There's a reason why Eddie Van Halen was so obsessed with getting a humbucker on a strat - it's stronger than the single coil, but sounds more mellow than on a Gibson. It's the eternal Hard Rock sound, and I truly prefer it over the SSS configuration. On another note, the middle pickup seems to me it's the closest to a regular acoustic guitar, but on a solid body. Final note: you sounded like Jerry Cantrell with the wah :)
@ABN_Sound3 жыл бұрын
is he playing a song at 8 min, and if so, what song
@TaartjeMetSlagroom3 жыл бұрын
@@ABN_Sound he is playing a song called ‘Slow dancing in a burning room’ by John Mayer
@vincentjackson34723 жыл бұрын
Haha awesome. Stoked I wasn't the only one thinking he sounded Cantrell-esq with the wah going. Great vid big T. Also. You're a shit hot guitarist.
@wilssantos23 жыл бұрын
Wow, thanks for pinning my comment! Big honor! :)
@ABN_Sound3 жыл бұрын
@@TaartjeMetSlagroom thanks, your name seems afrikaans, dankie meneer 😂😂😂
@TomoFujitaMusic3 жыл бұрын
The Middle Pickup is for me!!
@ZaneDalton3 жыл бұрын
Love your newer vids!
@hussledupgamejam3 жыл бұрын
It's the guy with a strat that only has a middle pickup!!
@down8133 жыл бұрын
For me, it's either the bridge or the neck pickup.
@Herfinnur3 жыл бұрын
Me too!
@VodkaSelekta3 жыл бұрын
@@hussledupgamejam My strat actually has three middle pickups on it
@Jona_The_Than_D3 жыл бұрын
They sound great, would love to buy one **sees price tag** This squier is more my style
@russellhayden823 жыл бұрын
Squiers are great guitars actually.
@eoin4743 жыл бұрын
@@russellhayden82 yes of course they are ! 😁
@Xuxixnywhwj17253 жыл бұрын
@@russellhayden82 just need some adjustments...then boom you are ready
@ccaa76743 жыл бұрын
I love my squiers
@bluepedalsrock92713 жыл бұрын
You know it’s going to be 💰 when they don’t list the price on the website.
@Pericles7773 жыл бұрын
The middle is the “quack”, the neck is the “hoot”, the bridge is the “tang”, the 2nd and forth are just blending the duck with either the orange drink or the owl
@CoryA25033 жыл бұрын
I love how this makes perfect sense to me, yet if you said this to anyone other than a guitarist, you'd sound out of your mind
@mediocreguitarist82763 жыл бұрын
Well send me to space because I prefer the tang
@bluesdealer3 жыл бұрын
I always considered the out of phase positions to be “quack” lol
@creamydistortion3 жыл бұрын
Precisely!
@j_freed3 жыл бұрын
It’s the Space Age Drink in the First Pozzish…. 🍊
@virgomunoz3 жыл бұрын
The middle pickup is honestly my favorite part of a strat. Has the dirtiness of the neck position and the gnarlyness of the bridge. Absolutely beautiful.
@scotthowes18693 жыл бұрын
Can't beat the middle pickup for funky rhythm. I've used 2 and 4, but 3 is by far the best for that. It has just enough treble to cut through and not get lost and it pulls back the bass from the neck pickup so you don't lose it in the woof.
@OslerWannabe2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, but the morning after playing you got fur on your tongue, feel like crap and call in sick.
@joshkw23283 жыл бұрын
tyler is living his childhood through the pickups, him stealing candy bars and someone putting his bike in a crash compactor.
@guitawrizt3 жыл бұрын
PTSD for sure with this guy.
@trebmaster3 жыл бұрын
Sounds like he was the guy putting a kid's bike in the trash compactor.
@Tone2town3 жыл бұрын
Tyler never cease to amaze me. Yes, those pickups sound sick!
@bednar233 жыл бұрын
That must be the first relic guitar I've ever liked. That's supremely pretty.
@lukas66103 жыл бұрын
Yeah man it looks so good its probably extremely expensive since they dont want to show the price on the website
@IfUfindthisURlost2 жыл бұрын
Agreed. Never seen much point in 'artificial' aging and adding dings etc. Fine if it is through natural usage and has 'meaning' to the player, but otherwise it's like buying an expensive pair of ripped jeans????. However, that worn look with the blue and gold is the nicest I've seen.
@claesvanoldenphatt99722 жыл бұрын
@@IfUfindthisURlost yeah the color contrast caught my eye. Most ‘relic’ guitars just look fake old to me, like those jeans, bogus or ersatz. This axe is has such artistic material application, with the brass and torrified maple. Looks expensive.
@theoo56573 жыл бұрын
damn, tyler has been proving himself of even a better guitar player than he already was
@mexstrat963 жыл бұрын
My first thought too!
