Teach me about the middle position on a H-H guitar

[Clint 55]

Re: Teach me about the middle position on a H-H guitar

You can get about 3 sounds out of mid position. Neck full with some bridge blended in for more bite, bridge full with some neck blended in for more fullness, or both full for max quack.

 

[ThisDyingSoul76]

Re: Teach me about the middle position on a H-H guitar

What I sometimes do is roll back the volume on the neck until it gives a cleanish sound, use the bridge for lead with the volume full up and then the middle position becomes a crunch tone.

 

[Little Pigbacon]

Re: Teach me about the middle position on a H-H guitar

I don’t use the middle H+H position often. When I do, it’s usually clean on my Epi Les Paul. Alternatively, my Jackson Dinky will do a neat trick: If I select both humbuckets and turn the tone knob down most of the way, I hit a cool resonance point and it sounds like a cocked wah.

 

[JB_From_Hell]

Re: Teach me about the middle position on a H-H guitar

I love the middle position on my ‘62 LP. I’d never really used the middle, then I heard Jimmy Herring say he uses the middle with the neck volume rolled just a little off. I tried it and he’s right, it sounds like a sweeter bridge pickup. This guitar has a great sounding set of PAFs, so that helps.

 

[SawDusty]

Re: Teach me about the middle position on a H-H guitar

Aceman thanks for this tip

I was messing around with it tonight. My 2V2T guitar is setup with 50s wiring and PAF spec pickups . I usually keep the volumes at about “8” and only tweak just a bit making one greater than the other and the other way.


I tried your tip and I was surprised how there is not much change in tone or volume when you twiddle the volume on the neck between “1” and a setting close to the bridge setting but I’m at pretty low gain. But I do like the effect. While I was in that bridge at 9, neck at 2-5 zone I started fiddling with the neck tone knob. Even with a really low neck volume the neck tone control seems to provide lots of options to this configuration. Lots more to play with now

I do this:

I often use it the two-on position for an "Instant Clean"

In most circuits (meaning Les Paul to me) if you have two volumes and you have one of them off when both pickups are "on" you get no sound. Then, you add just a little bit of say the neck pickup.

The both on position really shines when crafting clean sounds, IMO.

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