DreX
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Re: I think I've been converted ... I'm a Strat-Man!
My history with Strats is almost identical. I hated single coils back when I would use too much gain, in part to cover up a lack of skill at the time.
And I agree Strats feel very reflective. Maybe it's because a Strat can be quiet when you want it to be quiet, and loud when you want to be loud. They fit the mood more often than not. I've always felt HH guitars have had too many cups of coffee.
It's all subjective, such different pickup structures will inevitably sound different on some scale, but the PAF was designed by Seth Lover to be a quiet P-90, so the intent was for them to be similar, if not the same.
This is why I love HHH so much, like the SD Everything Axe (when wired for auto splitting), or the three gang spin a split that makes all the HHH into SSS, variably, because the bridge pickup is in it's correct location, and the pickups are humbucker when you want them to be humbucker, and true single coil when you want that instead (save for the Duckbucker, which sounds nice in it's own right).
My history with Strats is almost identical. I hated single coils back when I would use too much gain, in part to cover up a lack of skill at the time.
And I agree Strats feel very reflective. Maybe it's because a Strat can be quiet when you want it to be quiet, and loud when you want to be loud. They fit the mood more often than not. I've always felt HH guitars have had too many cups of coffee.
It's all subjective, such different pickup structures will inevitably sound different on some scale, but the PAF was designed by Seth Lover to be a quiet P-90, so the intent was for them to be similar, if not the same.
This is why I love HHH so much, like the SD Everything Axe (when wired for auto splitting), or the three gang spin a split that makes all the HHH into SSS, variably, because the bridge pickup is in it's correct location, and the pickups are humbucker when you want them to be humbucker, and true single coil when you want that instead (save for the Duckbucker, which sounds nice in it's own right).