@RJRonquillo3 жыл бұрын
Feck those are great sounding pickups! (and guitar)
@onevoiceinc3 жыл бұрын
You have chops, too, by the way.
@NoJobRob3 жыл бұрын
And guitarist 👌
@CarloCalcaterra923 жыл бұрын
*peckups
@nazmoking31713 жыл бұрын
And RJ should know! By the way RJ, your Guild Starfire video convinced me to get that guitar with the 3 P90’s and 6-way selector and I love it!
@TheOdieD33 жыл бұрын
HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa
@krustdogg1313 жыл бұрын
I honestly believe a strat with the hss combination is the most versatile of the of the guitars! You can just do everything from blues to jazz to metal to country
@wilhelmtheconquerer62143 жыл бұрын
Agreed! Throw in a double locking tremolo system with piezo saddles as well and there's nothing you can't do on it
@PixelFastFood3 жыл бұрын
No question about it. altho I've seen someone who replaced the middle single coil with a p90 and that was almost as versitile and so sick for more rockish stuff
@koehnmailand68213 жыл бұрын
My first guitar was a fender HSS strat and I love how versatile it is
@j_freed3 жыл бұрын
Ya we know this from tne 80s … I was there.
@debuhokontra20063 жыл бұрын
there is yamaha that can do a lot of tone from humbucker to single coil , there is demo in NAMM
@mattdyck99313 жыл бұрын
Used to be neck pickup only for me. Lately it's been fairly even between all of them. I think part of it comes down to learning to use dynamics and subtlety better. As we become better players, we learn to use other sounds in ways that are pleasing to our ears.
@xamislimelight89652 жыл бұрын
Same. Used to be bridge only, you know typical speed metal guy. Now if a guitar doesn't have options, i don't entertain it. Plug-n-plays (as i call them) have some benefits and such. But as a bedroom player, the more things my guitar does now, the better lol
@id3m5892 жыл бұрын
The "boring" middle pickup was intended to be the "normal sound" in 50's music, as far as Leo and George intended. The bridge even had no tone knob. It was so loud and fuzzy and popular - because it was loud, that amp designers started to make amps sound darker to rectify that. Microphones were also pretty bad at picking high frequency content, and tape and analog recording path didn't exactly contribute. It's why so many vintage amps sound so bright. That's how we got to treble boosters in late 70's for humbucker equipped guitars - the recording and PA technology just got better, and guitar players started to prefer darker amps and guitars.
@sirspongadoodle8 ай бұрын
vintage amps dont really sound like anything, tube amps are just presets on a theme... speaker and cabinets do 100% but not tube amps.
@Swithyyyy3 жыл бұрын
I used to be a punk rock kid who only used a Strat with a hot rails bridge pickup with volume on 10 but recently upgraded the middle and neck pickup and added a coil tap to the bridge...my options are endless 🤘
@mirata77483 жыл бұрын
bro ngl having triple humbuckers guitars plus coil tap is basically tone heaven lol
@unacuentadeyoutube133 жыл бұрын
@@mirata7748 they are not hambuckers and they are not coil splits (I think that's what you inderstood by coil tap)
@woooyeahfunkytime40883 жыл бұрын
i feel that, all my guitars just had a bridge pickup for so long but i recently re-wired the neck pickup in and i was missing out lol
@zakkmylde17123 жыл бұрын
I play metal and grew up playing metal, so humbuckers preferably actives or really really hot passives have always been my thing. However the neck sound on a strat and the bridge and neck sounds of a tele are sex for the ears and I have one of each on my stand for when the blues feels right.
@bearhogg3 жыл бұрын
@@mirata7748 bruh i knew you would be here
@kamealex3 жыл бұрын
Curiously enough, I find the middle pickup pretty userful when using a loop pedal. It's a nice background sound if you are just relying on layers and layers of guitar sound. Nothing too bulky or screamy.
@emilkharisov70313 жыл бұрын
I've played in a wedding 6 piece band, so there was not a lot of room to experiment but (for me and in this context) neck is usual position for rhythm parts and little solos, middle is for slow jazzy songs and bridge is for more "aggressive" rock songs. In-between positions are great for layering yourself behind band-mate with sick solo. Also, for my specific context, I wasn't using volume knob and had to do all dynamics with hands. It was interesting but being able to crank amp volume and fully control performance with volume knob or pedal is liberating
@Zwampert3 жыл бұрын
I found myself paying more attention to the split positions after getting into popular math rock bands like polyphia or chon, and I’m sure many can relate. Bought a charvel hss guitar after watching Rick Graham as well, and since then it’s been my favorite guitar tone-wise.
