AND Harry Potter

I agree about the pickup thing, though.

 

[CronoDL]

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Bridge definitely.

 

[jony]

Re: Neck or Bridge for crunchy distortion and palm muting?

Bridge.

 

[Animal]

Re: Neck or Bridge for crunchy distortion and palm muting?

Bridge always for thick crunchy distortion and palm mutes.

I don't know how you could ever use the neck pickup for that stuff, it's too flabby and rounded. I find the neck is better for cleans and some leads.

 

[Adam]

Re: Neck or Bridge for crunchy distortion and palm muting?

I'm a bridge kid straight up, but I sometimes go for that neck pickup for those fatter sounds, but majority of the time whenever I play clean I hit the middle pickup, I find it more versatile on my strat.

 

[Kommerzbassist]

Re: Neck or Bridge for crunchy distortion and palm muting?

Bridge always for thick crunchy distortion and palm mutes.

I don't know how you could ever use the neck pickup for that stuff, it's too flabby and rounded. I find the neck is better for cleans and some leads.

With the rigth technique, you can play quite nice palm muted stuff with the neck... just try it out...

 

[greendy123]

Re: Neck or Bridge for crunchy distortion and palm muting?

I know that the neck pickup is called the rhythm pickup, but it doesn't seem like people use them for rhythm much. Mostly people just go with bridge for that.