INCREDIBLE TONE - The Middle Pickup Secret - Kanji guitars
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- Опубликовано: 22 ноя 2020
- I am really enjoying this amazing ONE pickup Stratocaster! Have you ever seen a Stratocaster with only the Middle pickup? This tone is so amazing to me! Please tell me your thought.
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i just found that my middle pickup doesnt work, after i bought my guitar 20 years
Congratulations!!
replace it. plus it'll force you to be hands on with your guitar which is always a fun thing to learn
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@@TomoFujitaMusic I always just put on my leather pants, spray some Aquanet in my hair, keep it on the bridge and sing about sex, violence, fast cars, explosions, how it's hard being on my tour bus away from my baby, how great rock n' roll is and Satan.
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Did somebody say leather?
The middle pickup on a strat is insanely underrated. I would absolutely use a strat with just a middle pickup
Awesome!
For years my goto guitar was a tele, that I had installed a start mid pickup in the neck position, and a twang king in the bridge position. Loved it
I feel the same way about the middle pickup on my old Tele Deluxe
It does get used in funk. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I hear it in some Bruno Mars stuff.
@@invigatron A strat middle pickup in the neck position is just a neck pickup...
There's nothing inherently different about the middle pickup in a strat, they get their different sounds from their positions.
The percussion from that opening riff sounds amazing!! 👌
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7:46 using the same note in 3 different locations to move between positions.. this is a guy who really knows his fretboard
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@@TomoFujitaMusic im a year later but wow. Knowledge is power and the free wisdom you teach is free power.
What I love even more than your playing is your JOY while playing! Makes me smile everytime!
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Totally likeable guy! Feels like I just had a nice visit with a good friend.
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He really is!
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If you listen to Buddy Holly's That'll Be The Day Buddy uses the middle pickup on that song he also used black diamond flatwound strings I'm proud to say I was given a whole box of vintage strings from the late 40s early to late 50s and they still sound fresh
It happens in almost every TF video, and this one is no exception: a concentrate of great guitar knowledge with helpful hints (which can easily apply not only to guitar in my opinion...)
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Always loved when SRV would rip on the middle pickup. You're right about the older strats having beefy middle pickups without the shrill high-end of the bridge pickup
me after first hit: "wow that is a nice tone"
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Fabulous Thunderbirds era Jimmie Vaughan got incredible guitar tone from his middle pickup, which was wired wide open with no tone control.
Ha, I do the same. I didn't know he does that but I have no-load pots in my Strat and use that sound often. It gives more nuance when you touch the strings lightly.
The intro was so good how it kept going, couldn’t stop smiling
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The underrated middlepickup
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I honestly don't know why the middle pickup on strats get scoffed at. It has the best well-rounded tone.
@@eldritch6871 exactly, and the position 2 and 4 tones everyone drools over wouldn’t be possible at all if it wasn’t for the middle pickup!
I always use my neck and mid pickup on my Starts together . I almost never use the bridge pickup . After years and years of Strat playing , I find myself using a Tele more and more . At 72 years old I find myself using less treble , more Bass , and going for those pretty notes and chords !
@JM Coulon SD cool Rails or the Hot Rail humbuckers work well.
The bridge pickup in Strats is not great. That’s why when I finally bought a Strat, I made sure it had a humbucker in the bridge.
The only time I hear of the bridge being used it's with the middle pickup.
@JM Coulon yeah, changing to a hot rail or a lil 59 or something is really handy for taming the high end you already get from being in the bridge position, along with having no tone control usually. Adding a single coil on top of all that is really just painful to listen too when clean
I'm convinced this guy could make any guitar with any pickup sound good
Thank you!
I have learned so much from your videos!!! THANK YOU. It’s always fun learning from you
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Mr Tomo, your lessons are so inspiring! So much wisdom and tips to learn. I got my first american fender strat and it's so versitale. I love it!
