Strat neck pick up

Hootsmon

Learnin' the Strat ropes folks 

I gather most folks love the neck pick up, i am curious though,in general do you leave the tone full on for that p/up or roll back for "more" bass?

Thanks guys 

DrJazzTap

On full for single coils, generally about 7-8 for humbuckers

Hootsmon

A roll back for HBs Dr Tap? do go on.....

mrkb

A strat neck pickup isn’t a humbucker!

i have Tone on full as there’s not a lot of high end on neck pickups so I wang to keep all there is.

DrJazzTap

hootsmon said:

A roll back for HBs Dr Tap? do go on.....

Only a partial one, on the SG to get a fatter Claptonesq/ santana type lead tone.

PhilM

Both my gigging strats have the neck PU (Oil City Stone Tone) wired to a no-load tone pot so I can remove it from the circuit totally. Rarely moves from the "not in the circuit" position if I'm honest!

ZenOvertone

PhilM said:

Both my gigging strats have the neck PU (Oil City Stone Tone) wired to a no-load tone pot so I can remove it from the circuit totally. Rarely moves from the "not in the circuit" position if I'm honest!

This is the one, the neck pickup sounds way better wide open!  

MattFGBI

Everything on 11. 

prowla

You can roll back the tone for some bluesy parts.

chris78

I leave the neck on full, but a tone control to roll off the highs on the bridge is essential 

TTBZ

Neck on full for me but strats need a tone wired up to the bridge pickup imo. Makes it go from harsh and icepick to somewhat usable.

Th4fonz

Go for whatever your ears are telling you at that moment Id say.  I play at max and rolled off.  Get used to changing the knobs whilst your playing so it becomes second nature.

Sassafras

What's a tone control?

ICBM

The neck pickup is actually quite bright - particularly in a ‘compensated’ set where it has the lowest winding - it’s just that when you’re playing low on the neck it gets mostly string fundamentals not harmonics. If you play right at the top of the neck it sounds more like a bridge pickup, because it’s then close to the end of the string - overall it sounds brighter than the middle pickup, which is never that close to the end of the string.

HAL9000

I roll the tone back to about 2-3 on the neck for a fairly mellow and warm lead sound.