Why Would Anyone Buy A Single Pickup Guitar? 

funny, I have dozens of guitars, the only ones with one pickup are lap steels.

ofcourse malcom young's gretch guitar

Your Solus F1

LP Jr

@@martijnkooiman3282 Trueeeeeeeeee

paul davids 😊

Thanks man!

You really know how to paint the picture. It's like I'm right there

Who else read that in this decent dutch accent?

I realize now you mean any convertible, at first I thought you meant a road trip in a VW cabrio, and I was like...WHY.

yeah the middle one ;)

Ayyy

Definitely!

My sympathies - I'll send the fat girls your direction also!

Hi master funkyta ♡

Watching this the day that fender announced a tele with a single p90 in the neck.... GAS engaged!

And YOU get it done also ;)

Always

Wow Robert Baker! Jimmy page only used the bridge on his Tele. I believe the neck pickup Was busted

The hands has more tonality than all the switches, knobs, wiggle sticks and pickups you could slap onto a plank.

Yo man that opening bit look up Heart Full of Soul - Yardbirds. Btw love your videos man, fan for over a year now.

Love it!

Man, I've watched a ton of your videos but had no idea that you're a guitarist. Anywhere I can hear you play?

I saw that and thought, "That portastudio probably cost less than the Chase Bliss he's playing through" lol

Did not even knew you played guitar. Cool

I edited this because some didnt get my point. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I Guess is just personal preference and like . yes i have tried many different guitars over past 35 years of playing guitar ,that include single pickup guitars . personally i prefer multi pickups , it give me more sound choices . single pickup guitar only have one sound . In beginning I was thinking it is just personal preference and such but now i doubt . The way people defend and attack when talking about those make me think it is more like a hype thing and people who have limited themself they defend by downing people who is not on the hype . Yes I prefer multi pickups compared to a guitar with just one single sound . End of line .....

Pretty sure you can just add a pedal or if you have multiple channels or a system like Kemper or Helix you can quickly switch to something tailored to your neck pick-up. But I don't really think most people even want a change when going to the neck for any such reason, it's a pretty small minority. I think you're reaching a bit

​@@kennethsrensen7706 There's a logical contradiction in your words. You seem to lie to yourself and to the people who read your comment. You say you prefer multi pickup guitars, and at the same time you say you've never thought of a single pickup guitar. The latter means you do not play such a guitar on a regular basis. Which, in its turn, means you're not acquainted with single pickup guitar experience, at least profoundly enough. Thus you cannot 'prefer' one over the other. Such preference is not a choice between two experiences of yours, but it is a choice between familiar stuff and unfamiliar stuff. Such preference is typical for human beings and many other animals, so such preference is negligible. In order to prefer multi-pickup guitar, please, play thoroughly on a single pickup one for about a year. Otherwise your comment should be rephrased: "I know nothing about single pickup guitars, I'm cool with multi-pickup ones." -Which is totally okay. Wish you all the best, man!😊

Exactly, you can actually focus on what matters

And analysis paralysis is definitely a realy thing too! When it's my turn to host band practice I have to fight the urge to switch guitars song to song. I'm much more focused when I'm out with one guitar. Maybe one pickup is the next logical step.

I'm a twenty-something music producer and this shit is my mantra. I don't have loads of gear, I've only got a knock off strat and four pedals, but the hardest part when you've got a daw open in front of you is thinking "if I can do anything, the fuck do I do first?" :')

For some reason, I think this is both equally fuckin' stupid and an absolute genius way to put it [relating to single-pickup guitars]. I hate it so much I'm going to use it all the time lol

Funny coincidence, but I just finished watching your one pickup guitar video, the 50's Esquire. I don't know what you were playing that through, but it sounded really, really good.

Do you really need anything else than a neck pup tho? I always use a different guitar for the other sounds as they just sound better.

@@EstelonAgarwaen neck for rhythm lead, neck middle is good for rhythm and pretty sounding stuff, middle can get a good blues tone with good sustain, back middle can do funky stuff, bridge is good for lead obviously and country

@@lukeweston1234 Thanks for the tips man. its just that i kinda hate the strat bridge sound when its there and miss it when i dont have it available. (i had my strat modded to hss for some time). i just like other bridge pickups way more.

Or a Les Paul with humbuckers... unless it’s only a neck pickup

Totally agree but he's playing into like 10 pedals so maybe not so simple after all 😂

was the weed any good?

Ouch

Yes, that was very, very stupid!

I'm absolutely flabbergasted and horrified by this story. Trade something that can last 1000 years for something you can smoke up in 30 minutes. Your dealer won that deal. Lmao

Heartbreaking story!

Damn right! RIP Leslie

Yeah I know what you mean, she taught me everything

sometimes i wonder why i even have other pickups than the neck one in my strat. i almost never use them. i grab my prs or my tele for those sounds.