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In an article I read about why the Les Paul Jr sounds so good it was mentioned that the part that people forget is that there is less wired circuit to cause the tone to be hampered in the way that a guitar's tone can be when there is more than 1 pickup wired up in the guitar. The bridge pickup on most Strats I've come across never really grabbed me unless the owner had be very judicious in picking out the pickups for each position so that each position could stand on its own merits sonically.
I'm perpetually amazed at how many guitars you own with so much genuine wear on them. I have one electric guitar that I play everyday and it doesn't have even slightly as much wear as all of yours. you must never stop playing!
It could just be down to the kind of finish your guitar has. Something like Polyurethane will keep a guitar looking as good as new a lot longer than one with a Nitrocellulose finish and is much less susceptible to damage. If you want a guitar to look old and beat up, you'll want to get one with a Nitro finish and play the hell out of it.
Kanji guitar is made like a vintage guitar. 5 years old... it looks like a vintage guitar. Any new guitar uses different paint material that it stays like many many years!
Another way for a guitar to age is getting a satin finished guitar. Glossy finishes tend to be way thicker
Man such a flex those legendary guitars!! So blessed 🙌🏽
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On 4th January 1987 I bought a brand new '57 re-issue made in Japan strat, but the serial number showed it was made in 1986, obviously as I purchased it in week 1 of that year. I still have it, and a few years ago, I gave it a service and decided to not use any of the electrics except for the bridge pickup attached directly to the output socket. I also screwed the pickup directly to the guitar body and the jack socket directly to the body without the pick guard. I had it in that configuration for a few years. It is now back to its original self. You have inspired me to try the other pickups on their own. Thank you Sir.
I have always loved the middle pickup, you have this rich, balanced tone, with 'spank', interesting!
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Roooooh it's been a very very long time I've been blown away by rhythmic skill 😎😎😎😎😎
That intro was truly amazing my friend,
CONGRATS 🤗
Thank you so much 😁
Glad that I found your channel - your thoughts on middle pickups are mine also. Thank you for telling the story.
Welcome aboard! Thank you so much! You're very welcome!
Dang, the way you tuck that pinky behind the fingerboard, such smooth technique!
Merry Christmas, Tomo!
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Middle pickup is vastly underrated, for sure. My next custom guitar will be an axe with humbucker bridge and middle pickups, with the middle pickup moved slightly up toward neck. But in a Strat with a hotter than standard pickup compliment, the middle pickup has a tone for solos that's unmatched. Smooth, singing, super melodic tone. Works great with heavy overdrive.
Thanks for sharing!
Dude. Finally some love for the middle strat pickup. I’ve always liked it better
Less interference in the tone pickup's magnetic field + less wiring = more tone and richer dynamics!! Thanks so much! I teach much more detail video lessons and super easy theory lessons at my Guitar Wisdom! Just added new lessons!!
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Lenny Kaye from Patti Smith’s band has been playing a single middle pickup Strat since the 1970’s. He calls it the “Unicaster”. In fact, I believe Fender did a short run signature model that looks exactly like this.
Awesome!
@Ben Miller Can you make a template by precisely tracing the existing pickguard in its entirety, except for the middle pickup slot (and eliminating ex.: the middle knob)-?
This is why I'm actually really loving the Cyclone's middle pickup. Lots of personality!
Awesome!!
Goku trains with more gravity. Tomo trains with fewer pickups.
"Sodom, named after sodomy. And Gomorrah... named after an even weirder move...."
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Strats...in the last 10 years, I've gone from being a 5 way switch guy to 3 way switch guy and using the middle pickup as my base sound. But, I did also change to a linear volume pot at the same time. Also run a tone control on the bridge pickup.
Nice playing by the way.
Awesome!!
I didn't realize what a fantastic rhythm player you are. Great stuff, Tomo!!
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I been playing for almost 20 years and the middle pickup is what I play 90% of the time. That tone is my ear candy.
You know good stuff so well!
It definitely can be liberating to have fewer choices! I really love the sound of a neck & bridge pickup together, though, so I've been hesitating to pare down to one pickup.
I have been following your channel for a long time. This is the first time I have posted a comment, what I have to notice is very interesting.Very simpatic Japanese English accent, even if it is not my native language I understand everything you say.
