Removed my SG's neck pickup

Gahr said:
Hey! Suddenly I’m a jazz cat.:D
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No. I don't understand people that don't use the neck pickup. A lot of the best tones in an electric guitar are gonna come out of the neck pickup.

This guy agrees

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The neck pickup has its place. More genres have a place for using the neck pickup than not. Indeed the only genre I can think of where the neck pickup is a complete abomination and should never be used is punk and all of its various 'core' subgenres. People who stand there and pound out punk riffs on the woofy old neck pickup in the lower register need hitting over the head with a large object and being told to go get their ears checked.

I wouldn't hold punk up as the gold standard of musicality though
 
67plexi said:
I think their is something to the magnet pull theory.

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I'm definitely a believer now. Eddie's frankenstrat is another good example, the guy obviously knew a thing or two about good tone. Having said that, I do use the neck pickup on all my other guitars. Lead lines on a neck humbucker sound very nice & with a strat (sss & delta tone system) I use all positions. The SG is the only one I only use the bridge only on. Cheers
 
Not long ago, i had an original 1959 Strat that was brought to me for setup after years of storage and neglect.

I could not set the intonation. The strobe just went crazy no matter what I did. I ended up dropping the neck pickup nearly flush with the pickguard to circumvent the magnetic pull.
 
Robert Herndon said:
Not long ago, i had an original 1959 Strat that was brought to me for setup after years of storage and neglect.

I could not set the intonation. The strobe just went crazy no matter what I did. I ended up dropping the neck pickup nearly flush with the pickguard to circumvent the magnetic pull.
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A good reason to setup the height of a Strat's neck pup, first. Then balance the other two pups against the neck pup.
 
Robert Herndon said:
That's a blade humbucker
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SD Hot Rails. I had a '66 Strat that I dropped the Hot Rails neck and bridge into, with a Quarter Pound in the middle. Fantastic tone - still sounded like a Strat, but with the power of a humbucker and none of the awful hum. I really like these Strat-sized pickups from Seymour Duncan. Not as much of a fan of their full-sized humbuckers but I would use these again if I ever bought another Strat and wanted more grunt out of it.
 
gball said:
SD Hot Rails. I had a '66 Strat that I dropped the Hot Rails neck and bridge into, with a Quarter Pound in the middle. Fantastic tone - still sounded like a Strat, but with the power of a humbucker and none of the awful hum. I really like these Strat-sized pickups from Seymour Duncan. Not as much of a fan of their full-sized humbuckers but I would use these again if I ever bought another Strat and wanted more grunt out of it.
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Quarter Pounder! I bought one used in 1980 or 81 for my Silvertone. Didn't even have a cover on it!

I thought I was someone....LOL

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gball said:
SD Hot Rails. I had a '66 Strat that I dropped the Hot Rails neck and bridge into, with a Quarter Pound in the middle. Fantastic tone - still sounded like a Strat, but with the power of a humbucker and none of the awful hum. I really like these Strat-sized pickups from Seymour Duncan. Not as much of a fan of their full-sized humbuckers but I would use these again if I ever bought another Strat and wanted more grunt out of it.
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Exactly why I went with the DiMarzio Virtual Vintage Solo DP404!
 
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