what the use of the two guitar pick?

hadi

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Hi guys may i know, guitar have two guitars picks right? what does the front and the back pick up does? thanks...
 
U are refering to pickups right? The front or the bridge pickup will produce a more trebly sound, whereas the back pickup or neck pickup produce a more warm and rounded sound.
 
for variation in tone. but like early skid row, they only have the bridge pickup, so they more or less sounds rather similar.
 
there is no specific pickup for rythm or solo, just play around with the pickups and follow your ears. If you like the sound, stick with it :)

anyway, for a 2 humbucker guitar, 3 way switch

bridge/switch at the back - more of a sharp sound, more treble

middle/switch at the midde - hm i would say this would be the combination of both the pickup, but each pickup kinda halved, if you get what i mean

neck/switch at the front - more bassier, less treble
 
Yeap, there's no rule as for which pup for solo/rhythm. In general, expect the bridge pup to sound tighter, hence more preferrable for rhythm, and the neck to sound fatter, hence ppl like it for lead. Both are interchangable.
 
Front back, meaning Neck and Bridge pickups. The Bridge side, is the one closer to your picking hand. The neck pickup is the one on the fretboard side. Both pickups produce different tones.



Simply put, if a riff sounds nice on Bridge pickup, use bridge position. If your licks sounds better in the neck position, use the neck position. The pickup selector switch (yeah that flicky thingy) selects the pickup positions.
'Up' is usually the neck pickup, 'down' position selects the bridge.


Strings vibrate differently in both the neck and bridge positions, therefore the 2 pickups help the player articulate these different tones in his playing. In the neck position, the strings vibrate wider than that in the bridge, therefore a rounder, looser tone is produced. In the bridge, there is less vibrations, therefore it has a brighter, tighter sound.


That said, I leave it to you to play with the positions. Explore it yourself, you'll understand better.
 
some1 at yamaha told me the mid in a 2 pickup guitar is 4 finger-picking(u kno,like classical stuff)

wat about pickup configuration on strats?wat's the mid pickup on strats used 4?
 
i guess the mid pup is used for chord strumming and maybe blues? cause the bridge is too twangy and the neck is too fat.
 
there isnt, as said above, a fixed rule to what each pickup is for. that said, i personally use the middle pickup when on a clean channel together with either the neck or bridge pickup, to make a "smoother" acoustic-like sound. that may be just me, and everyone usually does find a use for the middle pickup that is to their liking.
 
i guess the explanation above are correct.

bridge - brighter sounding, tighter, tone cuts thru, easier to get pinch harmonics
neck - warmer, looser, fatter, more vocal like
middle (both pick-ups together) - usually its an in-between sound of the above (ok, that's when the pick-ups are both in humbucker mode, in parallel)
there's an exception for middle too: some guitars have the pick-up's split in single-coil mode in that position. (e.g the ibanez SZ and another older RG with a quilted maple top/mahagony back with 3position switch) it will sounds like a fender strat's in-between out-of-phase tone. try the SZ next time u r in swee lee, and u'll see what i mean.

anw, there is no rules as to which position is best for solos or rythmn. u have to try it out urself. case in point: have u seen Yngwie perform live? u can see during his solos he keep switching from neck to bridge, back-and-forth. try to take note of his guitar tone, u can hear the change in tone from bright and cutting, to warm and fat, and back-and-forth.
 
hadi said:
Hi guys may i know, guitar have two guitars picks right? what does the front and the back pick up does? thanks...

errrmmm, so that we can play around with more pickups and feed our GAS :twisted:
 
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