@werthedead2 жыл бұрын
Polyphia is not math rock
@alonewanderer4697 Жыл бұрын
@@werthedead math rock but the challenge was shifted from weird time signatures to uncommon playing positions and arrangements
@MusicisWin3 жыл бұрын
What's your favorite position of an S-type guitar? wHeN iT's iN mY hAnDs
@4wardfr3ak233 жыл бұрын
Probably neck/ neck and bridge, something early Dire Straits inspired
@bronsonjohnson90193 жыл бұрын
I’m down for any position with that Paoletti. Lol
@GK-yf8mg3 жыл бұрын
That's what she said
@colescroggins28963 жыл бұрын
Not sure why but I love the sound from my bridge pickup. I’ve got a humbucker instead of a single coil. Not sure what it is but the bridge pickup just really speaks to me when I’m playing.
@Lowkeyhiman3 жыл бұрын
I haven't still played an electric guitar :'(
@andrewkoastephens2103 жыл бұрын
That’s super funny! I just assumed everyone agreed that the single coil bridge pickup was *THE STRAT SOUND* Replacing that with a humbucker seems an awful shame. For me that’d be like removing the best tonal crayon from the Strat crayon box. The humbucker is too much like the middle pickup I just never have occasion for that voice. It lacks the spine tingling, icy nails of death a single bridge pu has. I guess it all depends on context and which heroes you have. I’m not a electric blues guy. I like it fine and respect it, but have zero interest in playing it. Surf, Spaghetti Western, 60s instrumental is way more my bag.
@lukaskuipers77912 жыл бұрын
The strat bridge pickup sound is kinda overhadowed by the telecaster imo
@thezeek27452 жыл бұрын
So wrong.
@pharmerdavid14322 жыл бұрын
@@lukaskuipers7791 Totally different, except in my Robert Cray inca silver strat with flat-pole bridge pickup (middle and neck are staggered), which sound like no other strat bridge pickup I've ever heard, but not a telecaster sound either, yet better than the usual strat bridge pickup sound - fatter, warmer, more musical...the entire Cray pickup set in the Mexican version may be the best sounding strat pickups I ever did hear - they are really good, and I'm not the only one singing their praises!
@Bikewithlove2 жыл бұрын
You’re 100% right. The whole point of Rivers Cuomo’s HH strat, for example, is an expression of his love of the Cali surf-rock look, but with his 80s metal influence by using DiMarzio and Seymour Duncan humbuckers - the point being that it’s the WRONG thing to do to a strat (lol!) I’m not too into the surf/spaghetti sound for my own writing, though it’s a great sound for music and Dave Gilmour and U2’s Edge are but two my favorite guitarists. I just bought a strat kit & a Seymour Duncan humbucker for the bridge, and to be honest it was a very difficult decision because I can definitely feel the absence of the strat bridge pickup in my life. My Fender player Telecaster does it all all for me, and I’m exceted to finally accommodate the Weezer/Trevor Rabin/Eddie Van Halen within, but one day when I have some money to burn the first thing on my list is a straight-up American Fender Strat.
@stinkypinkeee50852 жыл бұрын
I have a SD Hotrail on my bridge...I can't imagine anything else on my Strat...
@ribhubhattacharya783 жыл бұрын
Nobody looks at Tyler's editing skills or camera angles , I appreciate those
@burnedmyfoot3 жыл бұрын
I like to think of pickups as different vowel sounds. Neck is "O", middle is "A" and bridge is "E". Am I wrong?
@mccarney42073 жыл бұрын
That’s… actually accurate as hell lol
@ThomasHendrickson3 жыл бұрын
Bridge is more “ang” middle is more “eh” to my ears
@TheReaper101233 жыл бұрын
I actually think of it kind of like how voice teachers explain voice projection. Head Mixed and Chest. The bridge is your head: nasal and sharp The neck is the chest voice: full and loud, but maybe lacking nuance or flexibility The middle and the other positions are just a blend of those on a gradient, if that makes sense. That’s how I visualize it anyways
@patrickfoster45863 жыл бұрын
Interesting...and I think you may be right. I spend probably 85% of my time on the neck pickup- OOOh nOOOO!!
@j_freed3 жыл бұрын
I will buy the vowels. You’re a very cunning linguist!
@Buffrt662 жыл бұрын
I'm not into "Relic" guitars, but the finish on that one is totally awesome. Loved the tones you were getting.
@wornstrat55173 жыл бұрын
Paoletti guitars never cease to amaze 🤤
@triledink3 жыл бұрын
I use the middle pickup for really 80s sounding chorus + reverb/delay clean sections.
@tonycullotta85283 жыл бұрын
thats what i use the middle picup for nile rogers sound also
@jacobfurst42663 жыл бұрын
Man lately I’ve been in a rut playing trying to learn solos but more precisely instead of kinda noodling through them, and watching you play this video just really made me realize how polished you are in technique and also how experienced at sorta improvising things. Very awesome.
