HSS Guitars. What do you have in yours?

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'87 Kramer F-3000 (NOT the Focus 3000) Shur Aldrich bridge model in the bridge postion. Dimarzio HS-3 in the neck. DiMarzio mystery stack in the middle.

The Aldrich KILLS.
 
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Well, my G&L Legacy was S/S/S with its stock pickups. Now I guess it's sort of H/S/S since I put in a Lil Screamin Demon in the bridge with custom shop Quarter Pounds for the neck and middle.
 
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I second seriously thinking about 59/Custom hybrid, a great do-it-all pickup that seems to work well in pretty much any context... worked well on my strat which had problems accomodating humbuckers. Very tasty good voicing. Well suited to HSS in my opinion.
 
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Toejam said:
Well, my G&L Legacy was S/S/S with its stock pickups. Now I guess it's sort of H/S/S since I put in a Lil Screamin Demon in the bridge with custom shop Quarter Pounds for the neck and middle.
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Are you splitting/parallel switching the lil demon?
 
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No, decided not to split the Demon. Just standard humbucking for that.
 
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They blend very well together. The G&L PTB system is also very responsive and gets lots of different tones.
 
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I have an ash strat with all maple neck, I run a Perpetual Burn with 2x SSL1's. Before the Perpetual Burn, I had a JB and loved it, I just like the Burns split tone more and it cleans up better, plus it's a little less aggressive sounding. Before that I alternated between a Pearly Gates and a Screamin' Demon, but once I got my single coils dialed in, the middle and humbucker split position didn't sound how I wanted with either of those. The Demon was nice and had good thump, but was never thick enough for me and sounded more subtle then any other pickup when tapping and speed picking. The alnico 8 solves those Demon issues, but I didn't like how it played with the SSL1's. The Pearly Gates 8 is also pretty fun, but I did that in a PRS SE Bernie for awhile, and that guitar has a Pearly Gates + now.
 
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I just swapped a 59/custom into mine the other night and added a coil split. Paired with an APS-1 in the neck, it sounds amazing. I have a RWRP APS-1 on the way for the middle to replace the pickup that is in there now.
 
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Zheddar said:
I have an ash strat with all maple neck, I run a Perpetual Burn with 2x SSL1's. Before the Perpetual Burn, I had a JB and loved it, I just like the Burns split tone more and it cleans up better, plus it's a little less aggressive sounding. Before that I alternated between a Pearly Gates and a Screamin' Demon, but once I got my single coils dialed in, the middle and humbucker split position didn't sound how I wanted with either of those. The Demon was nice and had good thump, but was never thick enough for me and sounded more subtle then any other pickup when tapping and speed picking. The alnico 8 solves those Demon issues, but I didn't like how it played with the SSL1's. The Pearly Gates 8 is also pretty fun, but I did that in a PRS SE Bernie for awhile, and that guitar has a Pearly Gates + now.
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I've never split a Demon, I love the clarity and thump it has. Too bad it doesn't split that well.
 
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chadd said:
I just swapped a 59/custom into mine the other night and added a coil split. Paired with an APS-1 in the neck, it sounds amazing. I have a RWRP APS-1 on the way for the middle to replace the pickup that is in there now.
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Is the APS's low end tight enough to balance with the hybrid?
 
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I tried and tried so many HSS combos on my Black Paisley Strat before giving up and converting to a more standard Strat SSS setup...then trying several more combos of single coils. Now that the furious modding is over and the dust cloud has settled on that guitar, I have DiMarzio Red Velvets in every position, and I could not be happier. Waaaaaay better than any of the HSS combinations I tried, and really one of the meanest sounding Strats I've ever "made."

Here it is with one of the SSS variations I tried: SDS-1, True Velvet, Red Velvet.

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ItsaBass said:
I tried and tried so many HSS combos on my Black Paisley Strat before giving up and converting to a more standard Strat SSS setup...then trying several more combos is single coils. Now that the furious modding is over and the dust cloud has settled on that guitar, I have DiMarzio Red Velvets in every position, and I could not be happier. Waaaaaay better than any of the HSS combinations I tried, and really one of the meanest sounding Strats I've ever "made."

Here it is with one of the SSS variations I tried: SDS-1, True Velvet, Red Velvet.

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Both of my real strats are SSS. My '62RI has a Duncan Albert Lee set and my '77 has a DG-20 pickguard set. The two guitars I own that are HSS are a Washburn Mercury and a Godin LG. I can't go to a SSS set up on those, unfortunately.
 
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I am currently finishing up a project that will have a Dimarzio Area 67 in the neck, Dimarzio 58 in the middle , and Dimarzio Super Distortion S (single coil size) in the bridge. Using a Super Switch so positions 2 and 5 split each of the two pickups involved. Guitar is a recent Special Edition Fender MIM black strat with maple neck and fingerboard. It is incomplete due to the middle being out of phase with the neck when combined in Position 4, so I just need to swap positions of neck's red and green wires and haven't had a chance to yet. But I was very happy with what I heard each pickup doing on their own in Positions 1, 3 and 5 when I tried the guitar after the initial wiring job. I was going for stratty sounds from the neck and middle pickups and metal/hard rock from the bridge and each one seems to do its job well. The Area 58 like someone said above, is a little bland in the middle position all on its own in Position 3, but not so much that it is a problem. I am also impressed how Dimarzio was able to design the Super Distortion S single-coil size to yield such an authentic full humbucker under high gain sound despite it being wired up to a typical Strat 250K volume pot and 250K tone pots, vs 500K pots.
 
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Benjy_26 said:
Is the APS's low end tight enough to balance with the hybrid?
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There's no issue at all, though I will likely swap magnets in the hybrid to an A2. I just prefer the mid push of A2s.
 
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Alder body Strat, Bridge=Duncan Custom, Middle and Neck=Duncan Vintage Rails.

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Heavy Metal Strat

Duncan 78 in bridge
Dimarzio Area 58's in the single spots
 
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Quite a few of you guys are running. Dimarzio Area variants. How stratty do they get?
 
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