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Post subject: The Bridge Position Clean, Love It or Hate It
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 4:54 pm
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I was just wondering how other people use the bridge pickup. I mostly use it with distortion, but when playing clean I find it gets left unused many times. When I do use the bridge I find myself mixing it with other pickups.

Does anyone use the bridge pickup all by its self a lot with no distortion or effects? If so how do you use it and what is it good for? Also do you have a Fat or regular Strat.


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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 5:51 pm
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Sometimes Yeah. Ritchie Blackmore used the bridge pickup clean when he played.

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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 5:55 pm
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I use the bridge pup clean and with a bit of dirt, but not to much dirt. I roll the volume down to around 8, single note runs have alot of punch like this and it works great for funky rythms.


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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 6:25 pm
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I dropped a hot rail in the bridge, and the twang i get without distortion is awesome for surf. I play the bridge pickup alot


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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 6:58 pm
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Yea, but if your using a mini humbucker at the bridge your kinda cheating. I think the biggest turn off of a bridge single coil is how thin it sounds. A humbucker or mini humbucker really makes the bridge position sound much thicker, and sound better in my opinion. I am also a cheater with my Cool Rails in there. I think I am gonna be a Fat Strat man from now on. I mostly posted this topic to see what I would be losing.


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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 7:41 pm
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I use the bridge pickup, mostly for surfer music, with reverb (I have a HSS). Or anything I want to have a sharp bite in it.

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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 7:43 pm
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Yea, but if your using a mini humbucker at the bridge your kinda cheating. I think the biggest turn off of a bridge single coil is how thin it sounds. A humbucker or mini humbucker really makes the bridge position sound much thicker, and sound better in my opinion. I am also a cheater with my Cool Rails in there. I think I am gonna be a Fat Strat man from now on. I mostly posted this topic to see what I would be losing.


I would have to agree. I like the humbucker at the bridge, than a single coil, like my other strat.

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I use the neck p/up mostly for clean, rarely the bridge, because i like the blues. However, the bridge p/up does sound really good with a bit of dirt on it. It has The really nice fender sound. The tele probably has a better bridge p/up though.

But i like to experimnt, so i do occasionally use the bridge pickup on clean. Even though the bridge pickup is not my go to sound, i wouldn't like a humbucker. I like to make vintage sounds a lot so a strat has to be SSS. Some people like hss, and that's fine with me. I am just partial to the original strats.

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Post subject: Re: The Bridge Position Clean, Love It or Hate It
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 8:27 pm
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CloseYetFar wrote:
I was just wondering how other people use the bridge pickup.


Well, I always have "distortion" going. I use one channel Marshall amps, with that "cranked Marshall" sound, but I can get "cleanish" sounds by rolling the guitar's volume down to 5 or 6. Of course, that's not really the same kind of clean one gets with a real clean amp, but when compared with the volume 10 sound, it's "clean."

I mostly use the neck pickup, but when I need some real bite on some song passage, I use the bridge pickup.

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Absolutely. I might turn the volume down slightly and use it for different things other than the same leads I'll play on a clean neck, but it's a great tone for what it is.

In fact, to take the twang tone even further, I'll use it for some picked notes of chords here and there, and pick as close to the bridge metal as possible, to give it that really twangy, jangly sound. Just another tone to add to the many things a strat is capable of.


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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 9:33 pm
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So if you have a SSH with a humbucker in the bridge straight and not the slanted single coil, to me it destroys the authentic look of a Strat and really doesn't look like a Strat with that straight looking humbucker pickup in there. I like the authentic slant of the single coil bridge pickup, but you can always stick a hot Seymour Duncan in there and fits nicely still looks like a Strat and gives you more distortion. I decided to keep my stock bridge pickup in there and just bought a Fulltone OCD pedal and I'll use that just to get the overdrive. This is the pedal that Robin Trower currently uses to get his overdrive/distortion.

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The bridge pickup's great for a clean Albert Collins icepick tone.

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I think it’s great for rhythm and any type of country picking. I don’t play country but I do love to steal it’s licks. And apply them to heavier music

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Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 6:29 am
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It is great for volume swells...
And while you have the volume knob in your hand...
back it off so the humbucker isnt so "harsh" or loud do some harmonics...
Volume swells with harmonics & wammy with effects...
Makes for nice back ground sounds/ small parts or whatever.

If u have single coil in the bridge it has even more use
when playing clean in my opinion.

Besides next time u are playing clean & try to tune using
harmonics & u can't hear well in the room for some reason.
You won't notice urself do it but watch how fast u reach
for that bridge pickup so u can hear better. lol

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Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 6:55 am
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i personally love the sound of the bridge single coil, but i love the humbucker in there too! spose ill get a fat strat and wire up a coiltap. best of both worlds!


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