Re: help with strat tone
Moving the pickup closer to the strings does make it louder but it also makes it brighter. Still, mine is set pretty close. I hold the strings down at the highest fret and then adjust the bridge pickup close - less than 1/8" away from the underside of the high E string on the treble side when the high E is held down at the highest fret and about an 1/8" away on the low E side. Experiment.
I'd move the middle pickup tone control to the bridge pickup for sure. Extremely easy to do if you can solder neatly, have the experience and own the tools.
Since I started using a PCE AF1 Klon clone, I no longer use an overwound bridge pickup in my Strat. My homebuilt Strat has three Duncan Antiquity Neck pickups, all just over 6K and more or less identical.
Purchase one of the new Klon Klones and learn how to use it so that it remains "on" all the time. Like Jeff Beck. Beck uses a Klon and does have the tone control on his bridge pickup.
Moving the pickup closer to the strings does make it louder but it also makes it brighter. Still, mine is set pretty close. I hold the strings down at the highest fret and then adjust the bridge pickup close - less than 1/8" away from the underside of the high E string on the treble side when the high E is held down at the highest fret and about an 1/8" away on the low E side. Experiment.
I'd move the middle pickup tone control to the bridge pickup for sure. Extremely easy to do if you can solder neatly, have the experience and own the tools.
Since I started using a PCE AF1 Klon clone, I no longer use an overwound bridge pickup in my Strat. My homebuilt Strat has three Duncan Antiquity Neck pickups, all just over 6K and more or less identical.
Purchase one of the new Klon Klones and learn how to use it so that it remains "on" all the time. Like Jeff Beck. Beck uses a Klon and does have the tone control on his bridge pickup.
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