Getting my lone star strat to sound les paulish?
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Destructone
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Re: Getting my lone star strat to sound les paulish?
The Dimarzio Breed... it was designed because Vai wanted one of his JEM's to sound les paul-ish.
although he puts the Breed mostly into basswood JEM's.
The Dimarzio Breed... it was designed because Vai wanted one of his JEM's to sound les paul-ish.
although he puts the Breed mostly into basswood JEM's.
Destructone
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Re: Getting my lone star strat to sound les paulish?
Duncan-wise... i guess the Blues Saraceno will do.
Duncan-wise... i guess the Blues Saraceno will do.
Aceman
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Re: Getting my lone star strat to sound les paulish?
This is a bit radical - but it will work: First, remove the neck. Next, cut the top off of the body. Replace the back with a flat slab of Mahagony about 2 inches thick. Make sure the slab is big enough so the whole top of the guitar fits on it. Remove all of the electronics and hardware from the remaining top portion of the body. Next -glue the body to the mahogany. Sand the top of the body until you hit the mahogony. The glue a piece of maple to the mahogany - maybe a quarter inch or so. Trace a Les Paul on that (you have a couple - use your favorite). Then cut out the Les Paul shape. Route out a neck pocket, and be sure to get the right pitch angle. Then carve out two humbucker cavities and a place for controls in back. Drill holes for the stop tail piece and bridge (you can get those on-line). Then, glue the neck in place. Swap three of the tuners to the right side of the headstock (reshape the headstock if necessary). Then slap a couple of your fave Duncans in there....(or EMG's which I think you like too), wire the controls, string it up and rock on! That will be pretty close.
Tip: If you want Les Paul sound, don't buy a strat!
This is a bit radical - but it will work: First, remove the neck. Next, cut the top off of the body. Replace the back with a flat slab of Mahagony about 2 inches thick. Make sure the slab is big enough so the whole top of the guitar fits on it. Remove all of the electronics and hardware from the remaining top portion of the body. Next -glue the body to the mahogany. Sand the top of the body until you hit the mahogony. The glue a piece of maple to the mahogany - maybe a quarter inch or so. Trace a Les Paul on that (you have a couple - use your favorite). Then cut out the Les Paul shape. Route out a neck pocket, and be sure to get the right pitch angle. Then carve out two humbucker cavities and a place for controls in back. Drill holes for the stop tail piece and bridge (you can get those on-line). Then, glue the neck in place. Swap three of the tuners to the right side of the headstock (reshape the headstock if necessary). Then slap a couple of your fave Duncans in there....(or EMG's which I think you like too), wire the controls, string it up and rock on! That will be pretty close.
Tip: If you want Les Paul sound, don't buy a strat!
Re: Getting my lone star strat to sound les paulish?
I've always thought a Custom/APH would be the most versitile Les Paul ever.... what do you think? You could get Slash's metal tone out of the neck and really just about anything.WICKED LESTER said:the custom sounded real good but lacked the fattness i want from this strat
so what i guess i would need is a custom type tone with more fattness?
I may try a DD in this guitar? I have one spare that came out of my one lester
XSSIVE
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Re: Getting my lone star strat to sound les paulish?
i own 8 strats as of now...all fat strats each with a different bridge hum. the fattest one of all is my yellow strat which has a dimarzio super 3 in it. does it sound like a les paul not 100% but is it thick and fat...YEAH! next would either be my strat with a breed in the bridge or the one with a baswood body a floyd and a tone zone. the ones with duncans are the thinner sounding strats...not real thin but certainly thinner than the dimarzio equipped strats. i have a custom custom in one strat and am trying a custom 5 in another as soon as it gets here. so far of all the duncans i have used in strats the custom custom is the fattest but if you play through a mid heavy amp i wouldn't go near it since it has a massive mid spike and not enough low end to round it out. but if your amp has a nice thick low end and you roll back the mids a touch it can get pretty damn fat and also cuts through like mad due to that mid spike. the super 3 also has a mid spike but is a much hotter pickup and has a rolled off top end and more low end than a custom custom so it tends to be much thicker with less of a top end edge to it and the mid spike is less noticable. in all honesty if you want to get a fat les paul-ish tone from a strat you need to go with a dimarzio (super 3, breed, tone zone etc) since they focus more on low end unlike duncans do.
-Mike
i own 8 strats as of now...all fat strats each with a different bridge hum. the fattest one of all is my yellow strat which has a dimarzio super 3 in it. does it sound like a les paul not 100% but is it thick and fat...YEAH! next would either be my strat with a breed in the bridge or the one with a baswood body a floyd and a tone zone. the ones with duncans are the thinner sounding strats...not real thin but certainly thinner than the dimarzio equipped strats. i have a custom custom in one strat and am trying a custom 5 in another as soon as it gets here. so far of all the duncans i have used in strats the custom custom is the fattest but if you play through a mid heavy amp i wouldn't go near it since it has a massive mid spike and not enough low end to round it out. but if your amp has a nice thick low end and you roll back the mids a touch it can get pretty damn fat and also cuts through like mad due to that mid spike. the super 3 also has a mid spike but is a much hotter pickup and has a rolled off top end and more low end than a custom custom so it tends to be much thicker with less of a top end edge to it and the mid spike is less noticable. in all honesty if you want to get a fat les paul-ish tone from a strat you need to go with a dimarzio (super 3, breed, tone zone etc) since they focus more on low end unlike duncans do.
-Mike
madguitar26
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Re: Getting my lone star strat to sound les paulish?
tom anderson h3+,nasty lows and midds,ceramic.
duncan JB with 022f capacitor for cutting off the high end(have on my strat).
but a les paul is fatter.
tom anderson h3+,nasty lows and midds,ceramic.
duncan JB with 022f capacitor for cutting off the high end(have on my strat).
but a les paul is fatter.
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