Just curious for all the strat players. I'm always tweaking my tone on my amps and jump alot between the bridge pickup and neck pickup for soloing.
I find however, that if I crank the mids (which I like to do) the tone is great for the bridge pup, but then comes across as too dark on the neck. Likewise, if I turn the mids down and get a nice tone out of the neck, it's too much treble for the bridge and comes across as that "ice pick" tone.
I've set my amp for the neck pup and use the tone control on the bridge to compensate so I can switch between the two. The patches on Patchtronix.com and Valvetronix.net are okay, but seem to be for one pickup only...plus the creators of the patches rarely specify which pup they use.
Just curious what others do? I like to keep my Valvetronix with one channel clean and the other dirty. I'm considering using the footswitch to do a 3rd channel (manual) that way I have two lead settings..one for bridge and one for neck.
Anyone found a good "universal" setting that works well on both pups? All amps are different, as I don't have that problem with my Hughes and Kettner...one setting sounds really good on both pups, but the Valvetronix takes alot more tweaking.
Thanks in advance...