@stevehughes2753 жыл бұрын
The best sounding strat is Blackmores tone and technique
@clust113 жыл бұрын
The best for you
@krisersn30923 жыл бұрын
The best style is Lil Wayne's tone and technique
@ItsRyan2653 жыл бұрын
@@krisersn3092 prodigious
@unacuentadeyoutube133 жыл бұрын
Malmsteem and Hendrix have a good tone too. Hendrix had a particular bridge pickup sound, since it was upside down and the magnets on the low E are closer to the bridge
@kospandx3 жыл бұрын
Blackmore and Malmsteen really knew how to use the middle pickup, alright.
@lglg64 Жыл бұрын
I know this comment won't reach a lot of people, but for the ones who read it I want to let you know: where you place your picking hand adds way more than you'd expect.
@jcbaber75212 жыл бұрын
That "U2" piece was so freakin good. I wish you would do a video just on that. Like a more detailed breakdown on that technique, setup, everything really. I just want to loop that part & keep it playing.
@franciscolima3312 жыл бұрын
Check rick beato's videos on u2, he breaks down the edge's playing
@HoosierDaddy_2 жыл бұрын
Yes. Beato does break it down well.
@rayperve Жыл бұрын
is that an actual U2 song, what's it called?? *I don't know much about U2
@jcbaber7521 Жыл бұрын
@@rayperve no, it was a U2 style piece of music.
@Th_RealDirtyDan3 жыл бұрын
Dude your playing has DEFINITELY improved over the last year or so. Keep it up!
@eliasprodger3 жыл бұрын
That solo at the beginning was 🔥🔥🔥
@marcusstrymon6932 жыл бұрын
Wow man what really stands out in your playing are those unbelievable good sounding expressive parts like 0:19... Man that is so insane, also the bends, the whammys, the screaming. This seperates truly expressive and great guitar playing from mindless shredding. Dude seriously you are one of the most skilld guitarplayers that i ever saw. Thanks for that awesome content.
@joshuamessenger3 жыл бұрын
Since I usually play with high gain on the bridge humbucker, I lowered the middle pickup as far down as it would go to get a "cleaner" sound without having to roll off the volume.
@bo-xmusic69403 жыл бұрын
I like the sound of the middle pickup on a strat, it combine the thick kinda bluesy sound of the neck pickup with the sharp tone of the bridge pickup.
@johncrafton83193 жыл бұрын
I personally prefer the out-of-phase sounds of 2 and 4 (when wired that way). The honk and quackiness define the S-type for me.
@liamcristello25913 жыл бұрын
Me, a month ago: I need a new guitar Tyler, a week later: Strat vs. Tele vs. Les Paul comparison Me: 👀 Me, last week: Ok, settled, bought a Strat Tyler, now: Strat position comparison Me: 👀👀👀
@jadevladi8803 жыл бұрын
That's the world of guitars for ya, and Tyler just fuels the fire lol
@reinarddarren85363 жыл бұрын
69 like lmao
@OriginalKingRichTv3 жыл бұрын
Welcome to the strat family
@youssefmostafa62623 жыл бұрын
Fun Fact: Not a lot of people know this but Slow Dancing in a Burning Room by John Mayer was actually recorded using the middle pickup not the middle/neck or neck pickup!
@MikeTaffet3 жыл бұрын
I think a bunch of Hendrix stuff too
@danielleelizabeth94173 жыл бұрын
A lot of people who I know who saw Clapton okay live says he uses the middle. I do lately to when playing his stuff and it sounds closer to his work when using the middle than not.
@j_freed3 жыл бұрын
It’s a more direct sound with less frequency cancellation.
@delgrandephotos3 жыл бұрын
the solo in the end made me feel like i was entering the gates of hell, it was amazing, i loved this video. and the only thing tayler flexes in this channel is his incredible skill. love you man
@bmann7922 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I'd love to know the backing track
@andrecastanheira13343 жыл бұрын
That strat is gorgeous
@ygslyn67323 жыл бұрын
Personally I think it’s fugly but to each their own
@kitten-whisperer3 жыл бұрын
@@ygslyn6732 it is definitely ugly. The roasted neck looks nice but the rest is garbage looking. Reliced guitars always seem to look like absolute trash.
@ygslyn67323 жыл бұрын
@@kitten-whisperer yeah the neck is alright, and I kinda like the multi piece pick guard and the sorta anodized material but holy shit that body is ugly as hell
@Tone-Oz3 жыл бұрын
It looks cool, like it has a story to tell. If anything I prefer a one piece pickguard.
@kyteluna3 жыл бұрын
You should do more stuff like this! It’s very educating!
@alancosens3 жыл бұрын
You're right, that guitar sounds amazing. And Dude, you're playing is just wonderful.
