Duncan JB or Rio Grande BBQ for Fat Strat?

papersoul

papersoul

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Hi guys,

YOU ALL ROCK! Thanks to you all, I am finally getting my strats set up to my liking and my Tele!

Finally, I want to hot rod my 1983 SQ Strat. I love this thing but my tech is routing it out for a bridge humbucker and I want two of the best matching middle and neck singles, noiseless is fine.

I was thinking Rio Grande BBQ and two Rio singles or....Duncan noiseless singles.....
Duncan JB and maybe two Duncan Hot Stack Plus pickups.
Duncan Screamin Demon?
Full Shred?
PATB-3? :)

Rock, hard rock, grunge and some metal.....
Amps are Bogner Shiva, PWE and Mesa Dual Rec.

Thanks!
 
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Re: Duncan JB or Rio Grande BBQ for Fat Strat?

Looks like I may go the vintage meets modern route - Duncan 59/Custom
 
Re: Duncan JB or Rio Grande BBQ for Fat Strat?

yeah, go trembucker. If you dont go 59/custom, Id go BBQ. Well, depending what you play and what you play thru..
 
Re: Duncan JB or Rio Grande BBQ for Fat Strat?

BloodRose said:
yeah, go trembucker. If you dont go 59/custom, Id go BBQ. Well, depending what you play and what you play thru..
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Don't you think the 59/Custom could be too bright in a strat? I may keep it with Dimarzio Rails. I mean I already have a ton of humbucking guitars.
 
Re: Duncan JB or Rio Grande BBQ for Fat Strat?

JB. done deal. if you have a particularly bright Strat and want it fat, then maybe a PG or a CC.

if you were first considering a JB, I don't think the 59/C would be too bright. it 'feels' a little more bright an open than one might expect. once again it depends on your definition of 'fat strat'. some find the 59/C too jangly, and I can see that, but I'm a huge JB fan and still like the 59/C more than I expected.

also, after going through many rail pups in my Strat over many, many years, it's been my experience that there is no substitute for a real humbucker in the bridge position. there's a little more wiggle room in the neck/middle, depending on the pup model.
 
Re: Duncan JB or Rio Grande BBQ for Fat Strat?

darthphineas said:
JB. done deal. if you have a particularly bright Strat and want it fat, then maybe a PG or a CC.

if you were first considering a JB, I don't think the 59/C would be too bright. it 'feels' a little more bright an open than one might expect. once again it depends on your definition of 'fat strat'. some find the 59/C too jangly, and I can see that, but I'm a huge JB fan and still like the 59/C more than I expected.

also, after going through many rail pups in my Strat over many, many years, it's been my experience that there is no substitute for a real humbucker in the bridge position. there's a little more wiggle room in the neck/middle, depending on the pup model.
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My strat is naturally warm and full! I decided I don't want my strat to sound like all my other guitars with a beefy humbucker.
I am not a huge fan of rail pickups in the bridge, but the Dimarzio chopper surprised me. If the Chopper sucks in this strat, I may get a ful size bucker or maybe a Little JB Jr.
Have you tried the Duncan Lil 59? I have one in my Telecaster and it sounds incredible!!! Will never change it.

I think I am going:

Dimarzio Chopper
Dimarzio Injector
Dimarzio Injector

:)
 
Re: Duncan JB or Rio Grande BBQ for Fat Strat?

Vito Bratta used a '59 in the bridge of a strat and his sound was amazing!

I've always found the BBQ Bucker to be the exact opposite of a lively sounding pickup... great for Les Pauls that have dense comb filter happy mahogany bodies paired with too bright maple tops.

Don't rule out the DZ AT-1...
 
Re: Duncan JB or Rio Grande BBQ for Fat Strat?

papersoul said:
My strat is naturally warm and full! I decided I don't want my strat to sound like all my other guitars with a beefy humbucker.
I am not a huge fan of rail pickups in the bridge, but the Dimarzio chopper surprised me. If the Chopper sucks in this strat, I may get a ful size bucker or maybe a Little JB Jr.
Have you tried the Duncan Lil 59? I have one in my Telecaster and it sounds incredible!!! Will never change it.

I think I am going:

Dimarzio Chopper
Dimarzio Injector
Dimarzio Injector

:)
Click to expand...

Dimarzio Virtual Solo?
 
Re: Duncan JB or Rio Grande BBQ for Fat Strat?

For a rocking strat, WCR SRV singles + WCR Ironman HB rocks my world :smokin:
 
Re: Duncan JB or Rio Grande BBQ for Fat Strat?

Those injectors might be too fat sounding if the strat already sounds warm & full. I mean if you are looking to keep the strat sounding stratty then look into some areas instead, unless you've already tried them & don't like them.

I'm looking for new pickups in my HSS strat type Godin as well. I got & installed a area 67 in the neck today, I'm liking it so far. I'll post about it in my thread later.
 
Re: Duncan JB or Rio Grande BBQ for Fat Strat?

I had a strat with area 51's in it. I didnt care too much for them. Im thinking of going with my pearly gates and some texas specials.
 
Re: Duncan JB or Rio Grande BBQ for Fat Strat?

Well, I spent a lot of time on the strat today and I may just keep the single coils stock, they are fairly quiet and sound very clean and pure. I guess I have no real problem with them, so maybe I save my money and keep it stock other than the Chopper bridge pickup. Now, I just have to decide if I need a 500K volume pot, LOL.
 
Re: Duncan JB or Rio Grande BBQ for Fat Strat?

papersoul said:
My strat is naturally warm and full! I decided I don't want my strat to sound like all my other guitars with a beefy humbucker.
I am not a huge fan of rail pickups in the bridge, but the Dimarzio chopper surprised me. If the Chopper sucks in this strat, I may get a ful size bucker or maybe a Little JB Jr.
Have you tried the Duncan Lil 59? I have one in my Telecaster and it sounds incredible!!! Will never change it.

I think I am going:

Dimarzio Chopper
Dimarzio Injector
Dimarzio Injector

:)
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have a Lil '59n and it's working out fine for the application I have it in. been thinking about trying a bridge model.

I've tries the JB Jr a few times and it just wasn't what I was looking for. for the neck/middle the Hot Rail was closer. for the bridge, a real humbucker was what it took. lol!
 
Re: Duncan JB or Rio Grande BBQ for Fat Strat?

zenmindbeginner said:
I've always found the BBQ Bucker to be the exact opposite of a lively sounding pickup... great for Les Pauls that have dense comb filter happy mahogany bodies paired with too bright maple tops.

Don't rule out the DZ AT-1...
Click to expand...

I completly disagree about the BBQ, if anything it is much more "lively" sounding than the AT-1.
i had the AT-1 and sold it to raybarbee here. I hated that pu, it was like a JB with no life or presence,very dead sounding through my rig
I dont get the raves over that dimarzio, i think the air zone destroys it on every level:14:
 
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