Do you favor neck pickups or bridge pickups?

[Bacchus]

I seem to use exclusively with neck pickups, and prettly much exclusively single coils. The only time I'll use the bridge is if I'm playing metal or heavy rock by myself. Usually when I'm playing it's bluesy stuff and I like big, thick sounds.

Also, I'm lucky in that the three guitars I play most have amazing neck pickup tones. There's the Jag-stang, the Aerodyne Tele (soapbar in neck) and the Epiphone Emperor Regent (neck mini humbucker only, sounds pretty single coily in a way).

[Ankhanu]

Aerodyne Tele (soapbar in neck)

Absolutely gorgeous for a stock pickup, isn't it?? I adore mine.

[Bacchus]

Yes indeed. Wish the switch worked, though. Keep meaning to get round to replacing it.

[tomin8r]

I just remembered something.
George, when you do the 'vaughan' mod, I found that if you select, the neck and middle pickups, and roll the neck tone down, you get a cocked wah tone, the "Money for Nothing" tone when used with distortion. This may have just been my guitar's shitty caps though.

Good luck with it

[Ankhanu]

Yes indeed. Wish the switch worked, though. Keep meaning to get round to replacing it.

Haha, I actually dropped mine off with a tech last week. It's probably done now.
Was yours sketchy on switching to the bridge too? Mine switched to the neck fine, but the bridge was really sketchy (and getting the bridge in the middle position too).

[Gabriel]

Neck. OR Neck+Bridge.

+1

I play a lot of Jazz and Blues so it works well for me?

When its Rock music I tend to use both pickups, Funk on the bridge pickup though.

[othomas2]

Generally I've always liked the bridge for chordal stuff and the neck for lead work, but this can always change depending on the situation.

[Earth]

You guys that mainly play (or a lot) with the neck p.up, what kind of stuff are you playing? Heavily distorted/fuzzed?
The reason I ask is because I have never got along with neck p.ups unless they are used clean or occasionally on a short section of lead.
I've always thought that distorted neck p.ups sounded muddy.
You have this kinda problem?

[Grant]

Lots of guys here go for the neck, yeah.

[Mages]

Generally I've always liked the bridge for chordal stuff and the neck for lead work, but this can always change depending on the situation.

this. at least in theory. but yeah, often I find that neck pickup just doesn't cut through enough and have to switch to the bridge.

[Will]

I was a bridge-PUP only guy for basically the entire time I played electric. Then about 3 1/2 years ago I got a Silvertone 1448 on a whim and never looked back. With just that neck pup, I could get all the expression I needed. I found I didn't even want distortion anymore - picking closer to the bridge was plenty.

Now my entire style - the way I arrange and write melodies and play fingerstyle - is completely built around what sounds good on a Dano.

[samuelcotterall]

I use the neck pickup in my Dot because the selector switch has been pretty intermittent for about six months, but it stays in the neck position without any problems—I kinda’ EQ everything to make the middle pickup on a Strat sound a little thinner, so the neck pickup in my Dot still cuts through relatively well.

[Bacchus]

Yes indeed. Wish the switch worked, though. Keep meaning to get round to replacing it.

Haha, I actually dropped mine off with a tech last week. It's probably done now.
Was yours sketchy on switching to the bridge too? Mine switched to the neck fine, but the bridge was really sketchy (and getting the bridge in the middle position too).

Yeah, pretty much since I got it. It would sometimes work fine, sometimes it wouldn't switch to the bridge and the middle setting would only have the neck sounding, then a bit of furious switch action later and it wouldn't switch to the neck, only the bridge.

Apparently they were all like this, though. I've read about the problem before.

[tomin8r]

Methinks this should be in the Effects,Amp, and Gear section.

Jus sayin'

[Bacchus]

Aye.

[James]

Methinks this should be in the Effects,Amp, and Gear section.

Jus sayin'

Right you are.

Moved.

[George]

I've made the change to leave the middle pickup completely on my Strat and it sounds good. All I had to do was cut a jumper anyway. The quack positions don't seem to have as much volume drop now.

[johnnyseven]

I always use the bridge pickup only and never use the neck. To me, neck pickups are too bassy - however I do like to play bridge single coils with the tone way down to get rid of the trebliness from the sound. I'm playing 2 Jazzmasters, one with Seymour Duncan Antiquity II pickups and the other with Antiquity Humbuckers.

My Strat sounds good on all pickups but I don't play it much with my band.

I did once have a Squier Tele though and liked to play neck and bridge, however the bridge pickup had much higher output so with the neck it gave it a really full sound.

[IroniaSudby]

A lot of the time. I use Neck on my Jag. Ill switch it up and
use some bridge for the gain when it isn't too bright.

A lot of Rhythm Circuit. Haters gonna hate

[Grant]

Methinks this should be in the Effects,Amp, and Gear section.

Jus sayin'

Yeah, my bad. The first post ended up being less related to short scales than I had originally intended it to be.