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The 5 Strat Pickup Positions
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A closer look at the unique voices of each of the 5 positions of a Strat pickup selector switch, and some ideas for why and how to switch between the different positions whilst playing blues.
lol "Come home for lunch!". In all seriousness though, I love the sound of the middle pickup, it's a very underrated sound to me.
P5-full body tone
P4-Chords
P3-a lot of punch but not muddy
P2-Twangy sound w/o punch
P1-Accent
Coming from an acoustic with my first Strat, this is invaluable material and I've got enough here to keep me busy for a while. Your descriptions and demo are perfect. Thank you.
Very excellent video...God's continued blessings and I never saw a individual who fully integrated and so effectively used this 5 way Switch. Pretty amazing skill and tone matching and playing so GREAT at the same time.
1:50 Gotta love how you describe pickups 😂
Just bought an amazing sounding silvertone SS10 at a local pawn shop. After setting it up I started playing and was immediately confused by the 5-way switch. Thanks for this video! Helped me understand things better
What a great lesson, never thought about changing pickups on the fly! Now I can milk more tones out of my Strat. Thanks!
Really cool video!! If you could make another in the same way about how to use the differents knobs of tone and volume with the five positions switch it would be really great. A lot of people using Strat put everything full or down because they don't know how to employ them. It's sad, they loose an incredible variation of sounds with this marvelous guitar. Thanks in advance. I share your video on the Facebook guitarists walls where I am. Best regards from Belgium :-)
Position 2 sounds really Robert Cray to me.
A great video...good reminder that when your tone is not quite what you want, you could maybe get there with a quick flick of the wrist.
love all strats position switch
Finally somebody taught me this stuff and I’m an old man. Thank you brougham.
Great 101 lesson on switch position and application!!!
No waisted time.
Thank you.
Patrick
I like calling the "neck-middle" position the John Mayer spot
I like that setting myself, except I hate John mayor. Him and that dueche canoe that fronts Nickleback.
@@keonigray3022 John Mayer is probably the best guitar player of this generation man, ignore the pop stuff that made him famous and watch his live performances and you'll understand
Up you go!!!!!
Then the neck pickup the SRV spot.
Gotta call it the John may-aah like he would sing it🤣
Awesome lesson! Love learning about the nuances.
Nice approach by linking the sound to a human voice - more understandable that way, I think. In a standard Strat setup, the 2 and 4 positions are hum cancelling. This actually produces a humbucking pickup by using 2 pickups with hum cancelling properties. This ability makes the five-way switch a really versatile item, as it gives the Strat a humbucker-type tone. The earlier Strats only had a 3-way switch, so the 5-way was an important improvement. Great video as usual--thanks.
I get ya . Nice.
No, a Strat will never have a humbucking sound. I even have a SD Little 59er humbucking in the neck position of my Strat and it never will sound like my Les Paul.
@@FrapzoidI totally get that a short scale guitar like a Les Paul has it's own flavor and sounds different from a Strat, especially when playing it yourself instead of just listing to a recoding of it.
Have you heard the Red Special? Or even understand what a humbucker is?
I like to think about switching to positions 4, 3 and 2 like shifting gears in a manual transmission. Not sure if it helps, but makes it feel more fun... Lol.
Anthony, I sent you an email quite a while back about making a video on this exact subject! This was great and very well explained. Thank you!
great representation of each selection and pickup...thumbs up!
ITS ALL ABOUT THAT 4TH POSITION BABY
I can't be the only guy whose neck tone is almost exclusively knocked down to 0 or near 0, and bridge tone around 10 or just under if I want to take off some highs. I then use bridge pickup as the searing punch-through tone, especially to accent strong bends. Bridge-middle gives me a twangy almost country type nasal sound that I'll use for main chord work in my 4-piece band. Middle I rarely use. Neck-middle gives me a smoother rhythm sound when I want my chord work to drop back in the mix, or when my other guitarist is doing solo work. Then neck gives me a sort of, hard to describe exactly, smoother sound that I use on some leads with high distortion. The tone makes me think of some stuff Bonamassa does, but I can't put my finger on exact examples at the moment.
