What's your favorite pick-up configuration???

[guitarshredder]

Hello guys, what is your favorite pick-up configuration [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/fart.gif[/img]??? My personal favorite pick-up configuration is the H/S/H, because it's the most versatile IMO [img]/images/graemlins/headbang.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]. If you decide to vote, please tell WHY the choice you picked is your favorite configuration [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]. Also, why did Jackson's stop making H/S/H guitars??? [img]/images/graemlins/brow.gif[/img]

[Newc]

Re: What\'s your favorite pick-up configuration???

I agree - H-S-H and H-H-H are the most versatile. Some middle singles get in the way if the poles are too tall or the pickups are positioned poorly.

As for why Jackson stopped doing H-S-H, I don't know. They probably based it on the sales of a stripped-down import with h-s-h vs optioned-out USAs, and arrived at the conclusion that no one wants a USA neckthrough with h-s-h [img]/images/graemlins/brow.gif[/img]

Newc

[paddok]

Re: What\'s your favorite pick-up configuration???

Screw versatility. H and H/S are my personal fav's.

[paddok]

Re: What\'s your favorite pick-up configuration???

On a personal aside, something really irks me about having a middle pickup. It is just displeasing.

[TDurden]

Re: What\'s your favorite pick-up configuration???

H/H. Everything I need there. Never got much use for the single coil in the middle.

[White]

Re: What\'s your favorite pick-up configuration???

Anything with a humbucker in the bridge. Variety is good.

[jackson1]

Re: What\'s your favorite pick-up configuration???

H/S because it is the beautifullest [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[rudygeorge]

Re: What\'s your favorite pick-up configuration???

I chose H/S/S because I like a humbucker in the bridge to give a nice fat, heavy sound and I like hot single coils in the neck and middle to do fast solos and to play clean.

Rudy D.

[ChickenScratch]

Re: What\'s your favorite pick-up configuration???

I love HH, in fact I've got one guitar that is HSH and the S is not even connected anymore. Other than HH though my favorite guitar is my carvin with a single bridge H.

I know that even though Steve Morse's guitar plays like a dream if I get it I would never take full advantage of it tonally.

[VulfgangPfuck]

Re: What\'s your favorite pick-up configuration???

H/S ....because I love the tone of a single coil out of phase with a bridge humbucker in clean mode.

[Robotechnology]

Re: What\'s your favorite pick-up configuration???

I dislike single coil type pup's in the neck position. My fave single coil sound is an in phase single coil in the middle--so HSH for me.

[Crusher]

Re: What\'s your favorite pick-up configuration???

I like the H/H config., in my LP, the bridge humbucker gives me a nice chunky, meaty sound, the neck humbucker is great for thick solos and leads

[DJROBA]

Re: What\'s your favorite pick-up configuration???

H/S because the middle pick up gets in the way. I really like the sound of the single coils in the neck position. It's so warm and milky. Plus, I never use the middle pickup anyways.

[1trussell]

Re: What\'s your favorite pick-up configuration???

I voted H/H although I would be perfectly happy with H/S as well. The middle single coil tends to get in the way and I just don't use it that much anyway. Nothing sounds better for leads than a nice smooth humbucker in the neck. With H/H or H/S I can use humbuckers in the neck and split them to get single coil sounds.

[Hamner1]

Re: What\'s your favorite pick-up configuration???

I voted H/H, because that is what 90% of all of my guitars have been. And you can get a single coil sound out of the neck pickup if you split the neck humbucker. I also have liked H & H/S configurations as well, but I could only vote for one.