Why Single Pickup Guitars Sound Better!
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- Опубліковано 19 тра 2024
- Have you ever wondered why guitars with only one pickup sound ever so slightly sweeter? Here's why! ⚡️
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Holy shlt! I never believed this made enough of a difference to give up the middle position and neck pickup sounds... I just watched the comparison video, and I think you just convinced me to buy a Les Paul Jr, so thanks... I think...
No wonder my spongebob guitar sounds so good!
So logically, a guitar with zero pickups will sounds the best!
acoustic players rise up
Ha!
@@chrollo0427 that’s exactly what I was thinking 😂I guess acoustic is superior
If the player sucks yes.
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Metalheads taking about the purest tone from a pickup while they are plugging into 3 Metal Zones
You would pluck the sweetest smelling roses to turn them into rose absolu, would you not?
ALL THE GAIN!!!
Rofl
@@JeanMarceaux Hahahabaha
Yet metal is completely about tone….
When your store owner tells you to sell single pickup guitars or be fired 🤣
😂😂😂😂
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And if anyone can do it it’s this guy lolll
Theyre legit good. Less magnet pull that reduces sustain and can increase fret buzz. Also tonal restriction forced creativity
@skywalker3975 Every little thing matters. But each thing on its own can be eclipsed by other things. Basswood has agreeably plainer tone than ash, but upgrading the block and the inserts more than cancels oit the tonewood downgrade, so I'd always take the lighter basswood. One pup means less string pull so should mean more sustain, but then low action can negate the sustain boost. I'm convinced string pull increases fret buzz which is why pure nickel wraps always seem to buzz less for me on the same setup. Nitro is unsuitable as a finish imo, as it doesn't cure, so I don't want it, no matter how it contributes to tone. All this stuff is just for personal enjoyment of the guitar. I now have the EVH bumblebee.. basswood and one pickup, and a bright quartersawn neck and
"Mom I want russel brand"
"We have Russell brand at home"
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Haha true
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Yeah, that's another one of those things guitarists deduce in their head, which may be true on paper, but I can confidently say that no one would be able to tell the difference in a blind test.
You obviously don't know what you're talking about. Take a three pick-up guitar, a strat will do fine. Specially older ones from mid 70's. They are infamous for their string pull problem. Adjust the pick-ups close to the strings and you'll hear what is known under gitarists as 'string pull'. The magnets from the pick-ups are literally pulling on the metal strings, clearly influencing the vibration of the strings, especially the plain strings. It sounds really awfull. Only remedy is lowering one or two pick-ups substantially to eliminate the pull. But than you loose sustian on those pups. To be true, I never encountered the problem with Les Pauls or SG's with two humbuckers, but with strats... although I do have strats that don't have the problem, even with the pups adjusted closest to the strings as possible.
@@josschmitz9400 Older ones from the mid-70's? Yeah, because the Strat has changed SOOOO much over the years.
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Yeah, until I see someone pass a blind test, I feel very confident in saying it's not a thing people can actually hear.
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Just to be clear, I'm not saying that string pull doesn't exist. I'm very clearly saying it does in my initial comment. I'm saying that you won't be able to hear the difference between the same strat pickup with one, two, or all three pickups present, on a properly set up strat.
@@mayonaden String pull is caused by the influence of 3 pick-ups (magnets) pulling on a iron string. And you can defenitely hear it! Sounds awfull! Strangely, a guitar with two humbuckers (in fact 4 single coils atranged in pairs) or one with just 2 single coils, like older tele's, don't have the problem. It has nothing to do with 'correct' set-up.
Active pickups have entered the chat.
What I was thinking
Actives are actually much better in this case.
You see, most actives has much less wire and mostly weaker magnets. That should cause less electromagnetic resistance. Then they put this weak signal into amplifier. Which also filter low bass frequency.
@@marekw7562 I enjoy certain passive’s. But overall, I think active sound better. Seymour Duncan, and DMT have some great passive ones though.
I don't think Fishmans have any magnets??
My bad I guess they do..
The difference is so negligible, there's no point mentioning it.
The only person who will ever notice even a tiny bit, is the person playing it, and that's if they have a really good ear.
Your audience will literally never pick up on it (pun not intended).
