| Guitar Pickups | ||
| What's In a Pickup? | ||
| Pickup Variety | ||
| Tone & Timbre | ||
| Different Positions | ||
| Combining Pickups | ||
| What I Use | ||
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| Guitar Pickups - Summary |
Here's a summary of the key points:
- If you play live, avoid too much tonal variety on the one instrument - a wide selection of different timbres is far more useful.
- Again for live players, avoid cumbersome pickup selection systems - use a simple arrangement to select between the good sounds.
- Play along with music to test how your sounds will stand out in a band to avoid the impractical sounds.
- Use pickups with similar impedances for combined (specially parallel in-phase) pickups.
- Choose different sounding pickups for series combinations.
- Don't believe advertising hype - your own ears will tell what's hot and what's not.