Recent content by aerial7

I have 3 Seymour Duncan humbuckers, a 5-way superswitch, and two push-pull volume pots in a Strat. (There's actually a 3rd pot that is the volume for my piezo bridge.) Any ideas how to wire this up in ways that are proven to be useful? I'm not interested in splits (i.e,. the usual bridge +...

First candidate is an American Std Strat with a maple neck and a (newly-installed) piezo bridge. Second candidate is a Squier "heavy metal" strat with a...er, um....non-maple neck. Both only have two free openings for knobs (the 3rd on the Am Strat is the vol for the piezo bridge), and I...

I'm guessing there's zero effect on tone, so do you just go for aesthetics and align them perpendicular or parallel to the strings? Or just leave 'em wherever they wind up as you adjust them?

'92 American Strat with maple neck, and I just can't seem to get this thing to rock. Looking for classic, tasteful distortion (think Heart / Benatar / maybe Donnas) as well as a little bit of the current harder sound occasionally (think P.O.D.). I don't want any of that "quack" or "glass", but...