What little difference there even is will most likely be filtered out after distortion and, even more so, after going through the sound system of wherever you're playing at and cutting through the buzz of people chatting or singing.
It will also help make the pitches slightly more accurate. Not something most would hear on a guitar with standard tuning, but on lower tuned instruments like 8 strings the accuracy of pitches becomes more important. Either way, it makes a significant amount more difference than tonewood does
If you're playing to an audience even the most sensitive ears won't notice it. You *may* hear it in production if its the only track playing, even then, I'd bet my arm no one can actually tell. The strength of those pickup magnets are so weak, and the neck pickup is usually further from the strings too
@@billysnooze6608 Thank you Sir for your brilliant explanation here sir. I learned alot!!!
if Eric Johnson's ears haven't discerned any difference, I'm not gonna bother.
RIP Alexi Laiho, his single pickup ESP signatures are still to this day one my absolute favorite guitars of all time
Shit, I didn't know that he had died! RIP
They are awesome axes. Yes I love single hums and yes tone is probably more direct and signal is better with single hum
I bought his signature V for $200 and later sold it for $300
Biggest mistake I ever made. The horns on the body were perfect, not a single chip.
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@Michael Myers I understand how ya feel, I wish I never sold my 1st guitar, such a dumb mistake 💔
Eddie van Halen started it in 79 with bumble bee charvel and all through the 80s besides Frankenstein 🤘
I seriously doubt that would make any noticeable difference
I mean, it does injure your sustain
Only to the guy that owns it. Let's see someone guess off a recording
Yep that's BS. He just made up "tone magnets" 😁
And yet it does.
It definitely doesn’t in tone or feel, completely psychosomatic
It’s so minimal that it’s negligible
That was some bro science if I ever heard one 😂
The distance of the pickups from the string is key.
It’s also cool to just play. I used to have a guitar with so many different combinations I spent more time flipping switches then playing guitar.
That’s what I crave lol. Every pull and push pot, every spit coil every mod that adds switches. I crave it 😩
@@glizzygoat imma get you a hardtail strat with one sigle coil and one volume
@@kelvinklauck get me one too while you're at it.
@@glizzygoat i could easily spend $75or more on just pots and switches for a build where i have weird ass wiring, it’s an issue
LMAO that's how I feel about the jazzmasters there's literally like 40 different selections it seems like you can do
If you are worried about this you can always remove one of the pickups in your current guitar . . .
Then you have a special Skittle compartment for snack time.
Or you could put a little figure in the empty pickup spot. I forget what guitarist did that but I remember seeing it.
@@paulillingworth90 Phil X is the man!
Sadly, he said switching to the Spiderman didn't do anything.
@@topbreak38 oh wait it was Phil ex with a Wolverine figure right? He was the guitarist I was thinking of I think lol
@@paulillingworth90 Yes! I think he had one guitar with a Wolverine and one with a Spiderman. Can't exactly remember right now.
Haha thanks this made me laugh 😅😂
It has more to do with the resistance of the additional pots that tend to come along with additional pickups.
I would wager you are correct
That Kramer is SO CLEAN
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"It wequires 12 skins"
"Vewy foolish words my fwend"
"Who's the old lady?", "That's my old lady".
Haha PARTY TIME, EXCELLENT!
"When did you become a nutbar?"
Pretty interesting for someone locking everything down with a Floyd and turning the gain to 11 lol
Some people like the crisp tone of the floyds. I do, even if I won't use the whammy bar at all
@@gonza.shreds Crisp tone of a Floyd? They are notorious for dulling the sound a bit (when floating) because the bridge gives way just a little bit.
@@gonza.shreds wow, i never realized that the bridge was a tone filter! Learn something stupid every day I guess.
@@bigchiefsmackaho387 No bro nothing else matters apart from amp for sure :)
@@bigchiefsmackaho387 Go and listen to a les paul with a floyd rose but make sure you have cleaned your ears before
I think more important than the pickup is your playing skills.
That Kramer is a badass
Don’t be worrying about this, just play. If anyone tries to talk to you about the type of wood mattering for anything except cost and weight push them into a lake and keep practicing
Respect to people who get awesome tones from single pickup guitars (RIP Eddie), but I love the Slash-Steve Vai neck pickup sounds
You do know they make single neck pup guitars, right?
