Hey all, here's my predicament. I picked up an Eric Clapton strat, new a few weeks ago. I love it, plays great. I love the bridge pickup, with OD & clean. I haven't really had to use the mid boost much at all. When I have it's only up to like 2, just to get me "over the top". Now the neck pickup sounds pretty dark, a little too dark. With OD it actually is surely too dark. The 2 & 4 positions sound ok clean, just a tad too dark. But with OD, the 2 & 4 position are much too dark. There is no glassy, stratty kind of thing happening. In fact I would describe the tone in the 2 & 4 as on the verge of dead. I wouldn't even think of using the mid boost in those positions, just goes to straight mud with zero cut. I really noticed it with my band again tonight...quite unusable in the 2 & 4. Now I can get a touch of sparkle with the TBX control, but I feel like I should get a strattier tone with the TBX in the detent or middle, off position. Btw I am using a 68 Super Reverb, and for drive I use a Catalinbread SFT. I also use an Analogman TS808 modded TS9 on some rhythm parts with the drive all the way down and the level almost all the way up for a nice gritty tone. This is where I would like my 2 & 4 positions to come through.
Now, obviously these are dark pups, but I'm wondering if height adjustments could at let substantially help with this dead tone on 2 & 4 positions? I hate to go and start hunting around for pickups or electronics replacements on this fiddle. And I definitely don't want it to be an overly bright strat. H ha I never thought I would have the problem of a strat that is too dark!
Now, obviously these are dark pups, but I'm wondering if height adjustments could at let substantially help with this dead tone on 2 & 4 positions? I hate to go and start hunting around for pickups or electronics replacements on this fiddle. And I definitely don't want it to be an overly bright strat. H ha I never thought I would have the problem of a strat that is too dark!
