First time using neck pickup!

[varialbender]

I've always used my bridge pickup (PRS McCarty) and just knifed around the mix with a lot of mids and highs and not much bass, but yesterday at band practice, my bassist asked me to switch to my neck pickup for a part. Sounded great. Very sweet. I'll be messing with my guitar tone controls and such a lot more now. We play pretty heavy, but a new song has a nice jazzy part in it, and I crank the tone control to full bassy with neck pickup and lots of amp reverb. Sounds crazy, I love it. So much to be done without any stompboxes, just makes things that much more interesting.

[vigor&kandor]

you are going to be spending alot of time with your guitar from now on. i found i have the neck pickup on almost all the time. adds nice bass, makes cleans sound GREAT. it i go really heavy i will use just the bridge pickup. i rewired my strat to us the bridge/neck pickup at the same time.

[GuyaGuy]

Originally posted by vigor&kandor i rewired my strat to us the bridge/neck pickup at the same time.

yeah, that's a must imo.

silly Leo.

 

 

 

welcome to the world of neck pups, varialbender.

 

i actually rarely use my bridge pup exclusively--usually it's 2 in tandem, the middle one, or the neck. there's so much more meat from the neck pup.

neck pup+dist=

[BigFurryWhale]

I think some people write off the neck pickup without really giving him a chance.

 

This post goes out to all the neck pickups all over the world!

[utsapp89]

I don't even have a bridge pickup in my LP right now...it looks so strange.

[CicadaSilence]

I only use my bridge pickup when I'm trying to be really obnoxious.

 

Neck pickups ftw.

[troubbble]

I have a pretty warm neck pickup with a touch of twang and a higher gain mid-heavy bridge pickup. The neck always gets used as long as it cuts through. It's beautiful

[desertlimosine]

yeah, i use the neck pickup 83% of the time!

[aeonrevolution]

I've got a Dimarzio Super Distortion in the bridge and a Duncan 59 in the Neck. I like it

[varialbender]

I'm pretty new at guitar... maybe under a year?

I originally set up my tone as something more mechanical and utilitarian. It existed to cut through the mix so I could hear what I was playing as well as possible. Worked really well, but now I guess I can start thinking more in terms of 'tone' tone, and doing more work on it for live performance and integrate it into my playing.

[dotlikeimpact]

Neck pickup users unite! Screw the awful trebly mess that comes from the bottom one.

[GorillaLover]

I play clean most of the time.. and use my neck pickup for melodies/leads..

 

sometimes in parallel mode ..

 

for rhythms I tend to use the neck in parallel..

 

for funky/glassy things I use the middle position with the neck set to parallel (it's a 2 humbucker guitar)

 

for high gain leads I use the bridge pickup 75% of the time with my tone control rolled back to about 2-3