Most of the time I use the neck pickup and, to a lesser extent, the middle pickup. I'm not much of a 'tweener tone guy anymore. I save the bridge for surf guitar!

it depends on what i'm playing. i usually keep it between the bridge and middle pup though.

-Jake

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Mostly the neck for a blues sound.
Middle in combination with bridge for a quack.
Middle exclusively for tuning.
Neck for a variety of sounds.

I never understood this either. On Teles I have always preferred the sound of the neck pup and on Strats either the neck or one back from the neck setting. Just sounds more raw and bluesy to me.

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What I really don't understand is the lack of people using the middle pickup alone. It's really a work of art. Loads of definition, no harshness of attack like the bridge pickup. Way more strident than the traditionaly weak mid scooped sound of a strat neck pickup. A perfect balance without any of the weaknesses of the bridge/neck combination of say a telecaster or series1.

Paul Simon (absolutely no slouch on guitar) uses it pretty much exclusively. To the point that his main strat only has a middle pickup.

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QUACK...

[quote="tdanb2003"]QUACK... [/quote

Very difficult to have quack with diminished mids. Never heard a neck pickup that quacks, thats the domain of the bridge pickup.

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I don't use bridge that much.

My favs (neck, mid and either pos 2 or 4 with bottom tone control on 10 and top on 3 for a jazzy feel).

Sorry Nick might have been a bit too cryptic. I use the bridge mid combo most often thus the "quack" comment. However I do use the bridge pup on leads in the band just to cut thru the mix. I just roll off the treble to about 7 or 8 so I don't get the fingernail on the chalkboard effect on auditory nerves. The neck pup is the domain of my more bluesy and jazzy moments. I rarely use the neck mid combo or the middle alone.

No need to apologize mate, sorry I took your message the wrong way. I sincerely thought you were responding to my previous statement. Must be them rolling eyes that always seem to look up.

Sorry once again mate.

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On my Tele Custom RI I mostly have it in the middle position for rhythm and cut to the bridge alone when soloing.

The neck pick-up never really gets used in my band, just clean when I'm widdling in the house. Nice and jazzy hum.

CC

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I use all my pickups, it just depends on what I am playing.

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I agree. I use the middle pickup for rhythms in songs where I just want to blend with the keys. Which is probably more than half the set. Another good thing about the middle pickup is that when using a wah pedal, you don't get too big of a low end woof in the heal position as you would get with a neck pickup, and it won't peel your face off like using a bridge pickup in the toe position.

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Neck and middle mostly on my Strat depending whether or not I'm using my old Fender Fuzz Wah, then the bridge pup is almost mandatory. It's a pretty heavy sounding pedal. On my Humbucker equipped guitars, I'm all over the place.

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I use all pup positions but mainly the bridge, I like a hard sound.

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