@adammartin35912 жыл бұрын
The opening solo has been your best work i've heard to date
@RanterInShades3 жыл бұрын
I pretty much use the middle selection whenever I’m playing on a clean setting or when I’m wanting a dirty blues sound.
@NBTKDA2 жыл бұрын
Interesting point about the neck pickup being associated with rhythm playing. Dave Murray was my major influence in guitar so I've always looked at it as a primarily lead pickup and the bridge as rhythm.
@pleasantlindsey33 Жыл бұрын
Man, this the best description of pickup sonic differences in a Strat that I have ever seen and heard. You did three things at once, highlighted that guitar, explained the positions, and entertained us. This is how a good video is done.
@m.loughlin1915 Жыл бұрын
Years ago, the seldom, if ever used bridge pickup on my strat took a dump. Removed it, and never bothered replacing it. Middle only, middle+neck, and neck only is all I ever need. Happy playing everyone!!
@paolettiguitars3 жыл бұрын
A great ride on our Loft Series!
@RobChappers3 жыл бұрын
Bro this was really interesting man, I have always just wound the middle pick up down as low as possible and then occasionally used it for funky rhythms or as a “back burner blender” for my neck pick up. This video has made me consider other options so thanks man :-)
@justin489143 жыл бұрын
Aren't you the guy from kdhs video?
@lukemagiera33563 жыл бұрын
Wouldn't you say......."this video was really size"?
@ItsChapa_2 жыл бұрын
@@justin48914 would you not say that people deserve a second chance? People do change after all.
@joonapuurunen56022 жыл бұрын
@@justin48914 he is.
@djencode2 жыл бұрын
@@justin48914 kdhs is a leech that mines internet drama for clicks without having any real talent at all.
@HollowDesert2 жыл бұрын
I love the middle pickup. Especially mixed with the neck. Thats my favorite position.
@havyavahaagnihotri6982 Жыл бұрын
W pfp🗿
@WOMPITUS3 жыл бұрын
I’ve never been a huge fan of the way strats look but I love this one.
@nizodizo95493 жыл бұрын
This is interesting. I always go for the middle pickup on every strat that I pick up.
@dirkda24513 жыл бұрын
yeah i've to really appreciate the middle pickup i switch to the when i want more bite but you can get soo much out the middle pickup alone very under appreciated the has become such a cliché
@timwhite55623 жыл бұрын
I've played a Strat 80% of the time for 25 years, it's only been in the last 5 that I've REALLY got a lot of use from the middle pickup. What did it, besides finding the RIGHT middle pickup, it was rewiring it into basically a "Nashville Tele." The 5-way does nothing in the middle position, and the other 4 is like the 4-way Tele; Neck, neck/bridge, bridge, neck/bridge in series. The neck tone is wired to do the tone for the neck and bridge. The second tone is replaced with a blender pot, that I wire the middle pickup to, then directly out. It doesn't go through the volume of tone control, just the blender out. I use a push pull so I can just cut the pickup out. This way, you can adjust the volume of either the neck/bridge, AND the middle pickup. Usually they're all on the same volume, it REALLY expands the usefulness. As for a singlecoil in the bridge, I cannot disagree more. True, the stock strat with the bridge pickup is limited, but I never keep them stock. At the very least I usually will change the tone controls. I find they usually 1- use WAY too high a capacitor value, so it rolls off too many high frequencies. This usually results in 3 settings: fully open and Bright, a bit warmer, total mud. Lowering it to a 0.22 can make it much more useful. And/or 2- they use a pot with a bad taper. This results in hot-spots where it goes from changing at a smooth balance, to just dropping right out. Beyond that, sometimes changing it to a high-pass filter like the "grease bucket," can make it much more useable. Fender market it is "rolling off highs without increasing bass." Well it's a passive electronic circuit, so you're never adding anything. But normally the tone first rolls off highs, but the more you turn it down, the lower the frequency range it starts to remove as well. So once you get below 7, you start to lose upper mids, but the low-end remains, making it sound like it's added bass. The high pass will compensate by rolling off just a little bass too. You can adjust the bass to treble ratio however you want it. You can get a straight humbucker sound out of a singlecoil, albeit with less output so you may need to use a boost. But you can get things from a singlecoil with a high pass that you can't with a humbucker, which can work especially well in conjunction with the other pickups.
@matthewmjb68603 жыл бұрын
👏👏👏 I actually read the whole thing. For the most part, I agree with you, especially the tone knobs rolling off high then mid and singles having better high output than buckers.
@timwhite55623 жыл бұрын
@@matthewmjb6860 so you're the one that made it to the end? LOL. Yeah, using the lower cap value really can help that since the lower the value the narrower the frequency range is effected. I find a . 022 affects all the treble frequencies that I need to be able to roll off, but leaves the rest intact. Thanks.
