Jimi Guitar

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I had to find out that for a fat (not that much distorted) guitar-sound it's not unimportant to have a 'fat' guitar, right?
Now, I have this anorexia jackson strat and compared to my (much cheaper) non-fender tele it sounds quite weak. I also started to hate that locked floyd rose thingies so I'd really like to buy a "real" strat, s-s-s, maple neck, vintage tremolo (or something like that), something like the ones jimi played.
but here in switzerland even the cheapest fenders are still quite expensive - for example the cheapest mexican model still costs more than 400$ at the cheapest store around.
Do you know any other brands whose strats sound quite nice but are a bit more wallet-friendly?
 
Tokai and Fernandes are both excellent copies of Strats - or at least they were in the early eighties - so if you can find one from that period, cool.

The pickups are not too bad, but you may want to upgrade to Seymour Duncans or Lindy Fralins.

Good luck,

foo
 
Jimi's tone was in his fingers and his heart, soul, and passion....
 
joanisT23: ;) ...

I now decided not to buy a new guitar. The single-coils in my jackson strat aren't that bad. I get quite a nice glassy tone out of the neck/middle combination.
the worst thing about it is the humbucker. jeeezus... I thought jackson stands for metal, ok... very distorted it sounds quite good but it's crap for a decent rock-sound.
so finally I ordered a DiMarzio Super Distortion. hope this helps a bit.
I wan't to be able to get that old-school rock-sound... not to copy jimi. I just love this guitar ('59 strat, right?). IMHO it's THE guitar... and seeing that my tele produces a fatter though less distorted sound I figured out that just the simplest "real" (concerning the shape mostly) strat would satisfy my "tonal needs" that have changed a bit since I bought that jackson.

Next step would be a new neck - fatter and just maple (but I'll keep that headplate!). metal-heads might want to crucify me for that but hey... they would already have if they knew that I bought a s-s-h guitar though I could have had a h-s-h with reversed headplate and an extra-fret for the same price. ;)

and, hey guys, let me tell you one thing: although a bloody beginner playing thru jimi's equipment would still sound like a bloody beginner, jimi himself would surely sound just a bit weaker with a samick strat thru a 15w park combo.
If good tone only came out of the player himself no one would buy that expensive stuff, right?
 
I bet Jimi would still sound pretty damn good playing a samick strat through a 15w park combo.
 
I was a Jackson factory tech for a couple of years,untill Akaii bought IMC in 1997 or '98.There are literally dozens of pickups available.On my Charvel Strat (with patent-violating headstock shape)I installed 2 Jackson vintage reissues (copies of 50s strat pickups) at neck and middle with a Jackson stack-humbucker in the bridge position.Nice axe,with coil tap and phase switch.I like it better than my '83 american standard.
As I was QCing Jacksons and Charvels at my bench,I saw all flavors of single coils and 'buckers.In general,Jackson humbuckers pickups are of the shred-metal variety (perhaps their main market) but the single coil stuff is VERY fenderish.Of course, AMIC installs Dimarzios and other popular aftermarket pickups as stock also.

Tom
 
I second Carter's last post...

And somebody slap me, but I like the sound of a Peavey for strat tones...even the cheapies....
 
tom: as I said - I think the single coils are quite good (for what I need; 'vintage' strat-like sounds).

carter: you know I didn't say jimi wouldn't sound good anymore thru a cheapo-setup... but there ARE (even some non-psychologig) reasons why people buy more expensive stuff.

gidge: I don't know what people hate about peavey anyway.
 
I think you misunderstood six, I didn't mean to imply that he wouldnt sound better through his strat and marshalls.
 
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