INCREDIBLE TONE - The Middle Pickup Secret - Kanji guitars
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- 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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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.
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?
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
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.
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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I'm convinced this guy could make any guitar with any pickup sound good
Thank you!
me after first hit: "wow that is a nice tone"
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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
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!
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.
Jazz, funk, blues, and wisdom masterclass in one video. Bravo, Maestro!
Thank you so much!
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!
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
The intro was so good how it kept going, couldn’t stop smiling
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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!!
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)-?
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
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.
What I love even more than your playing is your JOY while playing! Makes me smile everytime!
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I have always loved the middle pickup, you have this rich, balanced tone, with 'spank', interesting!
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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 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!
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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This is why I'm actually really loving the Cyclone's middle pickup. Lots of personality!
Awesome!!
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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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.
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!
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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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!
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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Came for the tone, stayed for the amazing playing
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Middle one is my favorite one. Always been and perhaps always will.
Yes! Thank you!
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!!
My mind has been expanded. Thank you, Tomo.(former neck and bridge only guy. )
Thank you!
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!
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!!
A friend of mine saw Trower in concert. Said the guitar switch was set for the middle position during the entire concert.
Awesome!!
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.
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!!
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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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.
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All I use is the middle pickup on my Strat. My Strat is very rare. It’s a special edition from the early 90s. It’s a 60s reissue made from solid quitted maple. I’m now getting afraid to bring it out because it’s mint condition. Only 250 made. So I’m planning on making a Strat with just one middle pickup that I’m not bothered by bringing out of the house. This video just confirms my choice. I’m going for it.
Fantastic! So awesome! Thanks for sharing!
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 😁
After your reply to my previous comment I searched your channel for "Kanji guitar". Now I need to know everything there is about single pickup guitars.
This pickguard assembly was a spacial made from Kanji Kawabata.
Look him up on Instagram.
@@TomoFujitaMusic I will. Many thanks.
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
the middle pickup. i think is underrated by many guitar players. when i play my strat i love the sound options the 3 single coild give me. the middle pickup i use when i strum open chords like on an acoustic guitar and in no other position it sound and feel "natural". when i play surf rock lead guitar, on a strat the mid PU sound best for my ears.
i think the most people use the mid PU in combination with neck or bridge PU for the "inbeetween" positions.
the mid PU alone as single coil seem to "overseen" a bit. so they oversee a bit the power of this PU. only the stratocaster and guitars with strat-inspired 3 PU setup got the sound option, so a sound u can not create with the most gibson style guitars or a tele or jazzmaster.
there is a reason why the famous nashville tele got a middle PU ;)
this video i like a lot. and i am more use my volumen and tone potis now, most time i used it at 10. sure i used my vol poti but now i try to use it more often and not got the gain in mind, now i try to focus more on sound. when i roll back the volumen the tone change and this is something very special/magical for me, i can not understand people make the treble bleed mod in their stratocasters. ^^
great video tomo!
Thank you for sharing! Very special tone! Thank you so much!
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!
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!!
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.
at the beginning I thought the playing was not so good but as it went on I realized it is pretty tasty
Thank you!
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~
Dang, the way you tuck that pinky behind the fingerboard, such smooth technique!
Merry Christmas, Tomo!
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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!
Watching this video not only help me appreciate the middle pick up but with all the ads made me want to get the UA-cam paid subscription!
Thank you!
I love that 50s tone too Tomo. I do like a bit of reverb too, especially if my pickups are not too good.
Awesome!
On my RG550, the 3th and 4th pickup position makes my guitar sound like a strats neck/bridge, that sweet sweet tone. I love it. And that is because of the middle position pickup! so i get both super shred tones and strat clean tones. Can use that guitar for anything
Thanks for sharing! Awesome!
@@TomoFujitaMusic my pleasure! its a pro track, with super distortion in the bridge, and liquid fire john petrucci pickup in the neck. Its a weird combo, cause i took out the original ones that came with the guitar. But i can highly recommend that pro track for the middle position
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!
First, amazing! You have such an amazing touch on the guitar. Second, justification to the wife/etc. "I need five Musicmaster bass amps because my job is playing guitar".
Back when they were in production, my friend had a Musicmaster Bass amp for his Ric 4001. Never thought to use it as a guitar amp!
Thank you! Yes! Communication is important. Was 5.
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.
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!
Is it still a middle pickup if there are no other pickups for it to be in the middle of?
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!
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Less interference in the tone pickup's magnetic field + less wiring = more tone and richer dynamics!!
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.
I've made a strat with the three singles to a three pickup (on) configuration. The way i did this was to wire the neck and bridge in a Telecaster configuration. The middle goes to tone and from tone direct to the jack socket, the mid pickup is then permanent on, So in pos 1. it is bridge, mid pos 2. Three pickups on, pos 3 mid neck. All three pups goes to master volume, and remember only mid goes to tone as the "spice pup" I do mostly use pos 2. with all three pickups on, and i don't bother with the other positions, I can use my regular strats for that. Due to the higher resistance pos 1-3 is mostly for the lead parts. With your five band eq. (also called the right hand) you have a wide range of diversity from three pickups. The resistance is really high with three pups on. so do not expect a lot of overdrive or distortion, Just expect a good tone.
Awesome!!
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
After all of these years! There are still things you can find in the strats that blows your mind!
Yes! Thank you!
If I could only have one pickup on my Strat, it wouldn't be the middle. Neck all the way.
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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Oh my, Tomo just did a friendly challenge to Davie504 hahaha that's a fun little segment
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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
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Yep - that middle setting was the one used for most of the recording Steve Cropper played on - so if he does it - well.......?
