Which is treble pickup

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Funny though, my dad refers to pickups not as neck or bridge but as rhythm and lead. I'm an idiot. I love the woodiness of the neck pickup and the growl of the bridge pickup.

For a rhythm loop I would use neck or mid position, and lead attempt anyway. I use the neck and bridge. I'm learning how to incorporate the use of the volume tone and pickup position. Slightly different on 'Open Mic' depending on circumstances.

I keep my 2x12 Music Man combo set to; Treble : Mid : 0. Bass : 0. These are usually 'On' and 'Off' respectively. With this basis I can go from the most mellow, soft Jazz-tones to full-blown, balls-out 'Blues Breaker' crunch without having to go near the amp. The rest of the time I use the mid-position - again mixing all the knobs to get the required result - and only regularly use the bridge on its own for very biting lead lines I thought I was bad until I saw a live clip of Gary Moore playing 'Jumping at Shadows' where, during the solo, he changed his knob settings pretty much non-stop!

EDIT : Here it is. This is an absolute masterclass of how to find any tone you like from just p-up selection, knobs and pick-attack. It's the Ex-Peter Green '59 just in case you didn't know More detailed: when I play in higher registers, above 10th fret I switch to neck pickup to compensate the highs, below that it's through the bridge pickup.

Learnt this practice from Steve Morse, and it works great for me. Pedals: TS gain at 8, tone at , level at 8 ; MS gain at 2, all tones and attack at 8, level at 8 ; noise gate at minimum, then some light chorus and analog delay set for slapback. So yes, the neck pickup is generally more bassy, but it's the balance of harmonics that really changes the sound. And that balance also changes as you move up the neck - less so for the bridge you can see from the picture, but very much for the neck giving some wonderful tones with barre chords above 10th fret as used by many jazz players.

The sound from the bridge pickup generally has more treble and "bite", whereas the neck pickup has more bass and sounds more "rounded". Each sound has its use. Pups pick up vibrations from the strings and turn them into electric signals going to the amp. If a pup is under a string where the vibration moves the string less, as in close to the end, it results in a loss of bass tone.

So, even with identical pups, - as in the majority of guitars- the bridge pup is under the part of the string which vibrates less, for the want of a better word, than the neck pup, which is nearer the middle of the string, so will see larger vibrations. So, the sound from it will be mellower, more bassy, richer. Add in the modern approach of using different pups in each place, often with phasing facility, and it's a whole new can of worms.

Sound from bridge pickup has more treble and it is often used as lead tone and rhythm playing while playing heavily distorted. Sound of neck pickup has more bass in it sound and is often used as clean rhythm and heavily distorted lead tone. Gibson called neck pickup rhythm and bridge treble but this was misleading for beginners playing modern music.

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