Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 6:19 am Post subject: Standard Strat Pickups
I bought an American Series Strat a few years ago and could never really get 'into' the stock pickups. As I am based in a flat I use a POD and am quite close to this and my mixer - causing serious hum. In addition I found the sound to be too thin for my playing style and this caused me to overplay to try and compensate.
Recently I replaced all pickups with Seymour Duncan Duckbuckers and could not believe the difference, the guitar has really come to life! The pickups seem so much more musical to me. From one amp (POD) setting I am now able to get several useable sounds just by changing the tone and volume settings. Now I just can't put that guitar down!
Anyone else tried these pickups or similar, like vintage rails?
Joined: 12 Mar 2005 Posts: 214 Location: Hong Kong
Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 9:53 am Post subject:
Yeah, I'm using a lot of computer software these days and need to sit in front of a monitor (Guitar Rig, Pro Tools etc).
I'm also using a US Strat (Roadhouse) and I replaced the Texas PUP's with Kinmans - these are simply the quietest single coil strat pickup's around - others here may, or will, disagree
Thanks for the reco on the Seymour Duncan.
However, I'm finding the US Strats are pretty average quality and I'm on the look out for a good JAPANESE Stat or Tokai. Once I get one of those, I'm thinking of putting in a humbucker type pick up in my current US strat... see what happens.
I'd love one of those Suhrs that Guthrie plays, but lets face it - is a guitar really worth that much money? Damn, I remember paying an arm and a leg for a PRS back in 1989!
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Joined: 12 Mar 2005 Posts: 214 Location: Hong Kong
Posted: Tue May 10, 2005 10:25 am Post subject:
Hmmm... I wonder if our preferences relate to the first guitars we owned. I had a Maton Firebird (a really gothic black beast made in Aus), and then progressed up to a Japanese Squire, then PRS (now all long sold)...
Or perhaps it comes back to our first guitar heros? Being breast-fed on Beck, Clapton, Hendrix, Blackmore and Knopfler, I tend to favour the cleaner and richer single coil sounds (however, what about those lovely EVH humbucker tones?).
I went through a phase where I was really looking for versatility in my gear. I think some of the modern guitars try and fill that role.
Speaking of this intruguing subject, have any of you guys seen/played/heard the Line 6 Variax guitars w/ the Workbench software?
The concept/implementation is quite interesting, however I played a top of the line Variax and the feel of the neck really turned me off - otherwise I would really consider it, especially for a home PC recording environment. Maybe the Variax's I played at the music shop weren't setup properly (seems to be one of my common complaints of the music shops here in Hong Kong).
Would like to hear comments on the whole Variax "25 guitars in a box" concept.
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