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ryan summit wrote:

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.

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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.

Pickup questions:

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.

K2000 wrote:Pickup questions:

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.

I just find the Strat pickups kinda boring. Even microphonic pickups would be more interesting.

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.

They're guitar pickups, frankly I've never heard a one that made me jump for joy at its grandeur over other ones.

If you don't like the guitar, that's one thing, but dumping good money after bad probably won't help.

For this type of music like you're linking, literally anything will do. It's about what and how you play, not what it's on.

Single coils will get you there more easily, but I wouldn't worry about it much and instead focus on making said noise.

I like hollows and shortscales (Casino, Duo-Sonic)

Also student guitars and cheapos.

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.

fiddelerselbow wrote:Generally do shit that would horrify blooos lawyer guitar players.

Live the dream.

wafl wrote:

fiddelerselbow wrote:Generally do shit that would horrify blooos lawyer guitar players.

Live the dream.

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.

I could get by with nearly anything but I prefer using a Moog E1. Infinite sustain is addictive.

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