Recent content by Mr.Stratocaster

Hello! There are Fender®/Schaller® Vintage “F” Style Tuning Machines installed on my strat. Is it possible to find locking tuners (I prefer Schaller, staggered) which will fit existing holes on my headstock without the need to drill new holes ? Or at least I need tuners which will cover existing...

Hello! Please anyone help me with pickup selection for my new guitar! The guitar is Warmoth vintage strat copy. Body is Northern Hard Ash (heavy wood), neck is maple and fingerboard is scalloped maple. Vintage tremolo. I've read that Northern Hard Ash is very bright sounding wood. Maple is...

Hello!!! I have a strat with YJM pickup in the neck. I really like the way it sounds on solos, just great! I would like to find bridge pickup which will work well with YJM in the neck. 1. I need pickup which will be almost the same volume as YJM. 2. I will use bridge pickup for heavy riffs, and...

Hi! My HS-3 has very high level of microphonic feedback, even on low volumes it starts to squeal like crazy sometimes :( I don't know why. I have YJM on this guitar too. It's almost the same pickup as HS-3, but has much lower microphonics... Does it mean that my HS-3 is bad or damaged ? Or is it...

Hi everyone! Does anyone tried these DI boxes with speaker simulation ? 1. Hughes & Kettner Red Box Classic (active) 2. Hughes & Kettner Red Box Pro (passive) 3. Behringer Ultra-G (active) I would like to buy one of these three but I haven't heard any of them so I can't decide :( I just want...

Hello everyone! I would like to buy Fender Highway 1 strat with oversized 70's style headstock. I have found that newer 2006 models do have this feature, but some of the older 2003 models also have oversized headstock. I want to know any differences between 2003 and 2006 models! Is there any...

Hello! I would like to know........is there any difference in noise level of EMG and SD LiveWire actives ? My EMGs under high gain produce some hiss (but there is no 60 Hz hum actually because they are hum-cancelling), and I think the hiss comes from the preamp. I've seen tech specs of EMG-SA...

Hello! Sorry for another similar thread, but I think my previous thread "Live Wires - Classic or Hot ?" has incorrect title, that's my mistake. Sorry. Actually I wan't to know anybody's experience in getting Malmsteen-style of sound using EMG-SA, EMG-S, SD LiveWire Classic, SD LiveWire Hot...

Hello everyone! I would like to buy active pickups, but first I'd like to understand which ones will give me the sound I need. Could please anyone help me to make a selection ? Thanks in advance... My guitar is strat-style with poplar body, maple neck and rosewood fretboard, kahler tremolo...