Which is more adaptable to various styles of music, solid or hollow/semi hollow?

[MBE]

Originally Posted by Pualee

I'm going to throw out an ignorant question here...

How different of a tone do you get with the same pickup in multiple spots... assuming all else is the same?

On the strat you have 3 pickups, all the same, the wiring changes some of the positions, and the lack of tone control changes the bridge, but really... would you get 3 different sounds if all 3 were wired the same?

Likewise with a LP style guitar (2 humbuckers)... if the tone/volume were set the same for both, how different would they really be?

That schecter lists both humbuckers as the same thing.

Night and day difference. We're not talking "D28 vs D18" difference (to use an acoustic example). We're talking "D18 vs national tricone resonator".

A neck pickup and a bridge pickup sound totally different because of the different way the string is vibrating at the point that it is being sensed. Toward the neck, you get more bass, less treble, a softer attack and just a totally different tone to the edgier, "harder" attack, less-bassy and more-trebly tone of a bridge position pickup.

Just check out any demo that runs through different pickup positions, like this one:

[Bob Womack]

Originally Posted by Pualee

How different of a tone do you get with the same pickup in multiple spots... assuming all else is the same?

Consider the Gibson Grabber Bass. In the '70s, a friend of mine had one.



Yep, that really is a pickup on a sliding panel. As you moved it towards the neck the tone mellowed. As you moved it towards the bridge the tone got sharper.

Bob

[imwjl]

One more dynamic to consider now that we've moved to pickups - 2 vs 4 knob guitars.

After having 2 and 4 knob guitars I realized a 4 knob configuration is part of some classic or desirable tone.