You are simply Guitar Jackie Chen :).
And there is no need to comment on the fact that you are an outstanding musician, professor and creator.
You are certainly an exceptional person, because I see that in your eyes, kindness and sincerity radiate from them.
This is definitely an interesting combination for a strat guitar.
cheers.
Don't worry! Don't compare! Don't expect too fast! Be kind to yourself!
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Great tone and awesome playing
Thank you!
Dude you are a guitar genius! Love your videos man!
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I modified my strat, by removing one tone pot, with master tone and master volume, moved volume down to the second hole, put a push-push switch that when on, with the selector on position 1, connects neck and bridge pickups, and in position 2 connects all 3 pickups. Do you want to hear a perfect funky tone? Neck and bridge pickups together on a strat.
As an almost intermediate, I‘m now on the way exploring multiple different wiring options and combinations on guitars. I like to work on guitars too, to understand better in depth how it's working beside getting better tone and playability.
Next I intent to explore the possibilities with just one pickup, one volume one tone only. I think then I will learn better the influence of picking place, pick angle, pick attack, in combination with the two pots.
Thank you for your explanations!👍🏼👏🏼
Greetings from Germany
Thank you!
I have a MusicMaster and I love it! The sound (as you said) is so pure!
And it's so flexible! You are right on track with everything you've said in this video.
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@@TomoFujitaMusic I just signed up! Thank you for making your knowledge accessible to all. And at a very reasonable price too!
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This inspired me to make a middle p90 only zombie tele out of my attempt to make 3 pickup tele. Really love the results. It really does feel and sounds free somehow.
Doug Martsch of the band Built To Spill has been playing a strat with only the middle pickup since the early 90s. He never removed the neck and bridge pickups, but he removed the selector switch instead. In the studio and live, he's always just used that one pickup. Agree that sometimes less is more! He's no Tomo, but he still sounds pretty good!
Thank you for sharing!
I own a 1966 Duo Sonic and two Music Master guitars (1975 and 1977). Both Fender models are underrated by the guitar community but can produce great tones. The single pickup Music Masters are my favorites. You are right, they make me work harder to get more music out of the simple set ups and I learn more. Also, the single pickup guitars seem to have a better tone.
Thanks for sharing! I love these vintage Duo Sonics & Musicmasters!
That Center pick up , I've been looking for all week. Been looking for a guitar set up like that , really !
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Recently discovered front n rear pickups turned up all way on my cheap les Paul sounds amazing. Used to set switch to front or rear (mostly front only) during practice ... Started practicing again after 10years
Very interesting the different uses of volume and tone control, PLEASE, give info about capacitor value and , if possible potentiometers too.
BTW, my favorite Strat pickup is neck position.
I'm not sure if I get the secret about the middle pickup but man, I love seeing your videos! So much learning and so much fun!!
I think the point is how simpler doesn't mean less versatile, so using one pickup not only for practice but also for just generally getting a good sound is really good too.
@@lukapejkovic918 also less pulling on the string equals better tone
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Less interference in the tone pickup's magnetic field + less wiring = more tone and richer dynamics!!
Having only one pickup forces you to learn how to use the vol and tone knobs plus where you pick is very important. Country back by the saddles and funky quack closer to the neck with everything else in between.
A good strat middle pickup is in the perfect position of harmonic overtones, has a natural boost in mid range, has the bite of the bridge and clarity with bass response of the neck pickup. It’s the one thing that people miss when they play a strat. Thanks for focusing in on a strat voice that is great for rhythm and lead sounds.
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Incredible tone,awesome!
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A friend of mine saw Trower in concert. Said the guitar switch was set for the middle position during the entire concert.
Awesome!!
Came for the tone, stayed for the amazing playing
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Very grateful for your insight, Tomo!
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Good job!! Thank you!!
Yeah tomo,I seen one pick up guitars with the pickup by the bridge and one pickup guitars with the pickup by the neck but in the middle man that's incredible!!! Your demonstration of the tonality was awesome!your explanations for everything was perfect, didn't seem like you was talking too much to me!! Yeah boy!
