I am truly amazed at how great this pickup sounds in the bridge position of my Strat. I've read that this is one of Duncans most underrated pickups and I can tell you that it has exceeded all my expectations. I gave it a test drive thru my modified Peavey Classic 30 and my Fender DRRI. First off, the overall balance is superb and the high end has a great strength to it. By strength I mean 'push.' Not at all thin and wimpy. Played clean you can hear a slight rise in the mids but it's not the annoying kind that grinds on your ears. Roll the volume knob on the guitar down and the tone chimes and cleans up beautifully without losing any low end strength. Really, it's one of the nicest clean tones for a bridge humbucker that I've heard to date. I get my overdrive and distortion thru pedals and the articulation from this pickup comes thru clear as a bell even with the gain on both pedals turned up. Very, very precise and again, the strenght from the high end is just fabulous. Very clear and not at all muddy played clean or with gain. I've tried a number of differant pickups in my Strat. Air Zone, Air Norton, Air Classic, Virtual PAF (which is now in my Les Paul-love it!!) Lil '59 and the Custom Custom. I know that tone is SO subjective and while these are all great pickups I was never truly satisfied with what I was hearing and I'd just about given up on finding a humbucker for my Strat. I'd read that the Blues Saraceno was suppose to give a PAF quality to thinner sounding guitars but I really was not expecting the end result. I'm not kidding when I say that my Strat now sounds every bit as full as my Les Paul. I would HIGHLY recommend this pickup in the bridge of a Strat.
Installed the Blues Saraceno in my Strat!!
- Thread starter Mike M.
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Stringmachine
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Re: Installed the Blues Saraceno in my Strat!!
That is what I've been loking for. Something to fatten up the sound of my strat. I think I'll order one tomorrow and try it out myself. Thanks for the review.
That is what I've been loking for. Something to fatten up the sound of my strat. I think I'll order one tomorrow and try it out myself. Thanks for the review.
51501984
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Re: Installed the Blues Saraceno in my Strat!!
Well ya got me there. It`s not a scooped sounding pickup that`s for sure. To me it sounds simliar to a 59 with the highs and bass pulled back and the mids slightly bumped up with a little bit more output. Then again , to my ears the 59 dosen`t sound scooped.
dani said:
Well ya got me there. It`s not a scooped sounding pickup that`s for sure. To me it sounds simliar to a 59 with the highs and bass pulled back and the mids slightly bumped up with a little bit more output. Then again , to my ears the 59 dosen`t sound scooped.
Kommerzbassist
Thunderbirdologist
Re: Installed the Blues Saraceno in my Strat!!
hmm that sounds interesting... maybe I should try one of these in my strat too... unfortunately I've currently got to save up for an amp
hmm that sounds interesting... maybe I should try one of these in my strat too... unfortunately I've currently got to save up for an amp
Jeff_H
Dean Hardtail Fanologist
Re: Installed the Blues Saraceno in my Strat!!
I just put the Original Parallel Axis TB in my only Floyd equipped guitar, and it is fantastic as well. It's output is in the range of the Custom series of pups, but it is everything Mike says and then some. It has a slightly different eq curve then the Blues, but it rocks plain and simple. It really does make the bridge position of a strat or super strat type guitar sound fat and full like a Les Paul.
I've never played my guitar with the floyd as much until I put the PATB in. I was going to go for the Blues TB, but this one presented itself in a deal, and I couldn't be happier. Do yourself a favor and try either the Blues TB or the PATB.
I just put the Original Parallel Axis TB in my only Floyd equipped guitar, and it is fantastic as well. It's output is in the range of the Custom series of pups, but it is everything Mike says and then some. It has a slightly different eq curve then the Blues, but it rocks plain and simple. It really does make the bridge position of a strat or super strat type guitar sound fat and full like a Les Paul.
I've never played my guitar with the floyd as much until I put the PATB in. I was going to go for the Blues TB, but this one presented itself in a deal, and I couldn't be happier. Do yourself a favor and try either the Blues TB or the PATB.
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LooseCannon
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Re: Installed the Blues Saraceno in my Strat!!
Jeff would you mind posting some sound clips?
Jeff would you mind posting some sound clips?
Jeff_H
Dean Hardtail Fanologist
Re: Installed the Blues Saraceno in my Strat!!
My recording software is not installed since my computer crashed, but I've been needing an excuse to load it up again. I'll see what I can do tomorrow, since I'm staying away from all of the crazy drunks on the roads and at the parks.
My recording software is not installed since my computer crashed, but I've been needing an excuse to load it up again. I'll see what I can do tomorrow, since I'm staying away from all of the crazy drunks on the roads and at the parks.