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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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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Good job! You are going right direction!! Please enjoy!!
HE CHALLANGED DAVIE504...the game is on..
If Davie accepts, Tomo will have 500k subscribers by the end of the week. 200 iq move.
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I wanted to order something like that from Fender, Charvel or Schechter. Nice to see I’m not the only one with that idea.
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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 have never understood the hate for middle pickups, I adore the middle position of a strat. I prefer lipstick tube in the middle though. It takes the linear string balance to another level.
Less interference in the tone pickup's magnetic field + less wiring = more tone and richer dynamics!!
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.
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!!
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!
Thank you Mr. Tomo.
I could not deicide which pickup should I use when I decided to remove the pickup selector and use only one pickup.
Now I use middle pickup only and I is great.
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I am trying to finish a project i started some time ago. It is a tele style body with a middle humbucker. I put instead of a telecaster style bridge a dynamic vibrato like the mustang guitars. I kept a tele control plate and wired it with the eldred esquire diagram. This way i can use volume with or without tone or a capacitor wired between the switch and volume to a bass type tone.
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If you look at the placement of the middle pickup/how far from the bridge saddles it is and then compare that measurement to different fret spacing on the neck it seems even more like a key place to get your sound.
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sounds so great, Tomo! Love the @davie504 mention 20 minutes in too, haha!
Glad you liked it!
The perfect gag gift for the strat player at Christmas time🎄
Or I could use it strictly for playing That'll Be The Day by Buddy Holly
I like middle pickup only guitars with both bass and treble cut controls
I've been using the middle pickup in a strat for a very long time because for it has the most balanced tone out of the three. I'm not even aware of pickup configurations back then. I don't do lead, I just strum hard. XD
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I have one of my strats in SHS configuration, with Seymour Duncan pickups: Duckbucker-Little 59-Duckbucker, master volume & master tone and a split switch for the Little 59.
Thanks for sharing. Awesome!
I added a strat middle pickup to my tele. The middle pickup has its own volume, so when middle volume is off its just a normal 3 way switch tele, then a can bleed in the middle pickup. many tones available. I use a .0022 tone cap (yes .0022 not .022), that way my tone is very usable from 10-0, no load tone pot. Lindy Fralin vintage tele pickups and Wolfetone cub middle strat pickup. I like to be able to do almost everything on 1 or 2 guitars. I mostly play funk and soul music, a little reggae and blues too. Fender twin is my favorite amp. I'm using Jensen blackbird 100 watt alnico speaker. The Red Snapper is my favorite drive pedal. I use a stratoblaster boost pedal a lot too
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I love the middle pickup. Just put a DiMarzio VV Blues in the middle of one of my Strats, and it's all the best parts of the bridge and middle. Last year, I saw Chris Duarte do a clinic, and he mentioned that the middle is his main position, occasionally switching to the neck or bridge for more bass or bite, and it got me totally rethinking how I approach a Strat.
Whenever I see people talk about using a dummy pickup in the middle or lowering it so they don't hit it with the pick, I just shake my head.
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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
The way I saw it, with vintage strats that only had the 3 way, the middle position was the sweet spot while the bridge or neck took away or added bass.
Great point! Morden 5 ways... made us forget about the middle?
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Merry Christmas to you and your family, Tomo!
Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays!
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Doug Martsch from the band Built to Spill has played for most of the past 30 years on the middle pickup of his Strat. His sounds are big, with a lot of variety. He disconnected the other pickups and the tone knob from from his main guitar.
Thanks for sharing! Great idea!
Oh yup. Middle pickup is the normal pickup. Neck is the Jazz, and bridge is the trick pickup, or "take off" pickup. I'd love to know what cap you prefer, on that middle pickup
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This makes me wonder what would be possible with a guitar that only had one pickup, but it was movable to any position between the bridge and neck
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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.
I have a guitar that has the body of a Gibson SG but Fender Stratocaster neck it’s a guitar I got during around 1992 the guitar was from the 1960s so it kinda worked with a grunge or retro sound it only had a middle body pickup on it and it was a lipstick style pickup you see on telecaster or Danelectro ! I never seen a guitar like it before name of the guitar on the headstock is King or something like that , I have the guitar in storage so I haven’t seen it in years !
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Hey, I see this is a two year old post.
I ran in to your channel, looking at different takes on pick up hight.
You are a lot of fun, Thank You.
As it happens, I am a keep it simple Tele guy.
Leo did a thing, inadvertent or not, he parked neck pick ups under a harmonic node.
By now you must have run in to this.
Strike a 5th frett harmonic and change pick ups. Bang the neck is dead.
Some G&Ls have the neck nudged back to the bridge. This helps, but the amplitude of the string is still small over the pick up poles.
On a tele this is frustrating.
Enter the Strat middle!
My Strats are wired, with the middle straight out, except for volume.
I use the mid more and more.
One thing you gain with just the one pick up is less over all gause.
So, :. less string damping, and better harmonic sympathy in general.
Recently a revelation set my on my ear.
Quicky adding a rash of electric guitars, I made note that some had better 3rd frett harmonic responce.
Looking for a least common denomenator, it turned out to be pick up hight.
Wow, I thought things where in order.
Now, one by one, there is a bent to lower pick ups, including #1's
You put a lot in this vid.
I have no effects. But love the half a tube of extra gain in Fender Reverb amps.
BTW your PRO R is a treasure.
Another admission, of mine, is a near addiction to reverb. Good thing I have a Champ to keep me honest!
I hope the last two years have been kind.
Be well. Chris
Oh, I should mention, all my electrics have treb passes. Simply can't live with out them. Lately a .002 uf.
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Thank you for sharing!
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!
So nice to hear that! 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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