@Haeral i will ;)

Couldn’t have said it better. I feel the same way about drum kits.

Bingo. Thats why I will always prefer them over Js

Some guy named Edward Van Halen managed to get by with just a bridge humbucker.

@@ultrahighgain412 never heard of him. Can he tap like Tim Henson?

I've got one, it's my only guitar. Used to have a tele and an sg and dont miss them one bit. The controls on your guitar are your friend with it.

And that's why Fender can now sell "Broadcaster" Tele-pickup sets and Broadcaster-named Teles!

I'm building a single humbucker strat because i think less options can lead to make me be more creative with what i have

@@Red-lm7xo It's usually very easy to add a coil split switch. You must have access to the wire between both coils. Using shielded wires, I did it myself to the humbucker of my Yamaha Pacifica 112. The switch connects the first coil to either ground or the second coil. It is that simple. No expensive pot you can pull, I added a heavy duty switch to the pot cavity. Click, SC or H. And you bet it is worth the risk of damaging the coils, when removing the sticky tape. That's why you need to be pretty careful. Or buy a humbucker that has the extra wires. I put that humbucker as the middle pickup, not the bridge, in a Maya Strat. Sounds good. And if you have not considered it, you could think about adding a coil split. Anyhow, have fun, building a guitar is a good thing. I understand that other comment. What I like best in a strat, is positions two and for. That's why I simplified that Pacifica to a strat with three single coils, and it has one switch: position 2 or position 4 only. I needed the 5-switch in another FrankenTeleStrat, and haven't bought a new one, yet. What I learned by repairing and tinkering, doing things like screwing a Tele bridge on a Strat body, is that the result is often a surprise. Oops, that Squier Tele neck pickup has a huge output. Maybe I should add a preamp for the single coil bridge pickup. That costs, and it needs a battery or some power supply. Do I want that? And of course it needs some setup, balancing two pickups, getting all strings on the brink of overdrive. Yep, it's good to find out. My Maya strat has 3 different pickups now, and it's a joy to have so much choice. The Squier neck pickup is just like a spanish guitar. The humbucker is great. And a single coil bridge sounds almost like a banjo. Where you pick them is only adding more variation. Maybe that's normal, but I have just discovered it. Wow. And now it is time for a single pickup guitar. No magnetic fields pushed to a slightly different pattern, one pickup alone is not influenced by another pickup. Distance plays a role here, when magnets are just a little bit further apart, you can feel the force is a whole lot weaker. Having a middle pickup or not is important, bridge and neck are quite far apart. Add a middle one, and that can mess up the fields. Maybe you can hear it, when you are aware how the guitar sounds without that middle pickup. Polarity makes a difference. What's his name, his guitar was repaired during a concert, and in a hurry one pickup got installed the other way round, and you get that signal fase inversion, yes, different. That's a nice option on better guitars, those flip the two pickup wires, red or black. Ha, that'll be a next project for me. All you need is a double switch. So, I need to play a while, checking wether my expectations were okay. Hmmm. Lots of text.

yeah totally! I see all these videos saying how the front position is unusable, but I highly disagree. Throw some fuzz or overdrive on there and the sounds you get are incredible. I'm a big esquire fan, I've got a couple partscaster versions (and I'm always changing one from a tele to an esquire and then back because why not)

I'm sorry if it's a silly question, but what does "changing position" do on an Esquire which has only one pickup? I always see the pickup selector and wonder what it does

@@CarloscFr the back position bypasses the tone. The middle position is with the tone like a regular tele. The forward position runs through a cap that changes the tone to more of a bass sound.

Same! I'm with you

Great name for a band!

If you've built a neck only Tele, try this configuration. Mix the magnets, A3 on the low three and A5 on the rest on a Tele neck bobbin. 43 awg wire, 8.5k winds, tight scatter. Use 500k pots, tone control as bass cut rather than treble roll. (If you need to cut treble, use the volume control and amp/pedal instead to dial it I don't know of a situation that requires rolling treble of a Tele neck.) The configuration of the mixed magnet will avoid the mud when strumming and the bass cut will do the same and keep it focused on higher gain settings when picking. Clean, you can get it close to hollow body tones, it can also do a convincing mic'd acoustic. With gain,or dirt, hard to compare as the bass cut range makes for interesting tones.

In the Five Watt World video on Juniors, Jeff McErlain showed that if you rolled back both the tone and volume knobs on a Junior, you get a really nice scooped, sparkly sound. I'm betting if you pick or strum close to the bridge, you can get a nice clean in-between sound for funk parts. And you can definitely get the awesome arpeggios or arpeggiated chords that I usually associate with the middle pickup on a Strat or the in-between position on a Les Paul, especially if your single pickup is a P-90.