Whole different lane man lol
Eddie still a warm sound. It wasn't the overly shreecky treblely 80s tone.
Chuck!
Eddie was the reason most Kramers only had one pickup. He wanted them to make the Frankenstein, but they thought it wouldn’t sell. They made a shiny one-pickup guitar as a compromise, the Beretta.
That Kramer is gorgeous
I think having a pickup wired directly to the output make the most difference. Doesn't have to go through as many things and diminish your tone
That is the real difference. I've heard Nashville session guitarists tend to wire bridge pickup straight to output on teles for recording purposes.
Wha... i cant even try to begin explaining how wrong that is, tonewood for the win
@@matejcevnik7362 Come back and join the discussion when you're older and smarter.
@@calebdelfs1491 dude all your experience is just entrenching yourself in a myth that sounds good to you, id rather be inexperienced than experienced and wrong.
But whats the meaning of “more tone”? There is no “more or less” tone, just better or worst tone 🤣
Total BS in my humble opinion!
Not BS because physics….but also not a deal/tone breaker.
Just like tone wooda
Dude, this guy is British!
Just saying
@@18JR78 As someone who has looked into this extensively, yes, it is physics. However, the tension produced between the bridge and the tuning pieces has way more to do with it than anything else does. The magnetic pull pickups have is not meaningful enough for the majority of people to ever notice. Most professional studio musicians can't tell the difference for that matter.
Adam D from killswitch caprison guitar agrees. His guitar is the "loudest" I've ever played. The most tone I've ever heard out of a guitar
I seriously doubt any part of this is true. I'd be surprised if the effect those magnets have on the vibration of the string was at all noticable without extremely high precision measuring equipment so if there really is a sound difference just based on the AMOUNT of pick ups that they have which i don't know if there is, it's probably not caused by the magnets. Would be interesting to see your sources on this
You won't hear a difference, but the magnets add a sort of tension to the strings that affects also things such as fret buzz. So it will play different, which makes you sound different, eventually (since your playing changes as you follow your kinetic inputs).
This was debunked by a guy who placed a huge powerful magnet to a guitar and still nothing noticeable happened
It’s a pretty good theory!
But at the end of the day, you can always use your EQ and some editing magic if you have a DAW and probably works just as well.
Sound is sound.
Agreed. This is all made up
It is subtle but true. Especially a stock strat. The very end of a note loses sustain and goes a hair sharp. Why do different types of magnets sound different in pickups?And small details add up
Also, something a single pickup encourages a player to do is really understand and hone in on that particular guitar's sonic character via Tone and Volume knob adjustments for different songs/song sections.
It also pushes a player to lean more into developing their playing technique, finding new and different voicings, and efficiently using the whole fretboard to create better tones/overtones, sustain, finding sweet spots on the instrument, developing confidence, etc.
Of course, there's nothing at all wrong with multiple pickups or lots of tone options (knobs, switches, push-pull, pedals, amps, etc), but sometimes having less to work with concentrates your ears and fingers into getting the very best sound out of your "limited" options.
That guitar looks awesome. What model is it?
It's the song, baby. No matter how great of tone or technique a player has, it's still the song. 3. Be the best player you can be. 2. Stay close to the songwriter. 1. Be the songwriter.
From what I’ve heard, SRV lowered his pickups to allow for a fuller vibration of the strings. Which also gives the strings a longer sustain.
He was also using massive strings, so that might have something to do with it too.
@@XChristianNoirX .013-.056, with a wound third. Lowered pickups, a massive neck, and a goofy thing I noticed in a rare picture from behind: SRV had 5 springs on the tremolo block, instead of the usual 3. Hmmmmm . . .
@@righthandwolf306 5 for making the bridge essentially a fixed bridge I assume...
@@XChristianNoirX It does add some tension to the block, but the tremolo is still functional. I suspect the extra coiled mass helps with generating harmonic and subharmonic frequencies that can fatten the tone.
@@righthandwolf306 its still functional if you loosen the claw enough.. But it's usually used to make a fixed bridge out of a fender trem.
