TheGreatGreen
Well-known member
Simple question, really. What's your preference?
Most of us here (including me) are high gain guys who probably spend the majority of the time on the bridge pickup. But every now and then, we'll swap over to the other end of the guitar and get down that way. Based on the kinds of guitars most often being made for high gain, it might be assumed that most of us generally go for humbucker tones when we switch away from the bridge, but I'm not so sure.
Personally I've never really gotten along with neck humbuckers. They've always seemed too dark and low-end heavy to really get articulate with the kinds of sounds I think of when I think "neck tones." My #1 guitar has a neck humbucker, but most of the time I just leave the neck split switch toggled on. In a perfect world I think my ideal high gain neck tone would be a stacked single coil though. You'd still get a lot of the stringy, articulate thing going on but the stacked hum would cut the noise.
Anyway, it just kind of hit me that I never really see this kind of thing talked about much, so I thought I'd throw a poll up and ask what you guys think.
Most of us here (including me) are high gain guys who probably spend the majority of the time on the bridge pickup. But every now and then, we'll swap over to the other end of the guitar and get down that way. Based on the kinds of guitars most often being made for high gain, it might be assumed that most of us generally go for humbucker tones when we switch away from the bridge, but I'm not so sure.
Personally I've never really gotten along with neck humbuckers. They've always seemed too dark and low-end heavy to really get articulate with the kinds of sounds I think of when I think "neck tones." My #1 guitar has a neck humbucker, but most of the time I just leave the neck split switch toggled on. In a perfect world I think my ideal high gain neck tone would be a stacked single coil though. You'd still get a lot of the stringy, articulate thing going on but the stacked hum would cut the noise.
Anyway, it just kind of hit me that I never really see this kind of thing talked about much, so I thought I'd throw a poll up and ask what you guys think.
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