Any reason why maple neck + flody rose + HSS not a popular option?

[IMENATOR]

Does it become too thin for single coils? Does it become too expensive?

For some reason I have only seen maple neck + floyd rose + HH (charvel, jackson, etc.) but I was wondering why the HSS configuration is not popular for that neck and bridge combination.


Thanks in advance to everyone!!!!!

 

[Ozone]

Re: Any reason why maple neck + flody rose + HSS not a popular option?

It's more efficient for companies to make products that will please larger amounts of people. But I wouldn't say that it's not popular. I'm sure there are tons of guitars w/maple neck+floyd+hss. I just can't think of anything except the Adrian Smith sig.... I'm pretty sure ESP makes a couple guitars like that though

 

[Maynardo]

Re: Any reason why maple neck + flody rose + HSS not a popular option?

Personally I dont like to mix single coils and HBs 'cause of the pots, singles don't sound good with 500ks and HB don't sound good with 250k.

Also I hate midle pickups they bother my picking when I strum. But hey that's just me

 

[jeremy]

Re: Any reason why maple neck + flody rose + HSS not a popular option?

i had a hss floyd strat with a maple neck that was my main guitar from like 94/5? till the early 2000's. it was a mij hrr 50's model in purple fotoflame yeah baby

came stock with a paf pro bridge pup but i loaded it up with emg sv/sv/81 with a pa2 and spc as soon as i got it. kicked so much ass. with everything full up the thing had so much output i could overdrive the front end of a hiwatt into saturation

 

[jmh151]

I have a HSS Jackson Soloist, and wish it was HH- so I put a lil 59 in the neck. It's hard to get singles that match up with a humbucker bridge

 

[Jessie's ghost]

Re: Any reason why maple neck + flody rose + HSS not a popular option?

It's hard to get singles that match up with a humbucker bridge

Not when they're Hot Rails. :14:

 

[ItsaBass]

Re: Any reason why maple neck + flody rose + HSS not a popular option?

They exist, but it does seem that most shredder guitars lean toward the traditional neck/fingerboard woods, such as rosewood and ebony.

 

[bruce bennett]

Re: Any reason why maple neck + flody rose + HSS not a popular option?

many of my old Charvels for the late 70s were HSS with FR trems and maple necks.

maybe its just too "old school" for todays kids?

 

[Vengeance]

Re: Any reason why maple neck + flody rose + HSS not a popular option?

many of my old Charvels for the late 70s were HSS with FR trems and maple necks.

maybe its just too "old school" for todays kids?

That is what I'm thinking but it's one of my all time favorite configurations.

 

[Ashurbanipal]

Re: Any reason why maple neck + flody rose + HSS not a popular option?

Hmm, I overwhelmingly prefer HSS. I used to play HH but rarely used the full humbucker.

I don't think, with the amount of options available today, that you wouldn't find a true single coil that doesn't balance out with a humbucker, unless you're using something stupid hot in the bridge .

In my HSS, I've got SSL2s and a 59/C, and there's no issues in output going from the singles to the bucker. I like to use the mix positions quite a bit (neck + bridge; all on) and the bucker is never domineering.

 

[esandes]

Re: Any reason why maple neck + flody rose + HSS not a popular option?

i honestly can't notice any tonal differences between a maple or rosewood fretboard. it's not like the string actually touches that 1/4" thick piece of wood anyhow.

 

[Chickenwings]

Re: Any reason why maple neck + flody rose + HSS not a popular option?

i honestly can't notice any tonal differences between a maple or rosewood fretboard. it's not like the string actually touches that 1/4" thick piece of wood anyhow.

the string doesn't touch the body wood on a strat, or a les paul, any floyd equipped guitar or pretty much any electric axe that is not string thu design. Does that mean body wood doesnt affect tone too?

To the Op: Perhaps some of the reason you dont see too many axes with the combination you are talking about is cos Floyds tend to brighten/thin a lot of axes, so maple, with ss and a flloyd is juts a little too thin for many ppl's taste perhaps.

 

[DrNewcenstein]

Re: Any reason why maple neck + flody rose + HSS not a popular option?

And because despite their best efforts, no pickup maker can do a single that is loud enough to match the output of a humbucker that would generally be used with a Floyd, yet gets that classic Strat single-coil tone.

 

[verbotenco]

Re: Any reason why maple neck + flody rose + HSS not a popular option?

Funny that you think that, cause many of Jackon's popular lines like Soloist, Fusion, Dinky, Stealth in the 90s come with maple neck and HSS.

 

[DrNewcenstein]

Re: Any reason why maple neck + flody rose + HSS not a popular option?

They tried. The Gain Boost was primarily for the singles, as well as using lower-output humbuckers (J50) so it was easier to match the volume, but in all honesty, it takes more external gear to match singles to hotter humbuckers (gain boosters, EQ set to boost, etc).

 

[The Guitar]

Re: Any reason why maple neck + flody rose + HSS not a popular option?

I've got a Mim squire with Floyd special II and maple board. As for the middle pickup, I lower those so they still get decent volume, but are out of the way of picking. It sounds pretty good with the stock pups, and brighter sounding than my rosewood Fender prodigy. The neat thing is the Floyd route has a slight recess so it can warbble like the 2 point strat bridges.

 

[Coma]

Re: Any reason why maple neck + flody rose + HSS not a popular option?

I've got a Larrivee RS4 (superstrat) with a maple neck (neck-through), Floyd Rose and HSS config. Works just fine and dandy, one of the most versatile guitars I've played.

 

[DrNewcenstein]

Re: Any reason why maple neck + flody rose + HSS not a popular option?

What pickups?

 

[Aceman]

Re: Any reason why maple neck + flody rose + HSS not a popular option?

Because the 80's are over.

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[IMENATOR]

Re: Any reason why maple neck + flody rose + HSS not a popular option?

And because despite their best efforts, no pickup maker can do a single that is loud enough to match the output of a humbucker that would generally be used with a Floyd, yet gets that classic Strat single-coil tone.

I recently tried STK-S6 in the neck with a full JB(no tone pot for the JB since I heard 250K not so good for HBs ). Output is well balanced and I got a very decent quack from Neck+Middle. Middle is a stock ceramic single coil so geting an A5 ssl-1 should sound sweet.