beautiful ax man, but I'm gonna have to say that that's not really a Tele. I mean, I know it says Fender on the headstock and it's shaped like a Tele but it has a set neck and carved maple top and humbuckers. That guitar is gonna be a lot more like a paul than a tele.I always hated teles too. But I bought a MIK HSS Tele with Humbuckers and it changed my mind. Fender Jags and Mustangs and MusicMasters are cool too. Its all in the setup too. I go over each guitar and set it up to my taiste.
, but i don't use it nearly as much as my parker. that being said, clearly i prefer humbuckers over single coils majority the time (except for funk, because that neck pickup sounds much better than a neck hum for that style). but saying it feels small and tinny? what the hell does that even mean? how can a guitar feel tinny? like, the sound? my strat is pretty damn heavy; about as heavy as my brothers les paul. the necks are obviously different, with the LP having the flat neck (which i can't stand whatsoever) and the strat having the rounded neck, which is much more comfortable to play. oh god greg, everytime you're in a god damn topic it's a laugh riot lol
a strat playing powerchords through a maxed out marshall sounds cool, yeah i guess, but humbuckers sound 10x better. i love my strat and all, and clearly the '89 strat+ is the best strat that was ever created by fender
i like humbuckers, but i'm not a fan of gibsons...i'm into strat-shaped humbucker guitars moreso than LP's and SG's.
oh and also dude, you bought a 2000s squier strat, of course it's going to sound and play like shit. it's a god damn squier. it's a god damn squier from when squiers sucked 100x more than they do now because fender realized they had to up their cheap game to even compete with epiphone.
Look in my sig and go to my reverbnation page for an example of what I'm talking about. Play the song "Wal-Mart at Midnight" and/or "I Can't Sleep". Those songs are my mexistrat through a JCM800. I didn't use the SG on those. I don't think the guitars sound high-pitched or twangy on those songs, but maybe I'm just used to it. As for standard palm mutes, a single coil obviously won't give you a huge meaty chugga-chugga. It's more of an articulate chicka-chicka, but it still sounds good. You can get it pretty meaty if you want by just altering your hand position.
Yeah sometimes you just have to have humbuckers. I just sold a "fat strat" style Strat not too long ago. It was true USA Strat with a Seymour Duncan humbucker in the bridge. Pro set-up, maple neck, all that shit. I'm not sure on the year, but I think it was early 90's. A guy I know left it with me cuz I loaned him some money. He didn't pay me back by the agreed upon date, so I sold it. Anyway, I hated that guitar. I never even used it. I didn't like the way it played or the sound of it. It sounded fat and muddy. I didn't like it at all.
Yeah. That's what I'm talking about. I think a strat rhythm track coupled with something else is a nice combination for some variety in tones. To me, that's all they're good for.