Billy Corgan uses 5 springs to make his bridges fixed in his 57 strats. Did the same to mine years ago and it works. I never use a trem on a Strat unless it's locking trem like a Floyd. Regular Strat trems are too unreliable.
I think the additional wood has quite a bit to do with it as well. You’d be surprised at the tone difference if you started hollowing out pickup cavities. I love a nice heavy guitar. They call it Tone wood for a reason 😅
Alexi Laiho (RIP) had a single bridge pickup. One of my all-time favorite guitarists.
I love how purposeful a single-humbucker build is, especially when you know your tone is always going to be at 10. But I also love the tone options we get with 2 and 3 pickup guitars! That's why guitar is so great: Even if you have an absolute favorite spec, there's a lot of good options worth exploring on the other side of the fence. Rock on, Dagan and peeps!
Why have a tone knob in the first place? Lol its never used in metal.
@@JV8901 nah man there's actually a huge variety of sounds used in metal, it's surprising as hell when you first hear it but then you find more and more of the like
I was in the market to get a Les Paul junior years ago. Discovered that I need the neck pickup too so I got a Special instead. Never looked back.
I remove the bridge and middle pickups from any guitars I own with pickgaurds, though not because of string pull - because those pickups are useless to me.
Based
These are the kinds of videos that keep Gibson and Fender happy.
I have never once in my life thought “man this sounds great, a tone that good could only be from a single pickup guitar”
You’re not a punk rock fan, I take it
I dont think anyone has ever wondered that 😂😂nor have i heard ANYone talk about that.
I've actually heard a lot of discussion about it. My playing is nowhere near that level of playing, so I'll need my multiple pickup choices.
This has come out a lot in a sustain related discussions. Don't believe the difference was significant enough in a lot of scientific and not "feel" related tests.
You know? I just love every guitar so it doesn’t matter to me
This is the right way! Everyone else going into a keyboard war 🤣
This guy has that "I had to beat them to death with their own shoes" vibe 😂
I wondered why some people prefer to buy or mod their guitars with only one pick-up. Now I know why, thanks.
“PUREST… vibration of the string” 😁😄
Yeah, that's ridiculous. Smh
@@majesticpbjcat7707 how
@@scottmatznick3140 because any difference between single pup or dual pup and how the sound reacts in regards to what he's talking about is completely negligible.
@@scottmatznick3140 it's pretty obvious that's just nonsense.
Nothing can satisfy a purist 😂😂
I got a single pickup charvel model 1 San Dimas and I love it. Had it for 30 years still looks and plays fantastic.
I did this with my strat, took out the old ones and got a rly nice Seymour Duncan. Sounds awesome, plays awesome
Regardless of if you can hear the difference, a real difference is made by the electrical signal from the pickup traveling through the pots. The pots sap a bit of the “heat” of the pickup, lowering the overall output. The fewer pickups, pots, and overall wiring it has to travel through, the truer the signal
Exactly. This is why an Esquire sounds different to a Telecaster. Nothing to do with that pissy little neck pup holding back the strings.
The less shit the signal has to go through, the purer the tone.
I once messed with one of my guitars wiring, basically turning it into a zero knob guitar with no tone or volume, just straight pickup to output jack, and it sounded cool but a vol knob is very important to me so i put it back on.
@@DaisyHead666 a really interesting guitar is the Music Man Stephen Egerton model. It has 1 pickup and nothing else at all.
Oh I thought it was the magic tonewood
@@voiceofexperience its both.
One of the best guitars I had was the Chuck Schuldiner BC Rich Stealth, one X2N humbucker. The real reason why they sound good is because of how there isn't a huge chunk of wood missing
Wood has nothing to do with the tone of an electric guitar because it's not an acoustic instrument
@@WearyKirin wood has a lot to do with tone in an electric guitar.
@@chance2smoke is that why the only output on 99 percent of them is from magnetic pickups that only care what the string itself is doing?
@@WearyKirin ... And what affects the strings? Let me walk you into it. Wait. Let me brush those sticks and leaves out of the way sir.
If you can improve how the strings resonate... Yadda yadda yadda bing bang boom.
I don't know what to tell ya, guy. What are your opinions on bone nuts and those little string tree things?
