Turnstyle Switch

[sixstringsamurai]

The EBGC is nice, but gimme a single HB and a volume knob.
I would spend all my time twiddling knobs instead of playing :doh:

 

[line6man]

Turning "one trick pony" guitars into the "one guitar does it all" approach is something that has been attempted exponentially for many decades now.

The only thing even remotely close to accomplishing this is the Variax James Tyler guitars.

No guitar comprised of purely traditional guitar partes (ie; no modelling technology) can come as close.

You can achieve a wide variety of useful tones in a multiplicity of applications, but you are still limited to subjective ingredients, ie; Solid body vs Hollow body, high output pickus vs low output pickups, true single coils vs stacked single coils, scale length, string gauge, and we haven't even gotten into amp selection and tone stack setup.

Heck, even my "5 pickup Strat" idea, as flexible as it may seem, is still limited in comparison to the imaginable possibilities of available electric guitar sounds.

Ideally, it does take a plethora of guitars to achieve truly a authentic plethora of guitar sounds, and more often than not, you'll find a smaller number of those options that truly work for your given guitar tone proclivities.

Best counsel I can advise, pick the most commonly used tones that you use consistently, exploit those options, and maybe a few more "occasional" option to service the rare exceptions.

It seems that most players go through this phase, where they want thirteen knobs and seventy-six switches, to get as many options as possible. At the end of the day, the result is usually the same. Twelve settings that sound identical. Thirty-seven that are useless. Twenty-one that will rarely be used. Five that suddenly kill all the sound. And three that you will use. (Or whatever other random numbers. :blob7 Most will go back to simpler schemes, and favor quality of quantity. That's why these wild switching schemes don't catch on. They are a bit of a novelty, and don't get very much love from serious players.

 

[TonyFlyingSquirrel]

Turning "one trick pony" guitars into the "one guitar does it all" approach is something that has been attempted exponentially for many decades now.

The only thing even remotely close to accomplishing this is the Variax James Tyler guitars.

No guitar comprised of purely traditional guitar partes (ie; no modelling technology) can come as close.

You can achieve a wide variety of useful tones in a multiplicity of applications, but you are still limited to subjective ingredients, ie; Solid body vs Hollow body, high output pickus vs low output pickups, true single coils vs stacked single coils, scale length, string gauge, and we haven't even gotten into amp selection and tone stack setup.

Heck, even my "5 pickup Strat" idea, as flexible as it may seem, is still limited in comparison to the imaginable possibilities of available electric guitar sounds.

Ideally, it does take a plethora of guitars to achieve truly a authentic plethora of guitar sounds, and more often than not, you'll find a smaller number of those options that truly work for your given guitar tone proclivities.

Best counsel I can advise, pick the most commonly used tones that you use consistently, exploit those options, and maybe a few more "occasional" option to service the rare exceptions.

It seems that most players go through this phase, where they want thirteen knobs and seventy-six switches, to get as many options as possible. At the end of the day, the result is usually the same. Twelve settings that sound identical. Thirty-seven that are useless. Twenty-one that will rarely be used. Five that suddenly kill all the sound. And three that you will use. (Or whatever other random numbers. :blob7 Most will go back to simpler schemes, and favor quality of quantity. That's why these wild switching schemes don't catch on. They are a bit of a novelty, and don't get very much love from serious players.

So true, and at the end of all of that, I'm back to the simplicity of a volume knob, a 3 way LP type toggle, and the truth.  Same on the tele. I have a split on the bridge hum bucker, and it stays there, I rarely use that guitar with the bridge in full on humbucker mode.  I have a phase in the push/pull tone that rarely gets used also.  I'm debating on going for a GFS NeoVin Hard Vintage & perhaps put this custom humbucker into another project.

 

[Cagey]

It seems that most players go through this phase, where they want thirteen knobs and seventy-six switches, to get as many options as possible. At the end of the day, the result is usually the same. Twelve settings that sound identical. Thirty-seven that are useless. Twenty-one that will rarely be used. Five that suddenly kill all the sound. And three that you will use. (Or whatever other random numbers. :blob7 Most will go back to simpler schemes, and favor quality of quantity. That's why these wild switching schemes don't catch on. They are a bit of a novelty, and don't get very much love from serious players.

Spot on. The only thing I might add is the realization most come to who do such things that the overly-complex schemes are not practical in performance situations. Consider where one might have a scant fraction of a second to change settings going from chord to chord or whatever, and you're faced with a space shuttle dashboard fulla controls. You just don't have time to diddle and twiddle all those knobs/switches/levers/etc. to get from one sound to the next.

 

[bagman67]

And to supplement Cagey's response, for those who point at Steve Morse, I say:  STEVE MORSE IS A BIZARRE OUTLIER.  And he's simplified his axes, too.

 

[Hbom]

$325.00 !
Buy a used MIM tele. Set it in the corner next to your amp. Pick it up when you really want that Tele sound.
:rock-on:

 

[mayfly]

$325.00 !
Buy a used MIM tele. Set it in the corner next to your amp. Pick it up when you really want that Tele sound.
:rock-on:

Now that's some sound advice!