the fender stratocaster is perfect.

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perfect strat?

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SHEPPARDB. said:
Put a S.D. hotrail in the bridge pos.You wont be sorry.
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Thanks for the tip! I've got a Little 59 sitting around at home that i might drop in there to see how it goes. i found the lil59 useless in my Tele bridge position, but it might work in the strat.


cheers,
wade
 
Track Rat said:
Then there's hollow bodies..............
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Mmmm...hollowbodies, my current addiction.

I've also got a Lake Placid Blue MIM strat refit with Kinmans. Love it.
 

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sweetpeee said:
Gibson guitars are one trick ponies and one trick is all the horse can do. Don’t get me wrong, some Gibson’s are great sounding but they only have that one sound. You can’t make a Gibson sound like a strat but you can make a strat sound like Gibson.

You can make a strat sound like a Les Paul?? Are we talking about a stock strat? If not, if we are talking about a strat with a double coil pickup in the bridge posistion, what are your feelings about coil taps on both pickups of a Les Paul? Jimmy Page gets an awful lot of tones in his Les Paul that way...


J.P.
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my STOCK lonestar strat came with a humbucker bridge and two texas specials, neck and middle. this guitar is about as versatile as they come. I don't see a les paul coming close to the tonal range but if you like the sound of the lp, then thats great. I like it for certain things too
 
Actually, I believe that the Jazzmaster is the Best Guitar too, despite a couple of personality issues (The guitar I mean, not me. Well, me too.).


If I could only buy a Squier version of it for $150 I'd be in heaven. I'd have half a dozen with different pickups....
 
hilarypaprocki said:
Actually, I believe that the Jazzmaster is the Best Guitar too, despite a couple of personality issues (The guitar I mean, not me. Well, me too.).


If I could only buy a Squier version of it for $150 I'd be in heaven. I'd have half a dozen with different pickups....
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I can't afford too, so I got a Japanese Mustang re-issue (the latest one) for $700 (still hanging on my credit card). I wouldn't say it's the same guitar, but close enough. And I'm happy with the quality. I should mention that I went through several of these Mustangs and there's lots of shit there... I mean they are very different... you really have to sit down and play 'em.
I've also tried Jaguar HH. Absolutely horrible pickups! Dullest sound ever.
 
lp

dont forget that page also had a black les paul custom in his early years ...... it was stolen in canada ..... and never seen again :( ..... also page is a collector of vintage strat's :cool:
 
fishkarma said:
Thats funny considering you are called ESPskully. I would of guessed you'd use an esp?
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ehthp hath a lttle lithp- thumtymth it cumth outh :)
 
I've yet to play a Strat I would lay down $$$ for.

Gibson necks MUCH FASTER IMHO.
 
Really? Don't get me wrong I love les pauls but the gibson necks are way fatter making it harder to play fast in my opinion and many other shredders will say the same thing.

Then again if you put in the time it shouldn't make a difference what neck your using
(Marty Freidman just uses what's at hand)
 
I just got done jamming again, with my new-used American flag TELECASTER copy made in china for an Indiana company... :cool:

the TELE guitar plug sticking out the edge of the body of the tele, is really strange?

... just another note why the Stratocaster is the perfect guitar. :D

Leo and crew invented the Stratocaster front "bullet plug/jack" per their feedback from the Tele players as I recall from a reading or someone's post.

p.s. I forgot how twangy bright these tele's are! geez... add a frkn bright solid state Peavy and a cheesy RP crap pedal...and I have all kinds of tin can-brittle sharp razor ear bleed guitar tones... wow...

it was fun jamming though, I think it was WILD THING, or was it Weezer's Beverly Hills, hmm? maybe those 3 chords were the Stones Get Off My Cloud..wait no maybe Deringer's Hang on Sloopy...nah...probably just a jam. :D
 
Meh

Strats are really nice, I just got an American HSS strat, and its great. But they cant to everything. I also have a Les Paul, and they compliment eachother well; two very different sounds.
 
For me, the Tele is perfect, and the Strat has a couple of issues. One is, let me use just the bridge and neck pickups. Another is tone control on the bridge pickup, and finally, move that volume knob so it's further from the strings!
 
far left= neck
far right= bridge
middle= middle pickup
between mid and neck =combo of both
between mid and bridge= combo of both

What do you mean that you cant use just one or the other?
the volume is great where it is because it can be easily reached for swells!
 
Well, y'know, it's there so you can wrap your pinkie around it and mess with it while you play.

I say there's altogether too many knobs on the guitar and when I debug mine I just leave that pot off and wire a more ordinary volume and tone ensemble.
 
I'm not a Fender strat fan myself but they do look cool and sound cool for certain types of music. Personally the neck radius is to small. I like my action low and I find they fret out easy past the 15 fret when the action is low. I like my guitar to have a double coil at the bridge. I'm sorry but I can hear a big difference with hi gain. Single coils are thin sounding and noisy with hi gain but do serve there purpose. :)
 
I'm a Jazzmaster man, but I must admit that it's such a bright jangly tone that it doesn't distort well at all. I was thinking about asking the guy at the guitar store what I could do about that; I used to play through a Kramer that was a piece of crap in a lot of ways but it sounded perfect through an overdrive pedal. The Jazzmaster sounds awesome clean but it's too harsh overdriven.

From a playability's sake, the JM's neck is best I've ever felt.
 
I kinda hate threads like this, so I'll answer the question without reading other posts :)

I like the shape, but like a "super strat" with a bridge humbucker... And that means more than a 5-way switch...

I think one of the examples of a "perfected strat" is the Brian May guitar :D

ok, you disagree. it's not even a strat copy. or is it? a better copy!

sue me :D
 
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