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Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: keano on September 05, 2006, 10:17:13 PM

Title: More mids = Better lead tone/sustain?
Post by: keano on September 05, 2006, 10:17:13 PM

Are pickups that are more mid heavy better for soloing? And singing sustain?

Title: More mids = Better lead tone/sustain?
Post by: TwilightOdyssey on September 05, 2006, 10:20:59 PM

Not necessarily. But the guitar is a midrange instrument, predominantly. Why not capitalize on it and cut through the mix better?

Title: More mids = Better lead tone/sustain?
Post by: Peter Antal on September 05, 2006, 10:58:06 PM

Dynamic range is also an important factor in 'loudness' / cutting through the mix.

Title: More mids = Better lead tone/sustain?
Post by: keano on September 05, 2006, 11:17:51 PM

Sounds like your both saying go for a mid sounding pup then?

Is the CS middy enough?

Title: More mids = Better lead tone/sustain?
Post by: steve on September 06, 2006, 12:01:58 AM

Quote from: keano

Sounds like your both saying go for a mid sounding pup then?

Is the CS middy enough?

For a big big tone that cuts through the mix i would say the CS. Loads of mids.

Title: More mids = Better lead tone/sustain?
Post by: downrodeo on September 06, 2006, 12:17:35 AM

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Is the CS middy enough?

OH YEAH! :twisted:

Title: More mids = Better lead tone/sustain?
Post by: JamesHealey on September 06, 2006, 09:05:39 AM

I've never been a "mid scooper" i dont like having no mids..

I mean some of my favourite guitar tones are Vai, Satriani, Van Halen, Andy Timmons and various others and they're not shy on mids..

and yes mids do make you cut through live, I've found though every BKP i've used has just sliced the mix anyway.

Title: More mids = Better lead tone/sustain?
Post by: hunter on September 06, 2006, 09:54:01 AM

Depends on what kind of mids.

When I listen to some of the best Strat lead tones (in between ones by David Gilmour for example) they aren't smoothed out for infinite sustain by lower mids, but are rather "thin" somehow, heavily boosted and still sound huge in the mix with the amount of reverb and delay that he uses.

Maybe there's a trade off between boosted mids and lots of delay/reverb, you can use one or the other but not both together in a complex mix.

Title: More mids = Better lead tone/sustain?
Post by: Ratrod on September 06, 2006, 11:04:30 AM

Mids really help you cut through the mix. I was in a band with a loud dominant sounding bass guitar and another guitarist who was cranking his amp against the bass. My Crawler equipped guitar had no problem cutting through without being too loud.