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I really like my 1 pickup guitars. They're all bridge humbuckers, but I like the sound you're getting out of that guitar.
Awesome!!
I just want to learn those "jazz notes" so badly. It sounds so great!
Just play a maj7 and go down the neck till it sounds good
My 1962 Strat has a MONSTER middle pickup! You are absolutely right!
Wow! Vintage Stratocaster's middle pickup! You can play it all day long!!
Awesome Tomo! It’s really eye opening to see how little changes in the volume and tone control can be more important than the pickup you’re using
Less interference in the tone pickup's magnetic field + less wiring = more tone and richer dynamics!!
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I love that 50s tone too Tomo. I do like a bit of reverb too, especially if my pickups are not too good.
Awesome!
This reminded me of Paul Simon's strat story... They were wiring it and tried with the middle pickup.... He said 'just leave it as it is, dont add nothing more. That's how he ended with his 1pickup, no pickguard strat :)
Awesome!!
awesome tones!! Nothing like the tone from a middle and neck pickup together
Thank you!
I think the 65 strat pickup in the middle is the best clean I have ever heard. It's such a beautiful, unreal clean tone.
Awesome!
While being a single coil the middle pickups offers a lot of the sonic caracteristic people usually search in the bridge position of HSS configuration.
The sound has a nice amplitude, is full of mid, there is still a lot of attack. There is a lot of contrast between the strat three pickups. One could clearly go through lot of songs jumping only from the bridge to the middle or from the middle to the neck.
I think it is over looked because of its position on the pickups switch. In the heat of a solo, it is pretty tough to jump from the mid to bridge (or the neck) and back to the mid in a flip of the hand.
So biomecanics is likely a reason why it is left aside, has it is left aside, players find more practical to have bigger sounding bridge pickups that bridge the toanl gap between neck and the (a litte to britlle) vanilla strat bridge pickup.
I think it could be adressed this way:
Put the bridge and neck on a 3 or 5 swith and have a push-push swith on the volume that allow to go from whatever position is selected on the swith to the middle pickups on its own. That way you can execute safely while you play.
Going further away from strat, for people playing with healthey amount of distortion all the time and sticking to humbucker, I wonder if they would be served better by a middle pickup than a neck pickup.
It might be even truer once you throw in low tuning.
Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for shining the light on 1 pickup tonal diversity and simplicity. I just discovered you tonight and I've really enjoyed you way of playing, teaching and using the equipment properly. It's added a solid confirmation to what I always believed which many of my fellow friends could never grasp. You have helped more than you will ever know! I will continue to watch your videos.
Less interference in the tone pickup's magnetic field + less wiring = more tone and richer dynamics!!
This way I can focus on my playing! I like less choices. Limitation is amazing!
sounds so great, Tomo! Love the @davie504 mention 20 minutes in too, haha!
Glad you liked it!
No bridge or neck pickup...look at the scratch plate to match! Beautiful! You said comment now, but after watching and getting to the section where you are happy if your family is happy, I love that part... also you're playing in so many styles...I'm listening to the slap pluck part like a bass player would use as a technique. You are so talented and so enthusiastic and you just seem so humble and nice and like you would be fun to spend time with. I can learn so much from you, I'm so glad I found your videos and subscribed. Thank you for your service to others, like a maybe intermediate guitar player, but I took care of my mom for many years and didn't get much time to play (it was well worth it because she was the best friend I ever had!) Now I'm in a nursing home at 49 yrs old and I have time but I can't stand up because of a back surgery. I'm going to figure out how to get comfortable enough to play well, and when I do I'm going to watch many of your videos. I enjoy watching you and listening to you talk, and play. God bless you and your family!🙏🎸☮️ I'm conflicted about the SSS and the single, but it's a beautiful sounding instrument whatever you play on it! I like the SSS too, and it makes a good mask... your sense of humor is great too, guitar is supposed to be fun right? You make it sound fun, that's what I want is to have fun playing... Jazz version of iron man lol... that's funny, your not talking too much.. probably I am talking too much if anything, I'm grateful to have found your videos, there are so many! You're just so cool in my humble opinion, nice guys are hard to find, no ego just playing and enjoying the instrument and the process of making videos for people, I just love it, Thank you very much man!
