I have read posts. I guess my question was too general, though. Some of my.. When they were loaded with effects however, the difference in sound was minimal, only vaguely noticed by the player's himself. It makes me wonder, how much does the tone-shaping kicks in, being heavily immersed with cables, amp, effects, and what not..
So "it does change the sound", yeah, picks, strings, the amp's surface and angle, how sweaty your fingers are, they all also change the sound. Question is- by how much. Messages: 5, Yes, but the wood also change the sound too. It is all working together. Like if you pull any hb on a strat, it'll never sound close to a Gibson.
Or if you put single coil onto a Gibson, it'll never sound like a Fender. Don't buy into the Fender has longer scale length, Fender Mustang has the shortest scale length of 24" and it absolutely sound like a Fender. Alan , Jul 4, Depends on the pickups. Passive vs active, high output vs low output, differing windings or polepieces. So many choice a person can go mad, mad i say! Changing pickups CAN change the guitar's sound significantly, but not necessarily.
If you go from one extreme to the other, i. Old Mojo , Jul 4, Age: 44 Messages: Messages: 8, For me, the payoff is in the playing.
I have recently gotten into D. Whereas Jimmy had that going on but he also had his pickups essentially being played upside down as well. One thing I personally liked to do whether I kept the intended voicing position for the pickup or rotated it, was to use an HSH pick guard for my three single coil strats,.
And later on I found myself just dropping the middle pickup altogether as I did not use it much because I generally set it so low in the body for picking space, that I hardly used it. Point being that having a big open space with a Humbucker route for a single coil to be placed in both the neck and bridge pickup afforded me two things,. Number one, I was able to experiment with different positions for the pickups. I could stagger the neck pickup in either direction very much like a bridge pickup by simply drilling a an extra hole on the guard in either direction.
Number two , I could set the bridge single coil pickup straight across instead of staggered. I would set it straight and as close as it could go toward the middle of the body, which I found, gave me a tremendous monster single coil sound as the whole pickup was as close to the middle of the body for the high strings as it was for the low strings.
Number three , having a bit of space open around the bridge and neck single coil pickups due to being set in such a large opening that was designed for a humbucker produced an acoustic percussive quality to the sound and attack when I would pick the strings that I really fell in love with. Almost like having 2 Acoustic Sound Holes on my electric Guitar! Meaning that the adjustable pole piece bobbins are generally set furthest away from each other. If you look at your bridge pickup on your Les Paul, You will notice the adjustable pole piece bobbins are facing away from the middle of the body closest toward the bridge.
By rolling either of the magnets the opposite way facing the middle of the body as opposed to away from the middle of the body,. The standard way HH pickup voicing orientation is designed that way to give you the broadest spectrum of sound sweep available from dark to bright. I did this because I personally like not having such a drastic change in tone going from the bridge pickup to the neck pickup when switching back and forth. So by doing this my bridge pickup would darken up a bit and my neck pickup would brighten up a bit.
To me this was always a bit more of a usable scenario as I preferred to go from bright to dark when switching between the two pickups but I always seem to have felt it was borderline going from a bit shrill on the bridge pickup to a bit muddy on the neck pickup. Give it a try sometime. When you perform a string change is the opportune time to pop off the mounting rings and just turned the pickups around. You may love the thick lush sound you get out of your neck pickup the way it is, but just find you want a little more of a meaty tone out of your bridge pickup.
Before you go pulling your pick guard apart on a strat, you need to ensure that you have space for the upside down pickups to fit. There are certain types of single coil pickups that are symmetrical that will work doing this technique , but if they are vintage styled single coils chances are they will have the common shape that the vintage single coil would have come with in the early days.
If you have a Humbucker — Single — Humbucker HSH route you may be able to accomplish the rotation for the bridge and neck but not the middle pickup. If you have a swimming pool route, you should be able to rotate all three with no problem. So you may have some interesting things going on in positions two through four when the middle pickup interacts with either bridge or neck pickup. The truly vintage look for an HH style guitar was to have chrome or nickel covers on the pickups which do warm-up the tone a bit as they cover half of the magnetic bobbins.
And determine exposed coil is actually a bit deceiving as the actual copper windings are not actually exposed. But in a way the term can be justified also because if there was a cover present it would indeed wrap around the coils, so the lack of presence of a cover could be justified in name as exposed coil. The term itself just seems to me to sound like there is no top plate on the pickups where the bobbins and coils are just hanging all out there. This is not the case. Exposed or open coil type humbuckers are definitely hotter even if they are wound to the same output resistance because the flat cut magnetic bobbins can receive the sound more directly than if it has the cover on it.
The Instrument. All the same. Norton , Nov 19, PixMix , Ray and Logan like this. Louis area on the Illinois side. For Ryan Bruce, what he says is factual, because he plays high gain most of the time and is heavily processed with effects. Me, though? Most of the time, while I have a pedalboard, I go straight in usually. As others have said, in that situation it matters quite a bit. Logan , Nov 19, Norton likes this. Joined: Dec 9, Messages: Likes Received: You can't get it sound clean by using amp effects, pedals, Helix, etc.
I do think many are spending too much time polishing their guitars rather than playing them, but there is also some things to consider. When it comes down to it, if Foo Fighters asked you to play 2nd guitar in the band and you went out there with your Epiphone SG special and a Marshall, well, it would still sound good.
Last edited: Nov 22, Ray , Nov 22, PixMix and cerebral gasket like this. Joined: Jan 13, Messages: 3, Likes Received: 4, No matter how well a noise gate is dialed in I feel like it is choking the sustain out of the notes and feels unnatural to play.
Using an aftermarket zero-hum P works for me so they do matter. I think the geometry of the pickup has a lot to do with how they sound and of course the location of where installed in relation to the bridge. F-style single coils sound thin because they are narrow and pickup a narrow region of string vibrations. Humbuckers sound fat because they are wider from bridge to nut distance so they pickup a wider region of string vibrations.
Sounds right to me, that. Me too, one SG with p90s and one with humbuckers. Then I'd have all I ever needed and wanted electric-guitarwise Oh, and a nice Telecaster, too. I like the sound of Strats but have a problem playing them Funny you mention the volume knob on the Strat.
I took care of that on mine and also installed a set of zero-hum single coils. Haha, thats great! That also looks really, really cool! Very cool stuff, man! NMA , Nov 22,
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