For whatever reason, the five-way is almost alwys stuck in the middle on a Strat. Nice, balanced, clear sound, it's a fave. Hum? So what?

How's bout you folks, what's your fave setting(s) for the selector switch?

The neck pickup. It sounds great clean and awesome with some overdrive.

Depends on my guitar, effects, pickups, setting.

I find myself on the middle if I'm not doing any high gain lead stuff with my fenders. On my Jackson it never leaves bridge

I play alot on the neck only and use the bridge middle combo for my favorite quacks

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I'm not slow... and I'm not fast... just sort of halffast...

When I had the stock pups in my 1196 MIA, the middle pup was just the one I used to mix with the bridge or neck. I pretty much never used it by itself.

When I switched to noiseless Dimarzios, with their Area 67 in the middle, the middle pup is my favorite by a smidge. Compared to the Area 61 and 58 I have in the other positions, the Area 67 packs extra midrange that really cuts through and sings. Love it.

I suspect that whether someone finds the middle (forgotten) pup to be a strong choice singly, may have to do with what kind of pups they have.

That describes a lot of my playing too, though of course I use 'em all on occasion.

Nice to hear that not everyone is neglecting their solo middle pup.

Cheers - C

Neck Pickup. I use it clean and play blues with it, over a nice backing track. Heeeaaaaveeennn. :-]

I'm just the opposite. I use the outer two pickups, oftentimes together and the only time I use the middle pickup is when I'm playing a song whose tonality requires it to be teamed with either the neck or the bridge.

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I acutally use my neck and bridge for the most part but started playing with the middle pickup over the weekend and I think I'm going to start doing it more often since it sounded so good.

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Robin Trower has said many times that the middle is his favorite and that most everything on Bridge Of Sighs was done in the middle position.

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I am either on the neck or bridge 100% of the time. As a matter of fact the middle pickup on my strats are sunk as far as they can go. I played teles so long that when I got my first strat it was kind of uncomfortable to play because of the knob configurations compared to a tele and the fact that my pick would always hit into the middle pickup when picking. When I got real comfortable slipping my pinkie between the volume and tone knob I read an article with Richie Blackmore where he said the middle pickup bothered his picking so he sunk em so thats what I did . Years later I found out Yngwie does the same, he even goes as far as disconnecting them so I know there are more of us out there.lol

Paul Simon prefers the middle pickup too as does Graham Gouldman.

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Neck a bunch and middle,and like a little neck-mid too. Mike

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I use and like all 5 positions. My favorite this month is the neck pickup; but I spent years during the 80s when I only used the "quack" positions--2 and 4.

Pretty much on the neck but for heavier stuff I use the bridge I have a Highway One HSS. It is the only strat I have had the neck pickup is not to bassey.