American Elite Strat SSH, the N4's gotta go,

[sjduff]

Bought this guitar cause I love the way it plays/feels. The Fender gen4 noiseless in the neck and middle gotta go.
Was wondering, with this guitars compound radius neck, and I use 9's, would I be better off with the vintage flats or custom flats
in the neck and middle as opposed to a staggered pole?

Looking for more chime and quack, clarity, string to string and pup to pup balance.

Thank you,

Duff

 

[Mincer]

Re: American Elite Strat SSH, the N4's gotta go,

I'd use flats if you have the choice. Depending on what tone you want, you can use either vintage or higher output. An SSL-2/SSL-2/SSL-6 is a solid choice.

 

[Blille]

Re: American Elite Strat SSH, the N4's gotta go,

Couldn’t agree more. They have an amazing neck but those pickups do have to go. I would only go staggered for 7.25 radius personally. Anything else, flat.

 

[Bowtomecha]

Re: American Elite Strat SSH, the N4's gotta go,

I thought you meant Nuno Bettencourt’s N4 Lol. I was like dude naw.

 

[PFDarkside]

Re: American Elite Strat SSH, the N4's gotta go,

I actually think the N4s sound decent. I was planning on replacing them, but they perform at least as good as Dimarzios to me.

If you are going to vintage style pickups, I completely understand though. I’d go for flats with the compound radius of the Elite necks.

 

[Blille]

Re: American Elite Strat SSH, the N4's gotta go,

I actually think the N4s sound decent. I was planning on replacing them, but they perform at least as good as Dimarzios to me.

Funny thing is that maybe if I listened to you playing I would have agreed. But the thing that was strange to me was how they responded as I played. I get a similar feeling with Laces but significantly less than with the N4s.

 

[PFDarkside]

Re: American Elite Strat SSH, the N4's gotta go,

Funny thing is that maybe if I listened to you playing I would have agreed. But the thing that was strange to me was how they responded as I played. I get a similar feeling with Laces but significantly less than with the N4s.

I understand.... I’ve hated Laces but it’s dialed back enough that maybe I don’t mind. Also, this guitar is my jack of all trades guitar, I prefer all the traditional single loaded ones, but not the hum when I want quiet. We’ll see, I was considering just going to HSH Fluence on it for something completely different.

 

[EC Strat]

Re: American Elite Strat SSH, the N4's gotta go,

I understand.... I’ve hated Laces but it’s dialed back enough that maybe I don’t mind. Also, this guitar is my jack of all trades guitar, I prefer all the traditional single loaded ones, but not the hum when I want quiet. We’ll see, I was considering just going to HSH Fluence on it for something completely different.

I run a set of classic stacks + 4 in my Strat and they are awesome IMO. very vintage sounding extremely versatile and great chimey top end with lots of quack in tap And they’re Noiseless

 

[GuitarStv]

Re: American Elite Strat SSH, the N4's gotta go,

An SSL-2/SSL-2/SSL-6 is a solid choice.

+1


If you don't like the SSL-2s, I don't think you like the way single coils sound.

 

[Jacew]

Re: American Elite Strat SSH, the N4's gotta go,

+1


If you don't like the SSL-2s, I don't think you like the way single coils sound.

Well. They are quite heavy on the bass compared most other single coils.