Is it possible?! Challenge!
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Re: Is it possible?! Challenge!
Men has tried since the dawn of time to no avail
I finally gave up this year. Ive tried everything since 1974, and I don't think it can be done
The closest is a Strat with a humbucker in the bridge or a PRS but it will never be the same
I finally went out and got an Epi Les Paul and use it when I need that sound
Even though my Warmoth Start gets close but... no cigar
I'm sure someone will chime in and say it can be done
Men has tried since the dawn of time to no avail
I finally gave up this year. Ive tried everything since 1974, and I don't think it can be done
The closest is a Strat with a humbucker in the bridge or a PRS but it will never be the same
I finally went out and got an Epi Les Paul and use it when I need that sound
Even though my Warmoth Start gets close but... no cigar
I'm sure someone will chime in and say it can be done
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the guy who invented fire
Fuzzy. Guitars
Re: Is it possible?! Challenge!
If that were possible, we'd all play these Strats of which you speak! The best you can do is a good strat tone in the first 3 positions, a single coil + bucker in the 4th and a bucker in a guitar with a whammy bar in the 5th position...but there are lots of people here to tell you what pups you should do if you want to do that!
ovo12 said:
If that were possible, we'd all play these Strats of which you speak! The best you can do is a good strat tone in the first 3 positions, a single coil + bucker in the 4th and a bucker in a guitar with a whammy bar in the 5th position...but there are lots of people here to tell you what pups you should do if you want to do that!
Benjy_26
25's Nemesis
Re: Is it possible?! Challenge!
not exactly, but you can get close. It usually involves a thick sounding, high output 'bucker at the bridge, like a Custom Custom. This helps, along with a bunch of other tricks, but there's no getting around the fact that a strat is still alder or ash (usually), has a bolt on maple neck, usually has a trem, sports a double cutaway and has the wrong scale for the LP sound.
That being said, LP guys (like yours truly) feel very comfortable on the Tele.
Go figure. :burnout:
not exactly, but you can get close. It usually involves a thick sounding, high output 'bucker at the bridge, like a Custom Custom. This helps, along with a bunch of other tricks, but there's no getting around the fact that a strat is still alder or ash (usually), has a bolt on maple neck, usually has a trem, sports a double cutaway and has the wrong scale for the LP sound.
That being said, LP guys (like yours truly) feel very comfortable on the Tele.
Go figure. :burnout:
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TheProphet
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Re: Is it possible?! Challenge!
Tell you the truth I'm not one for using the bridge humbucker on Paul's ... to me it's at the neck - therefor I think I'd put a PAF style like a '59 in the neck
Ever wondered how a alder body - rosewood fretboard would sound with a PAF at the neck, with singles in the mid and bridge? I wonder how close you'd get?
I get close to "Diet Les Paul Lite" with a '59 in the neck with that wood combo so I think you could get strat ... but not paul
Tell you the truth I'm not one for using the bridge humbucker on Paul's ... to me it's at the neck - therefor I think I'd put a PAF style like a '59 in the neck
Ever wondered how a alder body - rosewood fretboard would sound with a PAF at the neck, with singles in the mid and bridge? I wonder how close you'd get?
I get close to "Diet Les Paul Lite" with a '59 in the neck with that wood combo so I think you could get strat ... but not paul
Davey
Goliath of Tone
Re: Is it possible?! Challenge!
things that contribute to the paul sound:
HUGE body (compared to the strat)
hardtail
set neck
a total oposite to the things that give you a strat sound
so no. you can fool around a bit and get close to the sound, but no. you cant have that classic paul and that classic strat sound in a normal strat (maybe one of those line6 guitars, but i dunno how that works at all so i cant comment)
things that contribute to the paul sound:
HUGE body (compared to the strat)
hardtail
set neck
a total oposite to the things that give you a strat sound
so no. you can fool around a bit and get close to the sound, but no. you cant have that classic paul and that classic strat sound in a normal strat (maybe one of those line6 guitars, but i dunno how that works at all so i cant comment)
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Lewguitar
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Re: Is it possible?! Challenge!
Not for me it isn't, though the closest I've gotten is to use a 59B or 59 Trembucker in the bridge and Duncan SSL-1's as the neck and middle pickups. But I have no guitars set up that way at present. Personally, I think it's impossible to get both pickups EQ'd to sound thier best. The single coils sound to bright...the humbucker sounds to loud.
Eric Clapton feels he achieves the goal by using the boost in his EC Strat. It does work...sort of. But only "sort of".
Lew
Not for me it isn't, though the closest I've gotten is to use a 59B or 59 Trembucker in the bridge and Duncan SSL-1's as the neck and middle pickups. But I have no guitars set up that way at present. Personally, I think it's impossible to get both pickups EQ'd to sound thier best. The single coils sound to bright...the humbucker sounds to loud.
Eric Clapton feels he achieves the goal by using the boost in his EC Strat. It does work...sort of. But only "sort of".
Lew