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GMC Forum _ GEAR & PRODUCTION _ I Never Use The Middle Pick Up
Posted by: coffeeman Jan 19 2010, 05:34 PM
I own a Fender Stratocaster standard , and I realized I never use the middle pick up. I was thinking on buying antoher strat but I guess im going for a telecaster instead.
For those who have HSS, SSS, HSH configurations , do you use your middle pickup?
Posted by: mhskeide Jan 19 2010, 05:40 PM
For those who have HSS, SSS, HSH configurations , do you use your middle pickup?
I prefer to use the mid pickup with clean tones, eventually some bluesrock where I want my tone to be not to smooth, neither to trebly
Posted by: Crazy_Diamond Jan 19 2010, 05:43 PM
I almost never use my middle pickup.... sometime when I play some funk or some reggae I am using it but thats it.
Posted by: Chris Evans Jan 19 2010, 05:49 PM
no I never use the middle pickups either, my musical tastes and playing style has never called for it 
Posted by: Jesse Jan 19 2010, 05:53 PM
middle + neck = epic.
middle only.. meh
Posted by: skennington Jan 19 2010, 06:21 PM
Can the loaded pickguard on these guitars be changed for a different config? I have always wondered this. For example, can 3 singles be replaced with a fat strat configuration? Provided the routing allows it, I can't see why not..
Posted by: Staffy Jan 19 2010, 07:17 PM
I use it all the time, mostly in conjunction with the bridge and neck pick-up, but also alone when I want some little more edge to phrases played on the bass strings... I'd rather remove the bridge pick-up if one of them has to go....
//Staffay
Posted by: JVM Jan 19 2010, 07:29 PM
I use it a fair amount. I really like the brdige/mid position, something about it, at least on my strat, screams Mark Knopfler. Sometimes I set it to have the tone all the way down and you get a cool wah like effect switching through pickups. It's a nice balance between the two.
Posted by: Sensible Jones Jan 19 2010, 07:58 PM
My RG has a Steve Vai Evo Single in the middle position and it's great! Especially in positions 2+4 where it's in conjunction with the split coils of the Seymour Duncan Humbuckers!
Posted by: Dejan Farkas Jan 19 2010, 09:54 PM
I use middle single mainly with neck single to cancel hum at high gain, otherwise rarely
Posted by: Fran Jan 19 2010, 09:57 PM
I use bridge + middle sometimes, gives a nice clen but not so harsh.
But I mainly use bridge 80% of the time on all my guitars anyway
Posted by: djohnneay Jan 19 2010, 11:37 PM
I never used it on my Silvertone, so I got a Schecter without a middle pick-up 
Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Jan 20 2010, 02:56 AM
I use it all the time for funk and some leads, use the positions 2 and 4 as well, specially neck+middle with rolled of tone for some smoothness.
Posted by: Praetorian Jan 20 2010, 03:04 AM
I could not agree more. I LOVE the mid + neck pup setting for clean tones. It is my favorite, and most used setting on my strat!
Posted by: Adrian Figallo Jan 20 2010, 06:11 AM
all the time, for funk, for blues, for clean tones, and for hum canceling when i use some fuzz or dist.
But a tele is always a good choice too
Posted by: JVM Jan 20 2010, 09:04 AM
Unrelated to the thread, but I've always wondered why the bridge pickup in a strat is slanted the way it is. You get a lot of people who find it too harsh, wouldn't it make more sense to slant it the other way?
Posted by: Adrian Figallo Jan 20 2010, 02:23 PM
i think i heard it is like that because it looked good back in days
not sure if it's true tho..
Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Jan 20 2010, 04:22 PM
not sure if it's true tho..
It's true it does look good
Posted by: Crazy_Diamond Jan 20 2010, 04:36 PM
+1
Posted by: Daniel Realpe Jan 24 2010, 04:22 PM
not sure if it's true tho..
I think I saw in one vid that it was like that to smooth out the sharp edges in tone.
I sometimes use the middle position for sparkling clean tones
Posted by: Caelumamittendum Jan 24 2010, 04:41 PM
I use the middle pick up for a more strat like sound. Sounds more blues-ish to me than the humbuckers...I have HSH in my guitar by the way. Haha.
Posted by: Marcus Siepen Jan 27 2010, 04:41 PM
Only once in my life I had a guita with a middle pickup, and to be honest I hated it! I never used it cause I just didn't like its sound and it was always in my way cause I used to pick the strings exactly above that middle pickup. So what I did is I set this pickup as low as possible so at least it was not interfering with my playing anymore and I never ever got another guitar with 3 pickups.
Posted by: Sensible Jones Jan 27 2010, 04:58 PM
Ritchie Blackmore!!!!
Steve Stevens Hamer and Washburn Signature models have a bridge Humbucker which slants the other way! He always swore that it took some of the harshness out of it!
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