@@chance2smoke unless if your guitars neck is literally flopping everytime you pluck a string the effect the wood has is neglible
I had a single pickup SG (one hum bucker ) and it sounded badass
I've had, and have been playing my Kramer Focus 1000 since 1984... 38 yrs later, it doesn't even think about going outta tune!! Plays like a hot knife thru butter! ✌🥴💨
“Tone is in the hands”
(ducks for cover to avoid objects thrown)
His mother's father was Russel Brand
His father's father was Ronnie James Dio
made me spit my coffee
😂
His mother was Tony Iommi
The real advantage of single pickup guitars is they look awesome, and that will make you feel rock and roll and confident.
Love how clean an Esquire looks in particular.
Imagine a solid able pickup to change position in the body
You know I've never even held a guitar with one pickup before!
Yes you have.
Love one pickup electric guitars, my favorite
I personally like the sounds produced by a neck/middle blend or a bridge/middle blend. When you “rhythm” with one of those options and “rip” with a single pickup during a solo section, it provides a nice separation in the tones to individualize the guitar tone for each part of the song.
Leslie West from Mountain jamed a les Paul single pickup on one of the all time famous Riffs. Mississippi Queen!
Like "Tonewood" and "Tubes/valves tone" ... is a MYTH.
You cannot hear a difference, the magnetic field on a pup (despite how hot it is) is not thaaaat strong to make an audible "statement"... is a pretty weak pull and vibration is almost not affected .
I get it tho , people listen with their eyes now a days ...
Ps ( if you have extra pickups laying around i encourage you ,community ,to run some tests , there are videos teaching how to do it and how to test magnetic fields and all that stuff)
YOUR TONE IS YOUR PICKUPS , YOUR SPEAKER CONES AND IN 3RD YOUR AMP . (yes in 3rd).
Facts
Put a single coil neck position pickup 1 millimeter away from the strings and you'll hear a weird warbling sound. It's not as noticeable with humbuckers
Nice, already looking forward to the next episode of "bro science" lol
My very first guitar was one humbucker just like shown there and I love that sound was so clean and smooth
I use a Mono bag for my main guitar. It came with a hard shell, but the soft bag is so much more convenient.
Il let you know what I think…. That guitar is gorgeous 💜 👌
EVH only had one pickup - nuff said.
His guitar had 2 pickups. Bridge hum and single neck. Even if only the bride was wired, and neck was there just to confuse people. Don't count here, the magnet pull still remains from both pups ;-)
Oh so that's why EVH has the world's muddiest shittiest tone... Oh wait he only had one... Damn... It's just shitty on its own
PHASER AND GAIN SET TO 10 YEAH BRUTHER
I believe it is also to do with the electrical resistance of the extra pickup and pots. I once wired a p bass pick up straight to the jack and it sounded incredible!
Adam from killswitch uses a single pick. He said. “More wood more tone”
^I just heard him say this in an interview a few days ago…. It’s super interesting!!
"More sweeter..." Oh no. And he's British.
The sound is bigly,, 😆))
I caught that too.
😅 LOL I'm British, too! And yeah, we do say sweeter a lot! 😁👍
I played the 1954 Gibson Les Paul junior. So I think the single humbucker PAF. That's total sweetness.🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶😎
I've had this experience myself. I had a single bucker Charvel that came with an old JB, probably wound by hand in the 70s. The guitar sounded incredible no matter what bridge pup I had in, be it Duncan, DiMarzio, etc. Then I decided to have the ax routed for a single coil in the neck. It destroyed the tone. I tried many combinations of pickups including EMGs and could never get it to sound good again. If a guitar sounds good off the shelf with more than one pickup and that's what you want then buy it. But if you get a single bucker ax don't rout it for more pickups. It could ruin the tone.
damn i remember when i first saw your videos when i was maybe 12. im an adult now and you seem to have aged too, time flies. good to see you're still guitaring :)
PFFT! When i hear someone say "why are the other PUs there anyways cuz you never use em..."
i say GROW UP!
no
Neck pickup entered the chat.
It’s also due to the amount of wiring in the guitar. The less wiring, the better the overall signal. You could make this even better by wiring the bridge directly to the output jack.