@mal2ksc2 жыл бұрын
@@timwhite5562 I had the ability to switch tone caps for a while, using a push-pull pot. I used this to A-B test between .022 and .033, and between .033 and .047. Like you, I decided to go with the .022 because it's easy enough to cut even further with EQ, but not so easy to try to boost frequencies that have been lost. I rewired to run all pickups through the same Tone control (which, if pulled, drops out of circuit entirely -- it's exactly the same setup as when it was choosing tone cap, except one of them is now missing) and put a Bass control (shamelessly lifted from G&L ASAT designs) in place of the other, since I have all "hot rails" pickups and they can be a bit bass-heavy. I usually leave this around 9, rarely roll it below 7 (or things get really thin), and have the option of turning up to 10 when I want to increase distortion without a huge increase in apparent volume. All the extra bass gets lost in the mix, but it still pushes the amp nicely. I tried splitting the hot rails, but using them in single coil mode sounds worse than the $5-for-a-set-of-three single coils that came with my kit, and those are already ridiculously noisy. They're OK when not split though (the noise problems are certainly solved), and with the bass rolled off they don't immediately scream "mini humbucker!"
@JRJigsawyer2 жыл бұрын
This is very interesting. Can you tell me what you mean by neck/bridge in series? Is the grease bucket a .22 cap itself? And the blend knob for the middle pu- that's basically a volume for that pu that doesn't run through the tone control and it's a push/pull so you can just take it out of the circuit? Just trying to understand, I really want a strat but the problems you highlighted are ones I agree with and would want to address through kidding once I get one. Thanks!
@sirspongadoodle8 ай бұрын
please please please please please please please please FUCKING please stop thinking that there is such thing as the "right" pickup, pickups with even light overdrive sound identical... not my opinion its a fact, check out spectre sound studios video on pickups for the proof.
@Ba_A2 жыл бұрын
This is one of the best videos ever made explaining guitar pick ups for a Fender.
@ericburnett81632 жыл бұрын
I've had a HSS mexico strat that I bought new in 2009 and I've been needing this video ever since
@nikosthebluesfan84813 жыл бұрын
You need to get Yourself a Gilmour type strat or one with a mini toggle switch. That’ll get u 3 more pickup positions making 8 (really 7 but you’ll get neck and middle in phase which brings juice but cleaner)
@randaji3 жыл бұрын
Or replace that extra tone knob you never use with a blend knob and add just the right amount of the Neck or Bridge pickup to any position.
@DobDog1513 жыл бұрын
I’ve owned a Mexi Strat for 20 years and pretty much only played in middle position. Not sure why, just preferred that sound.
@Exspazament3 жыл бұрын
I miss my mexi strat.
@creamydistortion3 жыл бұрын
Same here... My Mexican strat is a '97. Over time, the middle pickup has really changed to a perfect tone, the neck is too muddy, the bridge is great as always... I use the middle perhaps 80% of the time...
@demanibrown67623 жыл бұрын
@@creamydistortion can't go wrong with that position 2 tho
@creamydistortion3 жыл бұрын
@@demanibrown6762 Yes, that's a great sound.
@lifeinthejazzlane2 жыл бұрын
Great video, great concept. You listen to Jeff Beck for 45 seconds and realize how tragically underutilized YOUR guitar actually is. This kinda info definitely makes a difference
@HundredDollarVideo3 жыл бұрын
I love my Paoletti. Probably the most useful sounds out of the several S type guitars I have. The Chestnut wood (the 150+ year old wine barrels the guitar is made from) is super bright and resonant and Paoletti pickups are just gorgeous. The best part is each Paoletti has a slightly different finish, so no one owns one that looks exactly like yours... and THAT ONE is gorgeous. Fabrizio (and the entire Paoletti staff) make some incredible instruments.
@HundredDollarVideo3 жыл бұрын
And, the tones are amazing through a clean amp and more so distinguishable. You can lose pickup voicing by overdriving too much, as the pedal or amp starts to take over the voice instead of the sound of the pickups you've selected.
@JumboJimbo0153 жыл бұрын
Ah yes the middle pickup! To me it’s more of the SRV sound than the other pickup positions. That “Pale Eddy” guitar’s pretty nice as well. 😜
@raytorvalds36993 жыл бұрын
lol, "Pale Eddy" was a good one. I actually laughed out loud on that one. Cheers !
@Spongebob-lf5dn3 жыл бұрын
I like how Tyler puts effort and creativity into every solo, some other guitarists sound pretty repetitive & uninspiring.
@BOOGiNS2 жыл бұрын
"some other guitarists"... Afraid to be specific? Nick Johnston, ichika nito, Buckethead, David Gilmore... So many better guitarists to listen to than him. Simp much?
@absolutscheisse44832 жыл бұрын
@@BOOGiNS bruh relax he's just trying to complement him.
