Different types of guitars have pros and cons but I do love the feel of the contoured body of a strat, it's comfortable and just feels right to me. I love Les Pauls and Teles but it's not comfortable like a strat is to me.
However, I seem to be constantly hitting the middle pickup with my pick and/or fingers. This can either be whilst picking individual strings or at the bottom of a full down-strokes when strumming chords and funk rhythm. Sometimes it's the plastic pickup cover and sometimes the pole pieces. It's annoying, where as on my tele there is so much freedom and real-estate to just pick in different places.
Does anyone else have the same issue? any thoughts on how to get around it?
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I don't think I've had it as an issue with a pick, may be a set up issue if your pick up is that close to the strings (?), with hybrid picking I just have to move my hand behind or ahead of the middle pickup and get my brain adjusted to it. I suspect my strat pick ups are set quite low though, although that's more because I have an issue with popping the strings on the bridge pickup - any guitar I ever pick up I usually have to lower the pickups.
I have exactly the same issue, a legacy of my mainly HH format guitars, I sink the middle pickup to the scratchplate on my Strat.
I don’t use that pickup on it’s own very much so it does not make that much difference to me if it is quieter, and I can’t tell any difference when it’s used in combination with the other pickups
Try it and see - if you dont like they way it sounds it's a 10 second fix!
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
I don't think I could replicate the problem if I tried.
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I’d suggest spending some time using the Strat preferentially to see if you can unconsciously train yourself out of it.
Me neither. My pick doesn't go under the strings for it to hit the pickup. Must be a technique thing.
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Looking at the gold cover of my middle humbucker, it's had a far amount of wear over the years, but I'm never aware of it when playing.
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