Getting my lone star strat to sound les paulish?

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WICKED LESTER

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I want my lone star strat to have a LP tone when playing in the bridge postion
i bought this strat for two reasons
1. it was only $400
2.i love the clean tones it posseses

it had a pearly gates plus at first (put away in a box, it sounded way too thin trebly), then a duncan custom(sold),then a 81(which is up for sale)
i was thinking a dimarzio of some sort?
tone zone?
air zone?
norton?
the blues saraceno may not be hot enough but i have considered it :)
what are your thoughts on this?
 
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Re: Getting my lone star strat to sound les paulish?

Considering it's an alder body, the closest you may get is a Custom Custom. Even then, it'll still sound like super strat but have some LP qualities (like having a warmer tone).
 
Re: Getting my lone star strat to sound les paulish?

The Tone Zone will fatten it up considerably. That pickup was designed to add girth to strat-type trem-equipped guitars without muddying them up - give it a try.
 
Re: Getting my lone star strat to sound les paulish?

I just put a ceramic magnet in a TB-4 because it was a little trebley and I'm liking it alot :fing2: .Much thicker and creamier.I bought a Custom to try after reading your raving review a while back, but then saw you changed it out and I've yet to try mine out :rolleyes: .
 
Re: Getting my lone star strat to sound les paulish?

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 :)
 
Re: Getting my lone star strat to sound les paulish?

I thought you put the Custom in and said it was the best thing ever? Or was that in a different guitar?
 
Re: Getting my lone star strat to sound les paulish?

Kamanda~SD said:
I thought you put the Custom in and said it was the best thing ever?
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well it was "the best ever" until i plugged in my ZAKK WYLDE LP again
then it sounded not quite so great!:laugh2:
 
Re: Getting my lone star strat to sound les paulish?

PFDarkside said:
I don't know, that same Custom sounds great in my Paul. ;)
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Glad you are liking it PFDarkside :)
I am looking to make my strat as FAT sounding as possible in the bridge spot.
I may buy several used pups to see which has the best tone
 
Re: Getting my lone star strat to sound les paulish?

I know it may be considered heresy, but have you considered the Invader?
 
Re: Getting my lone star strat to sound les paulish?

The PGb/ CC combo I have in my Carvin gets me in the ballpark of a Gibson tone. I'd give it a shot, along with blocking the trem.
 
Re: Getting my lone star strat to sound les paulish?

What about the SD booster pedal - sez it can give a single coil an HB sound.
 
Re: Getting my lone star strat to sound les paulish?

I'd put a Duncan Custom Trembucker or Duncan Distortion Trembucker in. You're not ever going to get your Strat to sound just like a Les Paul because it's not a Les Paul. Les Pauls have alot more bass and lower mids than a Strat...it's because they are built very, very differantly.

For the tone you're after from your Strat, I would not recommend a Custom Custom because the CC is an alnico 2 pickup and alnico 2 produces a pickup tone with less bass than the same pickup with an alnico 5 or ceramic magnet.

So I'd suggest an alnico 5 or ceramic humbucker.

The Custom is ceramic. Since ceramic has more mids than alnico 5 and you want a pickup with more bass and mids to make up for the lack of deep bass and lower mids in your Strat when you compare it to a Les Paul, the ceramic magnet Duncan Custom or Duncan Distortion might be your best bet.

If you've already tried the Custom then I'd try a Distortion next.
 
Re: Getting my lone star strat to sound les paulish?

I can't say it enough... GIbson Dirty Fingers. It's fat, rude and articulate and made my Strat sound almost Paul-ish. I don't have a paul to compare with, but I have a Charvel 750XL which is Mahogany with a Maple top, thicker and heavier than a Paul and has a set Maple Neck. I have a Super Distortion in it and the DF comes close.
 
Re: Getting my lone star strat to sound les paulish?

The Tone Zone sounds like it might be what you are looking for!
 
Re: Getting my lone star strat to sound les paulish?

i tried a Distortion w/ nickel cover on a strat once and it sounded nice and fat
 
Re: Getting my lone star strat to sound les paulish?

A Tone Zone fatted up the originally thin bridge position of my SG quite well. I like it.
 
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