What do you use middle pickups for?

Re: What do you use middle pickups for?

For me, having a low out put single coil pickup in between two high output humbuckers is a godsend. Helps me escape the humbucking sound when I want to, even though there's a major volume difference. My Duncan Distortion and PAF pro distort way too easy and sound a bit too sterile for cleans. Combining them with my Vintage Rails (yes, I know it's not a true single coil) helps them clean up nicely.
 
Re: What do you use middle pickups for?

i'll be 100% honest for you..9 times out of 10...nothing...they just seem to get in the way lol so i try to stick to guitars without middle pickups and on my strat i have the middle PU down real real low...

you asked lol

-Mike
 
Re: What do you use middle pickups for?

psy said:
Lew, that's the reason why I now use Schaller/Eyb Megaswitch E for all my guitars equipped with 3 PUs. Pos 1 2 4 5 like a Strat, Pos 3 is bridge+neck parallel which I like much better - especially with HBs.
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I've got the same switching set up on my strat with a SM-1 Mini Humbucker in the neck position. The position 3, has that cool Tele middle sound which is way more useful than the middle pickup by itself.
 
Re: What do you use middle pickups for?

I use my middle pup for lower gain organic bluesy stuff...
I remember hearing Bonnie Raitt uses it alot for her slide tones,
so when I want to simulate slide with the bar, it works out
great.

I don't use it for high gain sounds tho.
 
Re: What do you use middle pickups for?

I only use mine when im playing clean chords and maybe if i ever play punk stuff which doesnt happen that often.
 
Re: What do you use middle pickups for?

I only like it in the 2nd or 4th postion with single coils or tapped buckers. Otherwise, they're pretty useless to me.
 
Re: What do you use middle pickups for?

My strat used to be a fat strat, so the neck and middle combined had some use to me.
Now it has a hot rails type pickup in the neck position, so the middle pickup is unused, and adjusted as low as possible.. The switch is wired so that I get 2 hummer guitar style switching. Suits me just fine. I guess some like 'em, some don't. I don't.
Thanks for the replies, guys!
 
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