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Yeeeah the day's finally here, I've actually MODIFIED A STRAT!! Where's my club jacket?
My friend Jared had some authentic 60's Strat pickups laying around, so I put one in the neck and one in the middle, then bought a Hot Rails for the bridge.
Lemme say...WOW. The neck get a smoothe bluesy solo tone, the middle is doing the trebly/spanky sound i used to get out of the bridge on my old pups (and was afraid of sacrificing for the sake of a humbucker) and the Hot Rails is.....exactly what I want in a pickup. That sounds kind of silly but I was playing that thing clean, distorted, whatever, and it always sounded right. Of course it shined with my DS-1 engaged, shooting out some run-of-the-mill hardcore riffs in my friend's garage but...wow.
What amazed me most was that my Strat still sounds like MY STRAT -- i thought the entire tone would be different but it's just tweaked enough that I love it again.
So here's my question: Did I wire this thing right? I'm almost 100% sure i did but just to be certain, here's how it's done:
1- definitely Hot Rails sounding
2- Fuzzy bass from Hot Rails, twang from mid, half the output (???)
3- Twaaaaang
4- Twang and smoothe
5- Smooooothe...haha
I'm only concerned about the second possition, it seems like it COULD be out of phase but i've never done this before...
-X
My friend Jared had some authentic 60's Strat pickups laying around, so I put one in the neck and one in the middle, then bought a Hot Rails for the bridge.
Lemme say...WOW. The neck get a smoothe bluesy solo tone, the middle is doing the trebly/spanky sound i used to get out of the bridge on my old pups (and was afraid of sacrificing for the sake of a humbucker) and the Hot Rails is.....exactly what I want in a pickup. That sounds kind of silly but I was playing that thing clean, distorted, whatever, and it always sounded right. Of course it shined with my DS-1 engaged, shooting out some run-of-the-mill hardcore riffs in my friend's garage but...wow.
What amazed me most was that my Strat still sounds like MY STRAT -- i thought the entire tone would be different but it's just tweaked enough that I love it again.
So here's my question: Did I wire this thing right? I'm almost 100% sure i did but just to be certain, here's how it's done:
1- definitely Hot Rails sounding
2- Fuzzy bass from Hot Rails, twang from mid, half the output (???)
3- Twaaaaang
4- Twang and smoothe
5- Smooooothe...haha
I'm only concerned about the second possition, it seems like it COULD be out of phase but i've never done this before...
-X
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