What ever happened to "Nicholai's Roof" on top of the Sheraton in Atlanta? Russian. I ate a seven course meal there with caribou in the spinning restaurant with my 7 Colombian guests from Cali. Stayed at the Marriott Marquis. The tab I paid on my company card was $1300 after all the wine too, just dinner. Prince Fazal was there also as a Guest of Cumberland Farms, who is now King Fazal in Saudi Arabia, I met him.

Excellent! Now fkv!

you're missing out

Same..

@@iwillnevergetone5 not really, up to the player what suits their playing. You could be missing out by keep switching pickups position yet never master actual tone of you hands.

Love those Rampages and so did Jerry Cantrell Also love my G&L ASAT

I have an ‘86 Rampage. I don’t know how the reissues are but I still love mine. The locking nut is bleh (Cantrell replaced his with a Floyd Rose) but I never use the whammy bar and the fine tuners really dial in the tuning. I wish they put fine tuners on all guitars (even ones without a locking nut!)

That one pickup has nothing to do with the quality of neck though

@@ak47dragunov Didn’t say that it did. That guitar isn’t super common like a strat, tele, or the like; so I threw that comment in for those not familiar with that guitar. Here, I’ll edit it slightly for you.

@Luke He still does.

Cool Thanks for that. Been thinking of picking one up. Really impressed by the Classic Vibe series.

@@dr_tomK they have so much more volue compared on what you pay. I suggest you to try the 50's series, whith the maple fretboard. The "rosewood" ones don't feel good as the maple ones.

CV tele’s are amazing

Classic Vibes are killer guitars.

I have an older CV 60's Tele when they first came out maybe 2011 when real rosewood was still being used. It's one my favorite guitars and I've had a ton. Upgraded the pickups and it's set. Never goes out of tune.

The "Wes Paul" special run hollow body Les Paul is the only neck only single pick up guitar I know of.

@@jnuhjnuh There have been of quite a few neck-pup only guitars. It was most common on Jazz archtops, but a lot of old Japanese guitars did it as well. Kay, Silvertone, Danelectro, Harmony… There were also a number of guitars with only one pickup, but in the middle position.

I got socks :-( from a company called Cock :-)

Awwww LUCKY! Nothing like some fresh new undies bro. That’s a good woman. It’s the tittle things

@@goswo The old Cock Sock.

You are lucky. My wife stole my underwear.

@@adhaskym.a9536 you are lucky too. You have a wife that likes to play in your underwear. That's a good thing! Lol

Double cut TV yellow junior is the ultimate rock n roll machine.

It looks like they might add a goldtop and I need it

"What a waste of time.." I get your point, but that little remark was unnecessary and rude. I mean... why say that? lol

​@@JoelyPera I get that it sounds mean, in fact I had mixed feelings about adding that remark and I'm still thinking if I should edit it out. To better explain myself, I've decided to unsubscribed from Rhett (and a few other popular guitar RU-vidrs) because I'm seeing a very clear pattern that essentially amounts to clickbait, i.e. unnecessarily long videos with inviting titles that ultimately fail to deliver on the promised subject. I think that Rhett is a great player and his videos are beautifully filmed, however the volume of content and quality of videography seem to take precedence over substance / quality of underlying research. His "What is X Sound?" video series is another example of this - hours of talk, yet the amount of concrete information is vanishingly small. In my opinion this is quite disrespectful to the viewers.

@@boshi9 Okay. That makes complete sense. Thanks for the clarity and keeping things cool 🙏🏽

You are completely right, he uses the quote in a wrong way. A different point of picking excites different modes i.e. overtones of the string. However, a bridge pickup will always pick up more harmonic content and in a neck pickup the fundamental mode will always be more present and if you fret higher, the fundamentals' maximum will shift towards the neck PU.

@@boshi9 So well said in such a beautiful manner ! As for every subject, there is multiple layers of subtility and this applies to clickbait titles : you might find the obvious "Pentatonic scales are NOT useful" (usually the youtuber will teach pentatonics but talking about squares/triangles) but famous other youtubers are much more subtle, their title is a clickbait without being it, as it does not reitarate the obvious strategy. So it is hard to accuse them and protects them from having a bad buzz. But honestly, 15 minutes videos that can be shortened in 5 minutes are frustrating. As you, I don't point Brett or anyone's guitar playing, it is just frustrating to get into a 15 min video, take time to concentrate, understand (if english is not one's primary language) and to get a mixed feeling at the end... But that's the game and everything started when YT monetized the videos, asking for longer videos in order to get more commercial slots etc.

They WHAT

Yeah tf you talking about

Look for Noventa Telecaster

Noventa series. Single P90 tele, 2 P90 strat, 3 P90 jazzmaster 😉

The last bass I bought was a used Fernandes with only a Musican style pick up and after a cleaning and a set-up it became my main gigging bass. One pickup, one volume and one tone knobs and that's all. Yesterday the guy who sold me hinted me to sell him the bass back.