"Single pickups sound the best!"
Said while showing and emphasizing a humbucker... 🤦♂️
he’s talking ab configuration clearly
Hes not talking about single coils, he means have one sole pickup onto the guitar instead of say a standard les paul which has 2 or a strat which has 3
Single PICKUP. Not SINGLE COIL.
That's what I was thinking. Say what you Want, but that's double the magnets. Lol
The logic here is that they're pulling more evenly onto one area. The humbucker's paired coils are close enough that they're not pulling at the middle or neck area like a separate pickup would. It's probably a neglible difference 99% of the time (though it may help with sustain as another pointed out; I'd be interested in seeing that tested), but if we can agree that that's the point being made, the humbuckers don't poke too major a hole in things.
I think a more interesting question is angled vs parallel pickup placement, as that difference is much more noticeable. But of course, technique is number one, amps second, guitars third, little tweaks to the equipment like this take 4th.
Yeah I just dont like how they look though seems funky and for some reason single pickup guitars look like a beginner guitar to me just seems like those junior models. I mean it makes sense you've got more body thats not routed out plus the magnets aren't messing with the strings and I mostly just use the bridge pickup anyway but it just looks weird to me for a regular guitar but have been wanting one of those mini vox guitars just for something a little more portable and I believe those only have 1 pickup :b
Yea but that’s just your ego brain because literally NOONE except a guitar player will look at your guitar in the studio or on stage and judge anything based on its pickups ….
Alexi Laiho with his single pickup LTD has played some of the best pirate riff's ever so I support it, maybe it's the style of playing that blends better with one
Well suited as to rhythm guitars
My sons steve vai guitar has 5 pick ups explaine that boi !!!!
What’s to explain? There are four pick ups he’ll probably never use.
@@PaintHerWhite haha
Nope... 😂
From a physics standpoint it makes sense. More magnets of the same strength at the same distance stop vibrations of the strings more.
@@kaedeschulz5422 conceivable but not at all noticeable. Unless your pickup is way way too close already. The real reason to get one of these is because who doesn't lock it on the the bridge and chug like hell
@@thesedarkthingsclone Just saying that physically it makes sense. Yea true it doesn't make enaugh of a difference with a proper setup.
Makes sense, an external force acting on the strings would probably lessen sustain slightly. Someone should do an experiment on this
I always thought it was because there’s extra wood in the middle, where other pickups would normally be , which is a crucial spot for tone on the guitar
Thank u sooo much for the information ❤
I never thought of it that way but that's a good explanation for the Telecaster sound!
Its funny you mention Angus though because he was usually playing to a rhythm guitar with only one.
I have to have a neck pickup!!! Love the bubbly triplets!! You’re tripping bro!!
I believe the resistance added to the circuit by the toggle switch, additional potentiometers, and another pickup would be more of a factor then the magnetic draw of the pickup.
Gary Moore had a charvel with a single pickup he'd play live with. Had an incredible tone.
I wish there was a guitar with a sliding pickup
you could test this by constantly strumming on any guitar and putting a strong magnet under the strings and seeing if it makes any noticeable difference
I love single-pickup guitars. Even better when they have a single volume knob. Just plug and play.
In the end, it doesn't even matter! It is what works for you!.
You move like Jack Sparrow… I mean, it’s totally a compliment. It’s so cool.
I always wanted a HSH style guitar… I must be really magnetic!
There have been a few recent prog metal albums that riff on the neck pickup instead of the bridge and it absolutely slaps.
As an amateur/hobby guitarist, i think there are so many other variables that I would never even notice the difference.
I'm getting my first single pickup guitar soon. A custom build from a friend. Can't wait for it.
Huge "I used to be a jack sparrow character at an amusement park" vibes...
Don't know if they sound better but V-shaped guitars with only one pickups like Alexi Laiho's signature look really sick.
I have noticed that. Always wondered why. Thanks for clearing that up for me! I thought maybe the magnets messed with each other or something.
Tbh, I always chalked the difference in tone up to there being less wood to resonate in the guitar when you have more pickups.
I have a 1981 Gibson Sonex Deluxe 180 with just the bridge pickup with the neck pickup removed. Been doing it that way since the early 90's.