Show us your single pickup monsters!

My only "single" at the moment is my '13 60's tribute SG IMG_20181202_154443.jpg
I know that it doesn't "look" like a single pickup guitar, but the neck pickup is a dummy, just a baseplate & cover with no magnet or coils inside it. The bridge pickup is a slightly overwound (8.8k) Vineham T top. Cheers
 
Hackmaster said:
Thanks Ray, It is a museum piece now.
I sold it to Adrian a while ago, but had always regretted doing so.
I had weeks of my soul into rebuilding that thing.

So I got it back in one of many thousands of swap deals betwixt us.
A Mesa may have been involved. :oops:

I pondered hard over doing a triple dogear Switchmaster kind of job on it, but sanity and reason guided me.
It really is a sweet guitar now.
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Let me know if you want to make the same mistake twice!
 
syscokid said:
This is an unusual setup. There has to be an interesting story to this guitar... :wink::wink:
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My SG is the only guitar I have that I never use the neck pickup, or effects. It's always straight into the bright channel Hi input, bridge pickup. Having read of people removing the neck pickup for improved tone (like Malcolm Young) I thought I'd try it. After going back & forth between having a pickup in there or not, bandmates & other guitarists I jam with all agreed that there's a slight difference for the better without it. The "dummy" pickup came from a buddy's guitar that I did an electronics repair on. It had gone open circuit so I gutted it & stuck it in the SG. Cheers
 
ivan H said:
My only "single" at the moment is my '13 60's tribute SG View attachment 29410
I know that it doesn't "look" like a single pickup guitar, but the neck pickup is a dummy, just a baseplate & cover with no magnet or coils inside it. The bridge pickup is a slightly overwound (8.8k) Vineham T top. Cheers
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Diabolical!!
 
BlackSG91 said:
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Those are pretty black... I don't know if they could get any blacker...

I recently sold my P Bass, so this one prolly doesn't count
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but it sure stands out as ONE PICKUP GOODNESS and simplicity. One pickup, one volume control, one tone
control, and a modeling amp full of different profiles... this bass can sound like almost anything. Or keep it
simple using the "super flat" model on the amp. I used to think of the Precision Bass as a kind of one-trick pony,
--this because I lucked into a good deal on a Jazz Bass for my first bass. The J Bass was my only bass for
literally decades. My thinking was that since it was the best, anything else was something less. And the Fender
J Bass did everything I needed it to do.

But after getting (and rebuilding) the black beauty above, I had to re think all of that.
Re-thinking your prejudices is always a good process, especially when it's voluntary.
I embraced the single pickup sound of the P Bass, and decided that it really filled the role
of "world's best bass." It's certainly the world's best selling bass. And it's got the best
name of any instrument of the 20th century. Leo thought of it himself. *grins

I have one other instrument with a single p'up... My Gibson J-45 AG.
It's got an L.R. Baggs "Element" pickup under the bridge saddle, and this actually sounds
great. I was not a fan of Piezo pickups in acoustic guitars after my early experiments with
them, but the technology has certainly come a long way.
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Being a tone hound, I tend to run my single pickup acoustic through a
pedal board to modify and tweak the tone, because we don't always get
good sound where we play, and I'm more confident giving the sound man
a signal I've seen to myself. But I don't have to tweak this Gibson very much.
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Most other posts have concerned electric guitars, so I thought I'd stir this
into the cauldron. And here's one more... not mine, but I got to host this instrument
while my podners were on the road without me. An audience member gifted one of
my band mates with this Carvin CC275:
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She asked me to take it home and keep it for her until they got back, because they were going all the way North into
Northern Wisconsin, and then touring back to New England before coming home to Michigan. Quite a ways to go in
a loaded minivan. So I got to play this instrument and came to really like the tone and feel.

It's got a single pickup, an L.R. Baggs also, and I posted a thread on this instrument, trying to pick the brains
of this forum, which is always fun. Here's the link to my thread:

Carvin CC 275

Tonight at a gig, a long time fan gifted one of my band mates with a Carvin CC275 guitar. I'd never heard of this model, and had to look it up when I got home. I can't travel with my partners any more, because I'm taking care of my lady love through a serious illness, but I played with them...
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