I take back everything I've ever said about Strats not having a great jazz tone.. wow

[Chickenwings]

Re: I take back everything I've ever said about Strats not having a great jazz tone..

Yeah, and you can also play Beethovens 5th on a kazoo

id like to hear that....a whole orchestra of kazoos!

 

[Gearjoneser]

Re: I take back everything I've ever said about Strats not having a great jazz tone..

I'm of the opinion that any guitarist who plays clean and values a palette of tones should own a strat.

At that point, you can try dozens of pickups to fine tune it. A2 pickups might yield some very usable jazzy strat tones.

One thing I prefer is to keep Fenders sounding traditional, but trying many of the oddball single coil designs on Gibsons and Dearmonds. Those would include Gretsch, Dearmond, Firebird, Charlie Christian, etc.

 

[Artie]

Re: I take back everything I've ever said about Strats not having a great jazz tone..

Allow me to clarify. I would only wire the neck and bridge pickup to the 3-way switch. I would wire the middle pickup to an on/on toggle that would combine it with whatever was on the 3 way in one position and route it to another on/on in the other position. The second on/on would send the middle to the volume pot in one position and remove it from the signal path in the other. This would let me get all seven combinations . . .

You only need to add one switch to get all of this. Just use a DPDT on-on-on switch. Switch in the middle gives you the normal 3-way. Flip the switch up to add the middle to whatever's selected on the 3-way. Flip the switch down to use the middle by itself.