Well, after living w/ the Dimarzio Injector and VVHB2 for a while, and recently purchasing a Hot Rails for the bridge of my strat, I finally decided to jump in and buy a full set of true single coils. Just felt like going back to an older, more basic sound.
I decided to take the plunge on some Fender Custom Shop Fat 50's pickups. I had played a $2600 Fender CS '56 Relic Strat (swamp ash, maple board) that had them in it, through a tweed Bassman, and it was just such a great clean, pure sound. I even liked the bridge pickup with no tone knob wired to it! Very reedy and dry sounding.
So after price matching, I walked out with a set of Fat 50's.
Put them in my strat (swamp ash, maple neck) with a 250K volume and two 500K tones and a 5-way switch and I'm very happy once I switched which input I was using on my tweed bassman.
About the only changes I'm going to make are: 1) a couple 250K tone pots, just to be more authentic to the original strat setup, and 2) a 3-way switch. I don't use the 2 & 4 positions much (that strat sound is just too overdone for me), and a 3-way switch would make it alot easier to get to the middle switch without switching past it.
Anyway, happy camper for the time being!
I decided to take the plunge on some Fender Custom Shop Fat 50's pickups. I had played a $2600 Fender CS '56 Relic Strat (swamp ash, maple board) that had them in it, through a tweed Bassman, and it was just such a great clean, pure sound. I even liked the bridge pickup with no tone knob wired to it! Very reedy and dry sounding.
So after price matching, I walked out with a set of Fat 50's.
Put them in my strat (swamp ash, maple neck) with a 250K volume and two 500K tones and a 5-way switch and I'm very happy once I switched which input I was using on my tweed bassman.
About the only changes I'm going to make are: 1) a couple 250K tone pots, just to be more authentic to the original strat setup, and 2) a 3-way switch. I don't use the 2 & 4 positions much (that strat sound is just too overdone for me), and a 3-way switch would make it alot easier to get to the middle switch without switching past it.
Anyway, happy camper for the time being!
