Do you, Do they
Do you, and do they, the famous ones, moves the your strumming/picking depending on the pickup selected? I know you can get sharp and soft tones by moving up and down the strings, further and closer to the bridge. But do you change this dependant on the pickup selected? I dont but just wondere if thats wot you were supposed to do, pick over the pickup selected!
# 1
Like with an acoustic guitar, you get a sharper tone if you pick closer to the bridge. You can use this to vary the tone of your sound. The pickup position enhances this effect. Depending on the kind of pickups you have, you may find that picking near the bridge with your neck pickup gives you a sharper sound than picking near the neck with your bridge pickup. It's just one more way to expand your tonal palette.
# 2
Hmm.. yeah i feel my gibsons dont have as great a difference between neck and bridge positions as Id like. I just wondered if the pickups were supposed to be doing the work or wether players in general raises or lower there picking upon changing pickup selection
# 3
Slapping the pickup selector and/or the series/parallel switch, and/or the phase switch is likely to take a lot longer than simply moving your pick a few inches along the strings. I choose pickups that let me get a lot of different tones without having to mess around with the switches. I have no idea what the stock pickups are, on my Washburn A-20CS, but I get lots of variety just by changing my picking position or the pick attack. That hasn't stopped me from loading up on switchgear - I like having options. :) Both of my Yamaha SBG1000's have 4-wire DiMarzio humbuckers with Phase & S/P switching, and separate tone and volume pots for each pickup.
# 4
Ya, most of the time I'll change how I strum or pick depending on the pickup selected. Different sounds, sometimes it doesn't sound good to thrash away when I'm using the neck pickup.
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# 5
I don't really do that, but when you see steve Morse, he doesn't play more than 4 notes on the same pickup...
# 6
A lot of times when I switch to my neck pickup, I'll strum over/around the 15th fret. It gives this warm shimmerry kind of tone...
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