The great single pickup Sunday

This had been my playing set up today, I really enjoyed the solitary Duncan Full Shred in my Ibanez RG2610. People would whine; how useful can a single pickup be but Alan Holdsworth proved everyone wrong. No, I'm not trying to emulate the guitar wizard (i do borrow some of his ideas...) but it's a challenge to myself- how can I be commanding, working within certain limitations? This led me to focus on picking/ fretting techniques as well as utilizing the guitar's volume control.

As you can see, I still adopt a minimalist approach by only having the Ibanez TS7 in between the guitar & amp. Again, it's not about the JVM's inadequacy distortion-wise, I just play better with increased drive saturation.