Yes I like the cut throughitness of the mid pickup for lead type rhythms
Hey Anthony. Have you ever heard of Stevie Ray Vaughan?
Bapalapa30 Who?
Texas Blues Alley ROFL
Bapalapa30 I got the joke :-)
Not a problem brad. As long as you use it on people like Peter lol
Nice vid, very important for people to unlock the full power of the strat!
You have the perfect SRV sound. What overdrive pedal do you use through what amp?
@FalconerPhoto LMFAO
Which gives you the most of the "quack?" 2 and 4? Kind of sounded like it🤔
Lol the mid pick up is like ur mom yell at you, wuahahahah, awsome video sir.thank u
Wow dude, always amazing and obviously.. Amazing tone!
Great video. Just wish more songs were in the examples besides Stevie Ray Vaughn.
Fantastic lesson
Mom calling for lunch...I'd been Wondering a way to describe that tone, may use that😆😁
“Many of you have already picked up the the switch”. Lmao this guy sounds like my dad lol
Don't think I've ever heard anyone describe positions 2 and 4 without using the word "quack". It's the out of phase wiring of two pickups in those positions that give the quack.
You're tone is awesome. I'd be stoked to get close to it. What pickups and amp are you using for this lesson?
Andrew moreno This is a Zexcoil underwound set. The rest of the gear is listed here: texasbluesalley.com/woodshed/free/the-5-strat-pickup-positions
@@Texasbluesalley goldmine! thanks!
Nice play and explained good way. My strat have noise on pisytion 1,3,5 and 2 and 4 is quite who knows what is wrong and how fix this? Help
Literally EVERY single coil pickup tends to have this noise, it's called HUM, but the middle pickup is reversed in polarity and phase compared to the others, and in 2 and 4 positions they're connected together
Reversed polarities + Out of phase connections = Hum cancelling
The same as a Humbucker do, despite humbucker coils are connected in series within each other while strat ones are in parallel
This is how all guitars with 3 single coil pickups are. Positions 1, 3, and 5 are only one single coil pickup (which will always have some level of noise/hum). Positions 2 and 4 are two single coil pickups blended together, which cancels out a little bit of the noise the same way a humbucker does, though it might still have a little noise.
Fastastic video... Thank you so much!
How do you just know to play all those licks? Like at the beginning you were just strumming away, Pulling them out of thin air. That's what I'm trying to accomplish but I'm stuck. Any tips?
Tyler Shupenia Lookup my video "The Improvisation Myth", and "You Gotta Hear It". Those two videos explain what's going on in my brain while playing off the cuff like that.
Cuthroughitness! Nice word .✌
Very useful and informative video. Thank you!
he sounds like anthony from linus tech tips
Oh hell yes
hey anthony. i play acoustic and i am getting into electric guitars, my friend gave me his 07 standard strat which he never plays. im not sure if the problem is that im not good yet with electric, but my strat sounds really... toneless. It doesn't have that sweet tone and ring to it as other strat guitars ive heard on you tube. Could it be the bridge/tremolo is not setup right? or what do you suggest it is?
that's a Beautiful wood finish on that guitar
The favourite Bryan Adams's songs is position No.2 (bridge + middle).
Great video. Thanks for this, from a piano player.
Great video, thank you.
so the middle pick up is in between the first 2 sounds
For anyone wondering, Anthony is using Zexcoil pickups. I would assume he's using the custom set he combined: texasbluesalley.com/oldtonezone/gear-index/zexcoil-pickups-custom-set
Ben Thomas This is actually my Grosh with an Underwound set in, but you can't see the rest of the guitar so there'd be no way to tell which it is.
Thanks the the info! I see the change on your website now. They sound awesome.
Thanks Anthony !
I appreciated learning about the different switch positions. Do you know anything about the tone control that's furthest away from the pick up that you can push up or down for different sound?
Great lesson!
Great video thanks! You mention that you go through switches. My bridge pickup suddenly went out the other day. I took the guard off and sprayed some Deoxit on the selector switch. Seemed to work cause I haven't had the problem since. What are the symptoms when your pickup selector goes bad? Does all PU's stop working or just one? Does it crackle or PPP when trying to select? Thank you!
Big Norm Had one where it got all scratchy, another just stopped working.
