What Single Coil bridge pup do you use in your Strat?

[gripweed]

Re: What Single Coil bridge pup do you use in your Strat?

there are several combinations I haven't tried, but I'm at least convinced of this:
the bridge should be hotter than the other two pickups, whether it's 7K, 9K, or more
personally, I need tone on the bridge, too, so I bridge the mid tone pot to the bridge, but some people just wire the mid pot to the bridge by itself

FWIW, this is kinda like how the current AS strats are ... I've read the bridge is 7K (although I haven't measuered mine), and the mid pot is wired "mid/ bridge master tone"

That to me is the most apparent design flaw of the Strat -- no tone control for the bridge pickup.

[FretFire]

Re: What Single Coil bridge pup do you use in your Strat?

You could always use one regular pot and one concentric pot for your tone controls, and have 3 knobs in the space for 2...

[brisk]

Re: What Single Coil bridge pup do you use in your Strat?

I use SSL-3 in bridge with SSL2's in neck and middle. what a great combo!

[Kelsey]

Re: What Single Coil bridge pup do you use in your Strat?

Twangbanger in one and Texas Special in the other, both with bottom tone pot wired to the bridge position (middle wide open). They both sound good, but fall short of any of my Tele bridge pickups.

[Stratcat]

Re: What Single Coil bridge pup do you use in your Strat?

That to me is the most apparent design flaw of the Strat -- no tone control for the bridge pickup.

FWIW, most all of the new Fender American series and Deluxe Strats have a tone control for the bridge pup.

[Martian]

Re: What Single Coil bridge pup do you use in your Strat?

I have two Strats: Kinman SCn in one, Fender CS 54 in the other.

[rspst14]

Re: What Single Coil bridge pup do you use in your Strat?

I have a Lace 6k Hot Gold in the bridge of my Warmoth Strat. Regardless of what you think of Lace pickups, I highly recommend this one if you want a vintage Strat tone without the hum. It matches up nicely with the Bill Lawrence 280S in the middle and the Kinman AVN-62 in the neck.

Ryan

[Luke Duke]

Re: What Single Coil bridge pup do you use in your Strat?

there are several combinations I haven't tried, but I'm at least convinced of this:
the bridge should be hotter than the other two pickups, whether it's 7K, 9K, or more

personally, I need tone on the bridge, too, so I bridge the mid tone pot to the bridge, but some people just wire the mid pot to the bridge by itself

FWIW, this is kinda like how the current AS strats are ... I've read the bridge is 7K (although I haven't measured mine), and the mid pot is wired "mid/ bridge master tone"

I'm with Curly here. I wired mine with the second tone control on the bridge. I was planning on buying a blend pot from Lew but just didn't want to lose the ability to have the bridge pup's tone down with the middle pups up.

Luke

[Young Angus]

Re: What Single Coil bridge pup do you use in your Strat?

Ive just recently convinced myself to keep my dimarzio virtual vintage solo bridge single in my strat, its no good for outright clean by itself but under high gain it has grown on me so much as my playing has improved and its tone is really phenomenal...i found myself just playing it for all my high gain stuff instead of my les paul for ages!

Its just got amazing tone and still somehow stays thick...could be something to do with the amazing guitar its in though

[Armotron]

Re: What Single Coil bridge pup do you use in your Strat?

A Lindy Fralin Steel Pole 43, awesome pickup.