Single bridge humbucker guitars?

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Interesting video. Not sure if I agree with his "science", but cool nonetheless.

I've about decided at this point to put my Diablo into a dual hb'er axe, but that doesn't mean that we can't still post cool single-pup guitars:

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Dean Soltero Leslie West Signature. Discontinued but NOS and used ones are plentiful enough.

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After watching that video, I could only think "I HOPE he's on drugs or drunk right now." Otherwise...
 
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He's not totally wrong nor is he totally right. It's all relative. The neck pickup can have a negative effect from being set too close, but so can the bridge pickup.

Action is the same, it can be too low or not, and that depends a lot on the players touch.
 
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Yeah! That is a pretty rare Ibanez, right there...although I don't think Allan Holdsworth never used one professionally.
 
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Esquire Scorpion is my sole remaining single-hum guitar. And unlike most Fenders it isn't bolt-on, it's a set neck.

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^ Nice. I don't think I've ever seen one of those before. Oh yeah, I did. Isn't that what Avril Lavigne used?

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She's played a bunch of different axes. I kinda like her.
 
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I don't really get it. If you never touch the knobs, any guitar can operate in as simple a fashion as you want it to. Guess I prefer to have a variety of tones 'just in case.'

But what I really don't get is how most single pickup guitars will forego a tone control. In ways a single pickup guitar with a tone control is more amenable to me than a dual pickup guitar with only a vol. control. Yet most single pickup guitars are further constrained by the lack of knobs.

This, I think, can best be explained by an example:


The songs that went into this were originally performed on a number of different instruments, including one of the most famous Les Pauls in the world, as well as strats, Hamers and (possibly, if you trust the promo photos) PRSes. I can hear that the keyboards take over some of the clean guitar parts, but I cannot honestly say that I am thinking that the tone would have been improved by a tone control at any point. Gary, of course, was still playing like a god in 1987, but this is probably a decent approximation of the guitar tones people who go for single-HB guitars without a tone knob go for.

I'd be happy to be as constrained as Gary was here. :)
 
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That was Gary Moore at his best imo ^^.

I have plenty of single hum guitars but i prefer HS i love the neck tone.
 
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I have plenty of single hum guitars but i prefer HS i love the neck tone.

That's about what I've decided to do. Using a PA-STK1n, and including a switch position to give me split El Diablo with the PA would give me a virtual FuglyBucker.
 
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