I'm a chorder, so it generally just sounds like undefined mush.
However breakup with a neck single coil is lovely.
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 2:36 pm
by Aeon
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.
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 2:37 pm
by Mike
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.
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 2:45 pm
by Aeon
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!
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 2:46 pm
by Doog
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]
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 2:55 pm
by Mike
Aeon wrote:Could be wrong. Either way he's using fuzzed out chords!
True enough, I don't really like their guitar sound though
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 2:55 pm
by Mike
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]