wfs1234 wrote:I think an electric with a resonator body, a humbucker in the neck, one of those teisco pickups in the bridge, a pickup selector switch and a volume knob would be perfect. It'd feedback like nuts at any volume and kill everything with treble. A tone-selector switch, ala the danelectro select-o-matic, would be pretty awesome too but not necessary.
holy smokes
now were talkin
Yeah, I've been thinking about this for a while...
If you hit it with your hand while you were playing, even without distortion or high gain whatevers, you'd get some crazy sounds. A piezo pickup would probably add a lot to this guitar too.
I have a cheap Washburn guitar with Strat-style single coils in the neck/middle, and a humbucker in the bridge (which looks like paired single coils, strat syle). Is there anything inexpensive that I can easily swap into the neck (no routing) that will make a big difference?
Is the bridge pickup generally considered the more important position?
Trying to make *cheap* noise guitar improvements - if Im gonna invest money, I would start from scratch with a whole different guitar. This one was only 60 bucks, and isn't bad.
I have a cheap Washburn guitar with Strat-style single coils in the neck/middle, and a humbucker in the bridge (which looks like paired single coils, strat syle). Is there anything inexpensive that I can easily swap into the neck (no routing) that will make a big difference?
Is the bridge pickup generally considered the more important position?
Trying to make *cheap* noise guitar improvements - if Im gonna invest money, I would start from scratch with a whole different guitar. This one was only 60 bucks, and isn't bad.
I'd think it's more important on how you handle the guitar and your dynamics, like do you plan on gnashing the guitar strings across different objects etc....also what comes AFTER your guitar is probably going to make more of a difference. so maybe pickups won't make much difference? maybe.
K2000 wrote:I just find the Strat pickups kinda boring. Even microphonic pickups would be more interesting.
i guess it depends on what you want to do and what you mean by noise. someone like keiji haino lately just uses stock sg guitar with boss pedals and marshall stacks and he creates some of the most intense and emotional guitar noise's i've heard.
I really don't think it matters. I just tend to beat the crap out of my guitars, grinding them off metallic objects like pipes, mic stands, with high gain yields interesting sounds. I like pressing guitars against PA speakers at high gain and volumes to get weird sounds too. Generally do shit that would horrify blooos lawyer guitar players.
Telecasters. Because they are tough as fuck. And when you do fuck them up (which you better if you're going to call yourself "noise rock") they are easy and or cheap to fix. They also have the "normal guitar sound" pickup on the neck, and the "deaf by telecaster" pickup in the bridge. Actually, that's even easier to do with a deluxe. You can have a 500k or something on the neck and 1meg pots on the bridge, for really cruel night and day changes.
I would actually suggest the tele deluxe for most anything. Mostly because it looks good, it feels good, and it sounds good. A little tougher to repair/replace things than a standard style tele, though. Another weird thing to consider is that on the 72 deluxe reissue the tuners have pretty narrow slots/holes, so if you use something bigger than a .52 you have to kind of sneak the string around the tuner to get it stuck on.
Chankgeez wrote:
DWARFCRAFT: We are not fucking around this year.
go to local pawn shop. buy cheapest guitar, dont worry about action cause you'll be jammin screwdrivers and silverware under the stings anyways. randomly use different gauge strings when you string it up. find an open tuning that it atonal. kick out the jams
A piezo pickup would probably add a lot to this guitar too.