@RichardDeBerryOfficial2 жыл бұрын
@@BOOGiNS Bro got offended over a compliment. Sad. It's not a contest either, so there really is no 'better' guitarist to listen to.
@sirspongadoodle8 ай бұрын
@@BOOGiNS those that you listed are pretty gay
@sirspongadoodle8 ай бұрын
i like his solos however god damn does the shilling for prs and the bs about tonewood/pickups make me angry... like he already has the money he really doesnt need to lie as much as he does... and he is blatently lying too as he is friends with glenn fricker who has debunked pickups and tonewood.
@yohanonshine46643 жыл бұрын
There are favorites of switch positions for every song and solo to me all positions are your favorite if you truly love that instrument.
@TheeRocker2 жыл бұрын
Getting ready to start watching, and I already know the answer. The middle pickup is for me !!!
@photoshopcafe2 жыл бұрын
Tyler in every position, "It's xx yelling" Guess who likes aggressive guitar?
@timothymorrismusic3 жыл бұрын
The ignorance of the middle pickup has always baffled me, that's where I spend about 80% of my time on a Strat.
@MarcCoteMusic3 жыл бұрын
Same.
@connorcable87853 жыл бұрын
the intro solo to this made me put down my guitar and then immediately pick it back up i wish to be like you one day mr larson
@DaVaii3 жыл бұрын
I have a strat-type guitar, that is actually H-H-S setup, i think that is pretty rare. And I use that middle humbucker quite often 🙂
@nathanbundy56512 жыл бұрын
H-H-S are actually fairly new to the market, hence why you don't see many. Within the last 10, maybeeeeeee 15 years
@sydwynd3 жыл бұрын
I've had plenty of HSS strats and never liked that you get a volume drop off from position 1 to 2 (bridge to bridge middle). I went back to SSS strats and like it much better. My preferred sound is the bridge and middle together. I get plenty of the strat sound I like with some punch with gain.
@sjvieaux83122 жыл бұрын
I love that last little bit he did with the neck/mid
@TheMeJustMe758 ай бұрын
I have an old RG470 with the V7, S1 and V8 pickups. I bought it brand new in 1994 when I was a senior in highschool. I loved the way it sounded but now it makes my skin crawl, clean or distorted. On a quest to bring life back into the guitar.
@danedgar15392 жыл бұрын
"Just guitar into amp".......but with a 10 thousand dollar overdrive between them
@Ben-wm9vz3 жыл бұрын
My strat has a HSH Red Active Humbuckers. I prefer the bridge/middle combo.
@afifdaniel96263 жыл бұрын
what genre do you usually play using that combo?
@Ben-wm9vz3 жыл бұрын
@@afifdaniel9626 still learning right now and using a learning app so what ever genre is in front of me
@afifdaniel96263 жыл бұрын
@@Ben-wm9vz oh yeah good to know,good luck in your journey.
@Ben-wm9vz3 жыл бұрын
@@afifdaniel9626 thanks, it all sounds terrible at the moment lol. 3 hours hours day and I can't seem to get better..
@afifdaniel96263 жыл бұрын
@@Ben-wm9vz thats normal I've been in that moment you just have to pick up your guitar as much as you could,even if you don't know how to play,just doodling with it still help
@Jaspertine3 жыл бұрын
back when I had a Strat, the middle pickup was my go-to for clean tone. Even now, I use a Tele, and my go-to for clean tone is both pickups on.
@raytorvalds36993 жыл бұрын
Tele clean with both pickups on is a beautiful thing. I love (and do) that too.
@D0tHead2 жыл бұрын
Came for the guitar, but stayed for the shoes. Your shoe/Guitar pairing is totally on point. Pure Boutique.
@sethkaicer3193 жыл бұрын
Chris Farley informed music is win that he would end up living in a van down by the river!
@antoonhermans89533 жыл бұрын
Excuse me , but every strat player knows you have to turn down the tone knob on a strat while playing the single coil brigde pick up and it will sound great , so no need for a humbucker pu there . Humbuckers and P 90 pu's don't belong on strat's and tele's , they are for gibson like guitars , in my humble opinion anyway's , i know there are a lot off guitarplayers who will disagree : )
@maxsalmon15733 жыл бұрын
*Laughs in Charvel*
@ramsonk3 жыл бұрын
it's me, i disagree
@wilssantos23 жыл бұрын
I 100% disagree haha. The humbucker on a strat-type guitar is the hard rock sound, which is not possible on a single coil (and sounds different on a Gibson)
@antoonhermans89533 жыл бұрын
@@ryanijyu533 thanks , so far , 2 votes for original strat pu set up , 2 nay sayers in the comments : )
@antoonhermans89533 жыл бұрын
@@wilssantos2 i understand , but for me a strat is not an hard rock guitar , the super strat's for the 80's / the van halen strat mod's are like , mmmmm , i don't know what to call them , frankenstein's ? : ) maybe i am to much of a purist , but for me fenders are single coil guitars ( although offcourse a P90 is also a single coil , wich is one off my favorite pu's , but then on an lp/sg or an ES 330/335 ) .
