I'm up for some learning > Change and old farts ways

[Bogwhoppit]

Les Paul

What pickup ( Neck or Bridge ) in general are you using for your solo's? ( that question in itself should tell you I'm an old fart from the old school stuck in my Jimmy Page ways ).

I used to use my Vol, Tone and pickup selector to get all my sounds from a single channel valve amp with the EQ set ( in stone ). I had no dirt pedal, just me my guitar and amp. I then progressed onto dirt pedals and then I got my modelling amp. Now I dance around on the footswitch throughout the gig like a demented leprecon. Today I just played at a local music festival and decided to play some solo's on my neck pickup through a basic overdriven Class A model.

Creamy , fat, soulful, melodic and bushy are the only adjectives I can use to describe my experience. I think a revisit back to basic's is what I need, but this time I should make more use of that neck pickup.

[Nas]

Originally Posted by Bogwhoppit

Les Paul

What pickup ( Neck or Bridge ) in general are you using for your solo's? ( that question in itself should tell you I'm an old fart from the old school stuck in my Jimmy Page ways ).

I used to use my Vol, Tone and pickup selector to get all my sounds from a single channel valve amp with the EQ set ( in stone ). I had no dirt pedal, just me my guitar and amp. I then progressed onto dirt pedals and then I got my modelling amp. Now I dance around on the footswitch throughout the gig like a demented leprecon. Today I just played at a local music festival and decided to play some solo's on my neck pickup through a basic overdriven Class A model.

Creamy , fat, soulful, melodic and bushy are the only adjectives I can use to describe my experience. I think a revisit back to basic's is what I need, but this time I should make more use of that neck pickup.

It's great just using the minimal stuff, I bet you had less to worry about. I use a guitar with just one pickup into an amp nothing more. I used to have a rack filled with loads of gear.

Now it's turn down with volume when comping and if I am feeling saucy, I may even touch the tone control...

[Prof Frink]

I'm a single channel, volume up/down for clean/dirty old fart myself and I tend to use the middle setting with the neck pickup rolled back to about 7/8 so you get a fatter sound than bridge pickup but still with a little claritly from the bridge and it still gives you option of using the full on neck pickup on its own ... somewhere else to go I guess, if you feel you need it

[guitargeek62]

Mostly the neck on my 245 (it counts!!!!), saying that though its very rare i use the bridge pickup alone as the twin pickup mix with varied vol settings is much more versatile in a one guitar band and sounds huge in comparison imo.