Don't worry! Don't compare! Don't expect too fast! Be kind to yourself!
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Less interference in the tone pickup's magnetic field + less wiring = more tone and richer dynamics!!
My bridge and neck are dead so I have been forced to fall in love with the middle pick up. It is very touch sensitive. You can really control your sound if you are forced in position to challenge your playing. It’s like an chef working with the local ingredients. Sometimes boundaries birth design language.
Limitation makes amazing effect!
The strat I have was pre-owned and I'm pretty sure the middle pickup either wasn't put in right or is busted cause it sounds really quiet and like its through a tunnel. I have a kit to sauter or however you spell it- is it possible to replace it myself? I got steady hands.
if the pickup is lower down then you can raise it up to gain more volume with the screws either side of the pickup. If the pickup is raised and volume still sounds rubbish, I would take a note of the wiring that its using to each pot then wire the new pickup exactly the same way, if the problem still occurs then the wiring is the issue.
Solder for future reference
Easy! How about this video?
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Everyone should experience the joy of a single pickup guitar. There’s so much you can do with the tone and volume pots.
A middle pickup only ES-335/ES-330 is another great one, and the vintage examples are the least expensive in that configuration.
Why shouldn´t you be able to experience the same thing on a dual PU guitar, if you you just select one of the PU´s ?
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Awesome video lesson!!! Thank you🙏🙏🙏
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I just transferred from acoustic to electric guitar. I don't know how to properly use the tone knobs, Trebble, bass, overdrive and reverb. I just can't find the right tone. It always seems that the tone is off. Pls make a video about. It'll be a great help
Well what kind of electric guitar are we talking about ? Is it single coil pickups or humbuckers ? Imo don't try to mess too much with the guitar knobs at first, have everything on 10 in your guitar, and try sculpting the EQ from the amp. Start with all of the EQ off or at halfway, then add/subtract things little by little accordingly. Reverb you don't want too much but you don't want a dry sound either, just enough to make your tone "big", have a slight slapback. Use your ears! There's no panacea you just have to sit down with your gear, mess with it and find a tone you like. Also maybe do some research on reddit to find people with similar gear you might get specific tips from them!
@@nabilkabbadj7759Thanks a lot dude. Will keep that in mind
The beauty of the middle pickup is that picking in different areas gives different tones. Closer to the neck is one and closer to the bridge is another and moving the pick between these positions are lots of different tones.
Awesome~
Excellent playing. Great video.
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Like someone else said - just feel like I had spent some time with a close friend. I would have loved to have had the opportunity to take lessons from this great player and teacher.
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Is it still a middle pickup if there are no other pickups for it to be in the middle of?
Very interesting, i got my first stratocaster this week!
Nice man! Im more of a tele gal myself but strats are always nice! (In my pfp its my shell pink strat)
Congrats!
@@leaderoftheitu Very nice, i got myself a jeff beck stratocaster in surf green.
I really love Shell Pink, I almost got one before i changed my mind.
@@bleromafia that’s awesome man, im a basic bitch who loves pink, my tele is a thinline shell pink deluxe 70’s vintera
@@leaderoftheitu shell pink on a thin line is groovy, I’d rock it!
The middle pickup is always my go to position on a Stratocaster. It has an output that is appropriate for any kind of music.
Awesome!!
When I started playing guitar I wanted more pickups but eventually I bought a used Junior and that guitar with its single pickup taught me more about how to play guitar than any of my complex multiple pickup and whammy bar models had revealed to me.
Awesome!
If I could only have one pickup on my Strat, it wouldn't be the middle. Neck all the way.
Something is missing. Two things, actually. What's up, Tomo?
Ok, so it looks a bit out of place, sort of like Jon Finn wearing a tux, but it SOUNDS great!!
I Love your Musicmasters in the back ground- Tomo , you are a very interesting Musician !!!