@steveelling96043 жыл бұрын
Dude, you really killed it with the playing in this vid, especially the intro.
@kerrymcauliffe99062 жыл бұрын
Tyler...this is your next level. Bro you really nailed it on expressing your ideas here.
@kerrymcauliffe99062 жыл бұрын
Fluxing jam up playing too btw.
@m.garcon88243 жыл бұрын
Shotgun shells. Wine barrel's wood. Lmao.
@alexthebuilderman3523 жыл бұрын
hey Tyler I'm kind of stuck in a rut I'm suck in between playing scales and the same old riffs what do you recommend
@Ben-wm9vz3 жыл бұрын
Learn new riffs, challenge yourself with song you are less familiar
@wesleywallace1013 жыл бұрын
Agreed with the guy above…if your attention span is short and learning a whole new song is difficult, learn a short section that you like…explore new styles. If you’ve been primarily doing rock stuff, explore some r&b…you’d be surprised how introducing yourself to a new style can really open up more of your playing Also, listen to more music/guitarists! The stuff you listen to is vital!
@jameshickson81743 жыл бұрын
Make your own riffs.
@Aakarsh10683 жыл бұрын
I like to keep switching up stuff, you know. Try learning sections of a song and then move on to some other section in a different song. Loop over to the previous song again in a while after you've gone through several other songs. Helps in developing technique and keeps the monotony away.
@Tama313 жыл бұрын
That is probably one of the best finishes I have seen on a strat. Would love to have one finished like that.
@bryana2973 жыл бұрын
Thought it was just me. Im not into reliced, but that is more than simply reliced
@area8593 жыл бұрын
Wow the tones from that guitar are AMAZING. Classic fender tone ..SRV, ETC...Noooice
@ThePurpleAndRed3 жыл бұрын
yeah, but this is an hss style strat, the “real” strat is sss.
@gregpetre12253 жыл бұрын
The color scheme on that strat is f'n awesome!!!!
@Archy2473 жыл бұрын
I just bought my first guitar last week and it has a HSS pickup configuration. This video was very helpful! Looking forward to it being delivered this Friday
@raytorvalds36993 жыл бұрын
Good choice !
@daniel_naaden3 жыл бұрын
i love using the middle pickup for solos, typically, and then flip them into positions 2 and 4 when i need the hiss to die out.
@anthony91623 жыл бұрын
Okay best guitar intro so far hands down
@barrykerslake77623 жыл бұрын
Came here for the interesting topic but ultimately the playing prevailed! Superb!
@thrawl3 жыл бұрын
I was amazed and almost slightly hypnotized from those perfect overtones coming out at just the right blend during that U2 part.
@chilldude303 жыл бұрын
holy shit the intro was by far the best playing ive seen on this channel... incredible
@ElevenBravo3 жыл бұрын
13:00 That swampy jam had me sold. Great stuff!! 👍
@anthonyglennmollicasr.4253 жыл бұрын
Thank you for a great demo oh the HSS, one of the very best on KZfaq!
@sadyakubovich3 жыл бұрын
Every single one of this musical demostrations is such a banger!
@kennrayy3 жыл бұрын
Love that at 60 you are still teaching me more about guitarchitecture!!
@brethall20062 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the vid. Explains a lot of problems I could never get my head around.
@bothpinkysbroken2 жыл бұрын
I listened 3 times now to that last solo.. that moment when the wah kicks in.. WTF goosebumps everywhere insane sound, love it!
@flackanator12 жыл бұрын
Your demonstrations of equipment are the best on the web, Thank you
@carsandhealthtoddrosenzwei26612 жыл бұрын
Tyler WAS a guitar in his previous life and now is expressing his guitar feelings to us, not only through music, but with his blasts of helpful knowledge in every video. While it's simplistic... I love my Ibanez RG140. 1988 MODEL
@gastonpossel2 жыл бұрын
Bridge-Mid and Mid-Neck positions gives you parallel coils (instead of two coils in series as in humbuckers). Depending on how it's wired, parallel coil positions can also be noise-cancelling. Parallel coils will output less and more thin than single or series coils, because they give less impedance, specially in the low end.
@bradswanson67883 жыл бұрын
All analysis of pick-up positions aside, the playing on this clip was top freaking shelf stuff.
@philldag3 жыл бұрын
That Edge sounding stuff you did with the delay - awesome!
@kakodae62985 ай бұрын
DUDE!!!😃 What a beautiful touch you have man!🤘🏻🤘🏿🤘🏽