I am looking for the Strat that has 4 control knobs on the facia board. The lead guitarist of Jimmy Swaggarts music team has one. I take it the large one is the volume, and the three others , normal Strat size are tone controls. I am looking for the wiring diagram for that model. Can you help please ?
Hey Anthony, I've heard people say that the Pride and Joy intro is played on the middle position, but I honestly don't hear it. Or do they mean just the short intro before the shuffle/main rhythm? I always play that on the 4th position, and the rest of the song on neck.
L3ONARDO07 Sometimes I hear middle, sometimes I hear neck. Most times I like the sound of middle for the intro, then switching to neck for the main rhythm.
Love your videos!
How would you describe pos 2 with an hss? What would it be good for?
Cool demo! Does this applies to tele's?
musicman123 A two pickup / 3 position tele is similar - neck = fatter, bridge = thinner, middle = twangy.
Is there a video somewhere else of his setup this is the tone I wish I had out of my strat. I can get those crisp neck tones out of my setup but avoid the bridge because I can’t get that twang he was talking about
What amp and over drive did you use for that great tone in this vid?
To get a similar tone like this vid, use some fender (style) amp, some kind of tubescreamer or some other light overdrive and a strat and there you go
@@teunputker and also good right hand technique
@@Dobrovinskiy do you know what right hand technique that is
@@reuben433 of course I do. you can take lessons from me, I am teaching worldwide.
@@Dobrovinskiy im sorry but i am not interested in lessons, please could you just give me a quick answer?
Great stuff! Thanks
Thank you!
Awesome!
I found this usefull, as i really look to find my perfect tone. I tend to swich stuff mid-bend, just to make it cool, but also to add a little bit of sustain to my note. Here's my question: why are notes on the neck pick-up more beefy (in sustain) and the others are not?
Because the strings have more resonance near the neck, the neck's wood is a lot of tone and ring more loosely as opposed to the bridge, the strings are tighter there. Think of it when you play acoustic, it you pluck near the bridge you'll get a totally different sound, and a you'll have to strum with more force to get enough volume. With pickups it's the same idea, the placement affects the sound and is why bridge pickups are wound more then the bridge, to compensate the lack of volume.
Hello u think u could do a steve miller demo of mercury blues again love ur channel thanks.
I want to love a Strat, but I was raised with 80's hard rock, and Strats sound wimpy to me with their single coils, compared to Gibson's with Humbuckers. One single coil just seems anemic to me.
Good job demoing and describing though.
thats why there are superstrats, or if you wanna stay classic strat, an HSS strat, or hot rail pups
Anthony, are you using 500k or 250k pots with the underwound set?
are you picking with the pick upside down?
God, what a tone :drool:
very helpful thx
overdrive which you used in this video ?
What pickups? what strat? That´s an American Deluxe, right? please reveal the pickups model!
What pickup?
What pickups are those? How much in USD?
Thx v useful
My Carvin Ap 11 have a switch that lets me have !0 tones
so thats what that thing does
What String Gauge You Uses?
Juan Mendoza He uses 011. Currently D'addario. You can find all his equipment here: texasbluesalley.com/oldtonezone/gear-index
That Is Great
I'm a long time player but I just wanted to comment on how annoying I find it that the Neck Pickup on a Strat is called 5th position. To me it makes no sense because the 5th position is really the closest to you and by my reckoning should be 1st. Anyway...
wow
wow, your descriptions of each position makes me not want to play a strat. fortunately I love strats.
Did Fender copy Ibanez Jem guitars for 5 Pickup Positions?
Leo Fender came up with the idea to the best of my knowledge. Most guitar innovations were either created by Leo Fender or Les Paul. Pretty much every guitar since has been modeled after a Fender or Gibson guitar, Ibanez guitars included.
So, what pickups are in that guitar?
***** All listed here: texasbluesalley.com/woodshed/free/the-5-strat-pickup-positions
Extremely high pickups setup...
Ugh... does any video just give the basics? Like "Position 5 activates only X pickup(s). Position 4 activates only X pickup(s)." Etc. That's all I need to know. Not all this stuff about a pickup position sounding like a wet cat longing for a can of tuna on a humid July night. (Nice licks, though LOL)