Is an HS superstrat the final word in a less is more setup?

[ErikH]

Re: Is an HS superstrat the final word in a less is more setup?

HS is a cool setup. I had my Frankenstrat set up that way for a while. Brobucker in the neck and reverse slant APS-1 in the neck. It worked great, very versatile. I like HH better in that guitar though.

Lynch has his HS guitars wired to a 500k push/pull pot. It's either neck or bridge, no combo. When pulled up, it's value is changed to 250k via a 500k resistor wired in parallel with the volume pot in that position.

This diagram, linky, doesn't show the resistor but I have a diagram that shows it. On the lug to the left of the neck hot on the DPDT, solder one end of a 500k resistor there, solder the other end to ground. Works great if your neck single is a traditional single-coil. With a rails type or single-coil sized humbucker, it's not necessary unless you like it with 250k instead.

 

[Butch Snyder]

Re: Is an HS superstrat the final word in a less is more setup?

What about an HH that's actually has a humbucker in the bridge position and a Single coil anfd Sustainer in the neck position sharing one mounting ring. Neal Schon has that in his Sig LPs. Seems to work for him...

 

[Zhangliqun]

Re: Is an HS superstrat the final word in a less is more setup?

I had a Strat once that I put a humbucker in the neck and left the other two single coil. SSH if you will... I dug it, wanted a killer jazz tone in the neck for sort of a quasi-fusion guitar.

 

[uOpt]

Re: Is an HS superstrat the final word in a less is more setup?

I had a Strat once that I put a humbucker in the neck and left the other two single coil. SSH if you will... I dug it, wanted a killer jazz tone in the neck for sort of a quasi-fusion guitar.

I have SSH in one of my Ash blazers. Little Screamin' Demon in the bridge, Quarter Pounder in the middle, EMG 60 in the neck.

Looks goofy but the EMG 60 really plays in that guitar.

 

[Fusion1]

Re: Is an HS superstrat the final word in a less is more setup?

That's a config I never tried HSS with the hum in the neck lol, I'll have to give it a shot someday.

The H/S is one of my favorite looks while maybe not the most versatile, but I love it. Not my guitar here but I have one just like it:

 

[jhale667]

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jhale667, that's the go right there. Need a reverse maple fretboard though!

I'd reverse slant the single coil (treble side towards the headstock) too

Thanks. I've thought about slanting the neck pu in another one someday, played a few Charvels that had them routed like that...it is a slightly different, cool sound on its own..

They DO look amazing.

Thanks.

But they'd look better with a different pup config!

Sez you! :9:

I have a single-hum with an identical (nearly vintage now) Charvel neck on it as well...

Yanking the EMG81 out of it...still debating (much like with the center one in the pic, there's a CC in there at the moment) between the Alt8 and C8..may go with a DD, as that's what it originally had in it years ago...though it's a hard ash body, and it was a wee bit snarly with the Distortion...not like that was necessarily a bad thing...

I want to be a veritable Baskin-Robbins of Superstrats...lol

 

[Jocelyn]

Re: Is an HS superstrat the final word in a less is more setup?

Although I did not like the HS configration on the one guitar I had it. I must say I liked the look of it.. Infact I liked the look better than HSS look. As some of you said it lokks uncluttered. I might give this configration a try again... on a diff guitar.

 

[elelpe]

Re: Is an HS superstrat the final word in a less is more setup?

HS is a cool setup.

+1. i think visually it doesn't please majority though. guitar that looks cool to me with hs configuration is tele plus, like jonny greenwood's tele.