Does anyone ever use "middle" humbucker position?

[Alan Roberts]

I use mine alot, but I've got my LP modded to be out of phase in the middle position.

[cincy_cosmo]

I use it alot!

[rhat]

 

Seriously, I pretty much never use it am i alone here?

 

 

 

I use it alot both on my semi hollow body and my solid body heritage's . I like a clean sound and dont use much in the way of effects other than reverb or delay. rat

[Fred Fartboski]

 

Does anyone ever use "middle" humbucker position?

 

 

Only when the wife is in the mood.

[dinosaur jm]

i use the neck+bridge pickup on my jazzmaster quite often.

[savoldi]

 

Seriously, I pretty much never use it am i alone here?

 

 

Set up your bridge the way you want it and turn the volume of the other pickup down to about 3 or 4. That way you'll have basically the same bridge sound in the middle position with a bit more warmth. Very usable.

[Nik]

Yes, for cleans.

[Faber]

On the 335, I'm on the middle position most of the time. Jst work the tone and vol controls, and I have most of the variation I need

[cratz2]

Back with I mostly played dual HB guitars, I tended to play lead with either the bridge only pickup with relatively high gain (by 80s standards... not 'high gain' by todays standards) or the middle position with less gain... Just enough to be beyond low gain.

 

I always liked Slash's lead sound with the neck bucker, but I never had a guitar that really sounded believably good on that type of sound. Or maybe I had the wrong amps.

 

My style is a LOT different now that it was then. With dual HB or dual P90 guitars, I like to use the middle position with the volume on the bridge PU at about 95% and the volume of the neck PU about 10-20%. Still bridgy sounding, but fuller.

[Zappa74]

Quite a bit.

 

My middle position puts the two humbuckers out of phase... I dig the amount of variety that gives me. Nice and Fenderish when clean, but turn up the gain, zero the guitars tone knob and it gets all squawky. Good stuff.

[jgyn]

I use it on my Les Paul for a bluesy Bloomfield type of sound.

[Ryan Trevisol]

Of course! It's the Fat Duck! It's like Strat Quack after a lifetime of eating McDonalds.

[DavyJonesLocker]

If we're talking a two humbuck guitar, I use the middle position with the neck pu dialed back a few notches (enough to reduce the overall output between the bridge and neck pu) for a more sparkly (less muddy) rhythm tone. Sounds a lot better to me too for quieter, fingerpicked passages. I generally don't like the neck pu all by itself.

[favata5]

If you wanna play BB KING ,CCR,most good blues you better be using those 2 pickups together!!