Where do you pick?

Aeon · Post by **Aeon** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 2:25 pm

Mike wrote:Neck pickup + Distortion = not good.

neck pickup + fuzz = can be good

has to be a single coil though.

Post by **Mike** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 2:26 pm

Yeah for single note stuff I guess.

I'm a chorder, so it generally just sounds like undefined mush.

However breakup with a neck single coil is lovely.

Aeon · Post by **Aeon** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 2:36 pm

Ever use a big muff or a fuzz face?

Distorted chords (well, they have to be 5ths or something similarly simple) can sound huge. Ever listen to Smashing Pumpkins' Siamese Dream? A lot of it had to be the neck pickup + fuzz + big marshall amps.

Post by **Mike** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 2:37 pm

I had a Big Muff NYC for ages that I never got along with (I know it's not the best model), I've heard a Green one before at Doogfest and it was excellent.

I find it hard to believe that the Siamese Dream guitars are all neck pickup - they sound like Bridge Humbuckers to me.

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No way is that intro anything but a Bridge Pickup in my opinion.

Aeon · Post by **Aeon** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 2:45 pm

He was using a strat with lace sensors in it.

That one's not really an example, its more raw. (But yeah it is fuzz)

I think on tracks like Hummer and Today he had to have some neck pickup in their, the response is a little bit different, more "mushy" in a way.

Could be wrong. Either way he's using fuzzed out chords!

Post by **Doog** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 2:46 pm

Mike wrote:Neck pickup + Distortion = not good.

Russ from CAUTIONHORSES uses just the neck pickup, although it's primarily powerchords and single string lines- sounds pretty cool I reckon.

I like switching every now and then too- but for tight riffage, it doesn't quite work.

Apparently Weezer/River were neck pickup men until whathisface from the Cars turned them round to the Bright Side..

The band briefly considered self-producing, but were pressured by Geffen to choose a producer. They ultimately decided on Ric Ocasek. Cuomo: "I'd always admire The Cars and Ric Ocasek's songwriting and production skills."[9] During production, Ocasek convinced the band to change their guitar pickup from the rhythm pick-up to the lead pick-up, resulting in a brighter sound.[9]

Post by **Mike** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 2:55 pm

Aeon wrote:Could be wrong. Either way he's using fuzzed out chords!

True enough, I don't really like their guitar sound though

Post by **Mike** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 2:55 pm

Doog wrote:
Mike wrote:Neck pickup + Distortion = not good.
Russ from CAUTIONHORSES uses just the neck pickup, although it's primarily powerchords and single string lines- sounds pretty cool I reckon.

I like switching every now and then too- but for tight riffage, it doesn't quite work.

Apparently Weezer/River were neck pickup men until whathisface from the Cars turned them round to the Bright Side..

The band briefly considered self-producing, but were pressured by Geffen to choose a producer. They ultimately decided on Ric Ocasek. Cuomo: "I'd always admire The Cars and Ric Ocasek's songwriting and production skills."[9] During production, Ocasek convinced the band to change their guitar pickup from the rhythm pick-up to the lead pick-up, resulting in a brighter sound.[9]

Yeah I'd heard that Weezer story. N00bs.