Thank you very much!
I truly appreciate ur work
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For some time I've wanted a loaded Strat pick guard with the neck and middle pick-up only wired with a 3 way switch one volume one tone. I almost never use the bridge pickup. It only sounds good if I dial my eq to the point where the other pick-ups sound horrible.
I’m about to try out a Seymour Duncan lil 59 or similar in the bridge for that same reason. I just don’t use it.
And I thought I had seen the weirdest guitars, until today.
Ha ha!
The most uncanny guitar I've seen was Joe Bonamassa's Les Paul that has only a bridge pickup, only two knobs, and a Firebird-style headstock. That carved expanse between pickup and neck cannot be looked away from.
I love my tele for the simplicity of the two pick ups. I always play it on the middle as it’s a hot rod so the neck pick up is a mini humbucker, the warmth and brightness using the single coil bridge combined with it is incredible
Awesome~
Yep - that middle setting was the one used for most of the recording Steve Cropper played on - so if he does it - well.......?
I'm more impressed by your right hand strumming funk technique. Awesome stuff! :)
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HE CHALLANGED DAVIE504...the game is on..
If Davie accepts, Tomo will have 500k subscribers by the end of the week. 200 iq move.
Ha ha! Thanks!
Oh my, Tomo just did a friendly challenge to Davie504 hahaha that's a fun little segment
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Wow I love that middle pickup strat. Might be the best I have heard. I could never find a strat that I liked wish I could get my hands on one of those.
Since I installed Eric Johnson pickups in my '86 Japanese Squire, I'm attracted to the middle pickup. Saw somewhere that having one pickup increases the attack and lengthens sustain, makes sense with less magnets pulling on the strings, invisible mutes. If you can have a Sustainiac influence the string to keep vibrating with varying magnets, a static magnet will influence the string into one position.
Less interference in the tone pickup's magnetic field + less wiring = more tone and richer dynamics!!
woh! new guitar tone. amazing!!
Less interference in the tone pickup's magnetic field + less wiring = more tone and richer dynamics!!
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Brilliant! Thank you.
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Sir 😊🙏 . You are an inspiration & institution for me . I’m so happy to connect with you . Namaste 🙏❤️
Thank you so much!
awesome, great video,,, and great playing,,, man,
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Middle one is my favorite one. Always been and perhaps always will.
Yes! Thank you!
When I used to play my strat in a rock situation I used the middle pickup pretty often. Solid and bright, less harsh than the bridge.
Awesome!
After all of these years! There are still things you can find in the strats that blows your mind!
Yes! Thank you!
シングルpickup！
とっても興味深いですね。
ギターの響がストレートに出てきそう！
自分のギターでやってみようと思います！ステキなアイディアをありがとうございます！
Less interference in the tone pickup's magnetic field + less wiring = more tone and richer dynamics!!
返信ありがとうございます！
まずは
他のピックアップを
限界まで下げてみました。
その効果は
驚きです！amazing！
磁力の強さは
想像以上に強い！
特にsingle pickupは強い！
素敵なアイディア
ありがとうございます！
気持ち良く
ギターが弾けます！
ウキウキです(笑)！
All you play sound great!
And all thegreat guitars🤪😍
Best regards from Austria!
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Nice Chic/Nile Rodgers' playing. I agree. I love middle pickups. Some old Gibsons had a single P90 in the middle and that pickup covers all the tones needed in my opinion.
Awesome!! Less interference in the tone pickup's magnetic field + less wiring = more tone and richer dynamics!!
Great video on minimalism! This reminds me a lot of the original Fender Esquire, where it's 1 bridge pickup only in a Telecaster style body and has a 3-way pickup selector switch which goes from [Tone Knob Disengaged] - [Tone Knob Engaged] - [Tone Knob + Capacitor engaged for warmer tone]. Killer sounding guitar.
Less interference in the tone pickup's magnetic field + less wiring = more tone and richer dynamics!!
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at the beginning I thought the playing was not so good but as it went on I realized it is pretty tasty
Thank you!