What's your favorite Strat P/U position

[Dr. Ellwood]

NECK!!!! guaranteed!!

 

 

[MILLO]

I use them all depending on what sound I want but I definitely favor the neck overall.

 

We should make babies

 

ew.

[MILLO]

Yuppers, neckers.... Pure eletric sonic beauty.

[Strategery]

#2 & #4 = Sweet Home Alabama.

 

#1 = Chicken pickin, power chords, & high gain lead.

 

#3 = The Pretenders.

 

#5 = Stevie Ray Vaughn.

 

Alcohol can bring on such profound revelations. :grin:

 

Randy

[Guitar55]

My Kinmans are wired so that I can get all three together or just the two outside pups (which gives a very Tele-like tone). The only positions I don't use are the all three combo and Middle pickup alone (although one of my favorite players, Anson Funderburgh, uses it exclusively).

 

You have a G&L Strat?

 

Keith,

 

I have a G&L Legacy. Are you just busting my chops?

 

 

[Hardtail]

My Kinmans are wired so that I can get all three together or just the two outside pups (which gives a very Tele-like tone). The only positions I don't use are the all three combo and Middle pickup alone (although one of my favorite players, Anson Funderburgh, uses it exclusively).

 

You have a G&L Strat?

 

Keith,

 

I have a G&L Legacy. Are you just busting my chops?

 

 

No. Just curious. I couldn't tell from your avatar what kind of Strat that is.

[fantasticsound]

I like different positions depending on the material, but I'm fond of the neck position followed by neck/middle unless I'm using heavy distortion, in which case the bridge is the thing for me.

 

I became interested in the neck position from SRV when he first began gaining notoriety outside Austin and strictly Blues circles. He's almost always a neck position guy, although I really love when I can hear him switch to another position in Couldn't Stand The Weather.

 

I like the meat of the neck/middle compared to the relatively weak sound of the middle/bridge position. I'm with others here in saying the middle p'up on its own is virtually useless to me.

[b3_john]

I'm with others here in saying the middle p'up on its own is virtually useless to me.

I'd like the switch at #3 to be bridge + neck (magically phase corrected while I'm dreaming) instead of the middle pickup, everything else being equal.

 

John

[Guitarzan]

my favorite position is usually the bridge bucker!

my pacifica ( yamaha superstrat) is equipped with a humbucker in the bridge.

of course i dig all the positions and sepending on what i am doing i use them all. the middle is probably the best sounding position for strumming, it is most balanced that way on my guitar.

as for anything blues like i prefer the neck. and for funkiness the bridge/middle.

i like them all.

 

[Guitar55]

My Kinmans are wired so that I can get all three together or just the two outside pups (which gives a very Tele-like tone). The only positions I don't use are the all three combo and Middle pickup alone (although one of my favorite players, Anson Funderburgh, uses it exclusively).

 

You have a G&L Strat?

 

Keith,

 

I have a G&L Legacy. Are you just busting my chops?

 

 

No. Just curious. I couldn't tell from your avatar what kind of Strat that is.

 

Sorry! Yeah, it's a G&L Legacy that my wife bought for me for Christmas 2004. The color is Fullerton Red (which is pretty orangey), with a cream colored pickguard in which I installed Kinman pickups.

[Hardtail]

G&Ls are nice. I don't know why they've always fallen under my radar.

 

[Gruupi]

I've basicly gone hybrid in my last two guitars that I built. I love the neck, neck/middle out of phase, and middle/bridge out of phase strat type sounds. I rarely like single coil bridge sounds thought they have thier place. I also have have a humbucking bridge sound. So I made a couple of guitars that have all the sounds I want. First try was a Carvin bolt kit which is argueably a better guitar than my much more expensive Warmoth guitar. I prefer the shorter scale of the Warmoth Les Paul so thats my main.

 

I have Kinman pickups in my Warmoth (neck and middle) and they sound fantastic and are uber quiet, even quieter than the Duncan '59 HB bridge PU. I love the single coils for blues and jazz sounds but must have the HB for singing lead tones. I just can't live with a pure Strat or a pure LP anymore, I have to be able to get multiple sounds from one guitar.