Basswood Strat, HSS or HSH choice

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Sid Vicious

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Ok as stated its a basswood strat, its also got a OFR and a Warmoth neck. I'm taking the JB, Duck mid and SVR neck out as its sounded horrible. I've got a PATB-2 that I would like to go back too or even one of the other PATB's in the bridge. I could go either way with the regards to the HSS or the HSH or even a HH. I don't play anything in particular but I do crank up the OD alot and model my tone as old school rock and metal, think late 60's and up a decade or so. Would like the volume to be somewhat matched. I do play clean but not much. Really only want to do this one last time so if you've got a workable combination I would really love to here it.

TIA
 
Re: Basswood Strat, HSS or HSH choice

Strat neck is my favorite electric sound clean.

Tele Bridge is my favorite electric sound dirty.

But the OFR makes things different.

IMO, first upgrade should be a brass block. Made my Kramer sound waaaaaay better.

As for pickups, you're thinking old rock and metal, I'm going to suggest HSH with a pearly gates neck model, ssl-1 middle, custom bridge. But IMO if you don't want to change the block the guitar won't sound good unless you get pickups which aren't really influenced by the sound of the guitar (think dimarzio, or EMG)
 
Re: Basswood Strat, HSS or HSH choice

I don't know if it makes a difference but this is not a copy of the Rose, it came from Germany, its the real deal. Its block is way heavier then the knock off that was in it. For now I'm not to worried about the block. I have a machine shop in my backyard and could make one pretty easy but that will be after I get the pups straightened out. The PATB seems to make a big difference and I like its tone(hell even the cheap Jap pups sounded better then the combo in it now. So, what would go good with the PATB-2 bridge in a HSH config? I just mostly play in my house solo and once in a very great while have someone over to jam with. If I need to change my tone I will play around with the amp or even turn on a different amp, different pedal etc. I'm not looking for the be all tone, that's for the pup junkies. I'm a junkie for guns and machine tooling, but not swapping out pickups. In singles I've got a SVR-1N and a SDBR-1B.

Oh the finger board is rosewood
 
Re: Basswood Strat, HSS or HSH choice

In the interest of full disclosure, I am more a Les Paul/SG HH guy, but as strats go, I love a HSS set up. The neck position strat sound is one of my favorites when it comes to single coils. HB in the bridge is the only way for me. I have a HSS strat set up with SSL-5s in the neck and middle. They are higher output true single coils and they sound great. This particular guitar is equipped with a JB in the bridge but I am a little underwhelmed by it right now. The JB is a popular choice along with the Pearly gates, from what I have read here and in other forums. I would imagine that the Distortion, Custom, and maybe even the invader would all be good bridge position choices as well.
 
Re: Basswood Strat, HSS or HSH choice

The Floyd block being heavy is one thing. The choice of metal it's made of is what's important. I have a brass Big Block in my ESP George Lynch Kamikaze III and a copper Big Block in my ESP ST203 Strat copy. The difference is amazing between the 2 with both sounding so much better than the original ones.
 
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