Help!!! I'm Becoming a Strat Guy...

[BS123]

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I have found myself going into music stores and playing the Strats more than the Teles.... Since gettng my Variax, which is contoured like a Strat (I used to hate those contours) I have really gotten used to them and am now playing Strats everywhere I go. I really love the neck pickup on a Strat and I love the 2nd & 4th positions on a Strat. No matter how hard you try, you jut can't get the "quack" from a Tele that you can from a Strat. Now, with the Twang Banger, I can get the tone of a Tele bridge pickup instead of a lame Strat bridge pickup. I have been working the tremolos (including those equipped with Floyds :smack: ).

I don't know what to do. It has even reached so far as to have me interested in the Yngwie Malmsteen Strat. Can you chicken pick on a scalloped neck? I don't know, but I really like flying on that neck....

 

[JeffB]

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........and am now playing Strats everywhere I go...

Hee hee Me too. The older I get the more I love those Strats. There's a certain "comfy like an old pair of shoes" feel to them.

... interested in the Yngwie Malmsteen Strat. Can you chicken pick on a scalloped neck? ....

Haven't played one in a long time, but I think as long as you have a "light" fretting hand/technique you should be fine. I have a lumbering, clutzy,heavy fretting hand/technique (I'm working on it, I'm working on it!) and I would always tend to go sharp on the YJMs. I'm actually thinking of getting one down the road in a year or so (or buy a new scalloped neck for my current guitar) just so that It will force me to lighten up my fretting hand.

 

[BS123]

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I think as long as you have a "light" fretting hand/technique you should be fine.

I have heard that a lot. I have a very light touch...

 

[kevlar3000]

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I go through phases between Strats and Teles, I had about 6 mo of digging the Tele and then the strat has been # 1 for a couple months. I love them both but the neck position on a Strat is tough to beat.

 

[Hoss]

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Butch...there is no problem...i can assure you that the strat and tele can live in harmony at your house...don't fight this...just give in and let go...........lol

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[That90'sGuy]

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Welcome to the dark side (LP fan turned strat fanatic )

 

[Lewguitar]

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You don't help. You just need a good Strat! :dance:

 

[NathanCahill]

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Welcome to the dark side (LP fan turned strat fanatic )

Traitor! :saeek:

Seriously I may pick up another strat at some point solid instrument, just not my bag at the moment.

 

[Paul S.]

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I've been a strat guy my whole life. There's nothing more versatile. Welcome to the group!
BTW, JeffB, what's with stealing my StrongBad avatar? :burnout:


Paul

 

[Dave]

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I've been looking at a strat for awhile to add to my tele collection (is one considered a collection?)

Lately, I have my friends little shredding Jackson with JB and Custom, and I just can't dig the humbuckers-as much as I want to, I just can't do it. I thought that one single coil guitar and one dual HB guitar would cover all my bases, but I always gravitate towards that awesome single coil sound.

There's nothing wrong with a strat and tele-Hoss said it perfectly!

 

[Im_in_Disguise]

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I confess! I am the kid who went to the music store the day he was going to buy a tele, and came home with a used strat instead.


join us...

 

[Bludave]

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I have three. Oh and I have two Teles as well (I have others that I will leave for another thread) Welcome to the club!!

 

[Hoss]

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"I'm in Disguise"


it's killing me...just who are you.....lol.......... :22: :yeah: :11: :bandit: :dunno: :?: :33:

 

[Stratcat]

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Welcome to the club. :smoker:

 

[B2D]

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There's a REASON the Strat is the most copied, most versatile, and most popular electric guitar EVER.

Don't fight the flow, man. Just let it in! It's great to have different flavors of electric twang... I always thought Teles were great guitars and there's twang tones you can't get any other way in them but for me the Strat is where its at!

Speaking of which my best friend used nothing but Les Pauls from the time she started (5 years ago) until now, and now she's beating up on a Tele and her paul si getting less and less attention! LOL

About the Yngwie strat... I have sort of a light touch when i play as well (although I've learned to dig in and play hard for more snarly tones and dynamics) but while i didn't have a problem with going sharp from pressing too hard I DID have a problem with the 6th, 5th, 2nd, and 1st strings falling off the fretboard when i used vibrato on them! Let me explain... on a scalloped board as there is no wood to restrict vertical fingertip motion anymore vibrato is made way easier... TOO easy for me. I have a wide, smooth vibrato that is similar to John Sykes' and I'm used to having to use a lot of physical hand and finger momentum to really get that going but on the YJM strat there was no resistance and i had a LOT of trouble adjusting to it, as my normally wide vibrato required a fraction of the effort to execute so i was pulling the strings right off the fretboard. So be careful. Also i did not like those DiMarzio HS3's, they sounded very tinny and thin.

 

[Indie P Bass]

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the strat us hard to beat....

 

[iDunnoMang]

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Strats are awesome. :dance:


hey dave, how do you like those fralins? i was thinking of getting a set for my strat sometime or another. i would probably go with the vintage hots :32:

 

[BS123]

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You don't help. You just need a good Strat! :dance:

Sounds like the ticket...

 

[JERMOE]

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im going through that phase too...i used to never want to play strats because they look so boring because all companies make generic copies of em. but now everytime i go to guitar center i only play strats. i also want a tele so i denno what to do. get a strat or tele. im trading in my epiphone g400 for one.

 

[BS123]

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I have owned about 3-5 Strats in my lifetime. The first was the best. It was in 1983. It was a 1970's model with the big headstock. It was canary yellow with a white pickguard, a maple fretboard and HUGE frets. I had an Electra Pheonix (don't ask, it doesn't matter) that I traded for it. I took my new Strat to school adn everyone laughed at it. They liked by Pheonix better. :smack:

I took the Strat back and got my Electra back. :banghead: My second Strat was an Elite model from 1984. It was okay but with the pickups it had, it just didn't sound like a real Strat. I traded it in on a Fender Contemporary Strat. It was green metallic with a rosewwod fretboard and a black headstock. It had a back pickguard with two Strat pickups and a DiMarzio DLX Plus in the bridge. The DLX Plus is a soapbar-size humbucker. It was nice, IMO.... It had this cool locking trem that was really cool. The nut was locking but worked like a vise. You could pull a lever and unlock it so string changes were pretty quick. If some of the older fellas here remember a band called GTR, Steve Howe and Steve Hackett, that guitar model is on their first album cover, FWIW.

My last Strat was a Tex Mex Strat from 1997. It was vintage white with a rosewood fretboard. It had Tex Mex pickups and would scream a very fat scream. At the time, I was trying to feed a wife and 2 children and finish college. I sold it to gain a little money.

And here we are today.....