Single Coil - Middle; is there one to give a bridge-like sound?

Re: Single Coil - Middle; is there one to give a bridge-like sound?

You could also do as Whizz suggested...add a switch to split the bridge bucker for when you want that single coil bridge tone (either an extra mini toggle or change one of your existing pots to a push/pull).
 
Re: Single Coil - Middle; is there one to give a bridge-like sound?

(The bridge humbucker is 2 conductor and i dont wanna tweak it since it was handwired)
U guys are right by definition i think.
Middle is middle. My question is somewhat paradox on that generalized basis...
My calling it 'bridge-like-sound' was just my way of describing what i heard from the track.
Beeing that more specific for only finding that type of sound should help; guess, a zinc/copper-plated baseplate would be excrescent^^

I guess cutting the pot will bring some high end but wouldnt yet dampen the boom.... Maybe with a bass-cut-cao i could work.

But its not really what ive been looking for, it wouldnt sound that good (though the guitar sounds quite dirty in the track!) .. Some Pickup that was designed differently would sound more authentic, like dimebucker as single coil ...or something similar
 
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Re: Single Coil - Middle; is there one to give a bridge-like sound?

GuitarDoc said:
Snowdog is correct. You're not going to get a bridge sound out of any pup in the middle position. Whatever you use, you'd have to lower it a lot, but then you're gonna lose a lot of output. If you put in a higher output pup to compensate for that loss you're going to introduce more mids...not what you want if you're trying to mimic a bridge pup.
Lew hit on something, but I'll take it a step further. Have a separate vol pot for the middle (500k or 1 meg) and not connected to the tone pot. Then have the other pups (bridge and neck) hooked up to master vol and tone pots (250k).
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True, for classic strat bridge tone. OP said he wanted "dirty bridge" type of tone, which sounds like extra mids compared to traditional strat sound is only a good thing.

Maybe video clears it up, but I mostly read this forum with my phone and I hate trying to watch videos with it.
 
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AlexS7320 said:
My calling it 'bridge-like-sound' was just my way of describing what i heard from the track.
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Another problem in addition the fact that you can't eliminate the way the position influences the tone/voicing is that many of us are unable to view/hear that track because it is blocked in our region.
 
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Try a VPN if you have trouble with videos being blocked by region.
 
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Jacew said:
True, for classic strat bridge tone. OP said he wanted "dirty bridge" type of tone, which sounds like extra mids compared to traditional strat sound is only a good thing.
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I don't understand your reasoning at all. He wants a single coil Strat pup with dirty tone (which means some overdrive or distortion added). That doesn't mean a heavy-mids humbucker pup. He even refers to the sound he's after as a single coil. A single coil bridge pup doesn't sound like it has "extra mids". I couldn't access the video he posted a link to, and admittedly that could shed a whole lot of light on what he's asking for. Maybe the tone in that vid is very mid heavy. That would simplify the solution dramatically. Yet he does refer to it as a single coil, so I doubt it.
 
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GuitarDoc said:
I don't understand your reasoning at all. He wants a single coil Strat pup with dirty tone (which means some overdrive or distortion added). That doesn't mean a heavy-mids humbucker pup. He even refers to the sound he's after as a single coil. A single coil bridge pup doesn't sound like it has "extra mids". I couldn't access the video he posted a link to, and admittedly that could shed a whole lot of light on what he's asking for. Maybe the tone in that vid is very mid heavy. That would simplify the solution dramatically. Yet he does refer to it as a single coil, so I doubt it.
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Exactly. I was talking about single coils all the time. SSL-5 has more mids than your average SC in bridge. QP has loads of it.

Dirty bridge doesn't refer to vintage tone in my mind, but not hearing the video either I could have misunderstood. You're right that there's no way you'd get Wilko Johnson style "dirtyness" from middle pickup.
 
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I've always been happy with the lead tone from a QP in middle position; it's dirty & fat but it still has singlecoil bite.
Still, I'm one of those who can't see the OPs linked vid.
I concede that it might not be the tone he's looking for. But it does rock.
 
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