What Settings Do You Use?

[BeZo]

What settings do you use on your guitar? I'm sure most of you are all bridge pickup all the time, but some of you probably coil tap. Do you use any phase switching or coil tapping on your guitars? Is it at the switch or do you have separate switches or push pull pots?

Aside from the bridge or neck pickup, I like to use the outer coils on clean parts. It is chimey and pretty, even when I dial my clean in a little dark and dirty.

 

[WizardAmpIphoneClip]

Everything up.
I rarely even use my neck pickups though they sound mint
I wish I didnt have volume or tone knobs on my guitars at all.

 

[MadAsAHatter]

I've probably experimented with just about every option you could think of. North/south coil tap, series/parallel, in/out of phase, etc. I went to far as to try a blend knob to blend in the amount of each humbucker coil. Even took it a step further and tried triple and quad coils.

Everything has it's place, but I always found myself going back to the straight forward humbucker in series with 1 volume & 1 tone. In most cases I can do without the tone knob. The volume knob is there mainly for mute otherwise it's generally full on.

 

[stratjacket]

I will experiment from time to time with splitting or combining pickups, but ultimately Full bridge and full neck. Preferably no Tone knob, but tone knob all the way up if there is one.

 

[griff10672]

When I fist starting wiring my own guitars I went right to the old Jimmy Page Wiring ..... and never really used any of it ....

now all my LP's or anything with two buckers that I have is done in 50's wiring .... except maybe my new 70's LP Custom that might be modern ..... I'm not sure on that one ....

one of my favorite lead tones ... is the neck bucker all the way up ... tone all the way down ( aka woman tone ) with a Green Ringer or equivalent in front of a high gain amp ......

 

[DanTravis62]

bridge and neck, mostly at full volume and tone, and sometimes i use the pushpull that takes all the bullshit out of the circuit

 

[rsm]

It really depends on the guitar.

In general, I usually dial in my amps, software and modelers using both pickups / pickup selector in the middle setting - what I consider the "neutral" setting, guitar volume down around 7-8 which I adjust while playing as needed, tone at full/10. Then I check/adjust for each pickup selector setting to get distinct sounds I like from each setting as much as possible.

Switching the pickup selector is designed to provide different sounds; why not make use of them?

If I have 3-5 (or more) pickup combinations (e.g., my Ibanez Q42 had 10 pickup settings) I like to find how to use most/all of them. One of the reasons I like the EBMM Kaizen is the middle pickup selector uses the outer coil of both pickups, like a clear single coil, with a lower volume; switching to the neck or bridge is a dramatic change in tone.

...I guess if I was playing dropped tuned modern metal sludge pickup nuances wouldn't matter as it mostly sounds like indistinct roaring mud without articulation to my ears.

 

[Uzi Nein Millimetah]

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