Ok, let's cut to it: What bridge pickup will make my Strat sound like a LP?
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Shnook
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Re: Ok, let's cut to it: What bridge pickup will make my Strat sound like a LP?
My GMW custom made 'Strat' has a SSL-1 in the neck, no middle pup, and a Blues Trembucker in the bridge. Sounds like a Strat in the neck position and like a good ole
Les Paul in the bridge position. Truly, I can cover a lot of tone territory with this setup.
My GMW custom made 'Strat' has a SSL-1 in the neck, no middle pup, and a Blues Trembucker in the bridge. Sounds like a Strat in the neck position and like a good ole
Les Paul in the bridge position. Truly, I can cover a lot of tone territory with this setup.
Re: Ok, let's cut to it: What bridge pickup will make my Strat sound like a LP?
Here is another trick I learned from hanging out at the Bill Lawrence website. Put a parallel capacitor (NOT A CERAMIC), but a polystyrene, or other high quality type parallel to your pickup. That drops the resonance frequency nicely. To decrease the punch, you can add a resistor in parallel to them. This is like adding a nickel cover over your pickup.
You could start with a standard HBer like a 59, and add a 330 (brighter), 470, or 680 (darker) pF capacitor parallel to the pickup. Worked very well for me. If you do it, put a 5000 Ohm resistor in series to the capacitor to get rid of some stray highs.
Here is another trick I learned from hanging out at the Bill Lawrence website. Put a parallel capacitor (NOT A CERAMIC), but a polystyrene, or other high quality type parallel to your pickup. That drops the resonance frequency nicely. To decrease the punch, you can add a resistor in parallel to them. This is like adding a nickel cover over your pickup.
You could start with a standard HBer like a 59, and add a 330 (brighter), 470, or 680 (darker) pF capacitor parallel to the pickup. Worked very well for me. If you do it, put a 5000 Ohm resistor in series to the capacitor to get rid of some stray highs.
Re: Ok, let's cut to it: What bridge pickup will make my Strat sound like a LP?
I had a CC that replaced the APH II in my maple board strat. Good, but a one trick pony and too dark for my tastes.
The PATB-3 Blues trembucker is stated to do what you want.
In terms of the dimarzio line, the Air Zone and there was a great suggestion for a dimarzio Super 3, that Phil Collen (Def Leppard) gets LP tones from his alder body Jackson.
A guy here by the name of Don Mare says he nailed the LP tone by doing the following: Blocked his trem, changed maple board to rosewood. Then in terms of pups, he used:
Neck: Jazz with A2 magnet
Bridge: Distortion Neck with A2 magnet.
I had a CC that replaced the APH II in my maple board strat. Good, but a one trick pony and too dark for my tastes.
The PATB-3 Blues trembucker is stated to do what you want.
In terms of the dimarzio line, the Air Zone and there was a great suggestion for a dimarzio Super 3, that Phil Collen (Def Leppard) gets LP tones from his alder body Jackson.
A guy here by the name of Don Mare says he nailed the LP tone by doing the following: Blocked his trem, changed maple board to rosewood. Then in terms of pups, he used:
Neck: Jazz with A2 magnet
Bridge: Distortion Neck with A2 magnet.
Hardtailed
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Re: Ok, let's cut to it: What bridge pickup will make my Strat sound like a LP?
Thanks for all the suggestions so far! And BTW, the maple fretboard stays
This is what I like the best on my Strat (feels so good), plus it's birdeye maple!
I think I'm gonna go with the Blues TB that some of you mentionned, I had completely forgot about that one. I've listened to the samples on the site and I like it's over character, but it's hard to say since they used a LP.
However, I had a TB-1 on a Yamaha Pacifica 120S (Tele alder body, H-H pickups) with no tone control and a 500k volume and the tone was just amazingly HUGE sounding. Sounded bigger than my LP (just had less "character" to it, but what do you expect from a 150$ guitar...). From the samples, the Blues TB seems to have a similar sound but with a slightly different personality that I prefer.
Before I buy, I'll give the Duncan Custom I have in another guitar a try (as soon as I can find a black H-S-S pickguard...). It's kind of "nasally" in that other guitar, but it's like a 8-piece basswood body with a cheap Floyd knock-off bridge so it's hard to compare.
Thanks for all the suggestions so far! And BTW, the maple fretboard stays
This is what I like the best on my Strat (feels so good), plus it's birdeye maple!
I think I'm gonna go with the Blues TB that some of you mentionned, I had completely forgot about that one. I've listened to the samples on the site and I like it's over character, but it's hard to say since they used a LP.
However, I had a TB-1 on a Yamaha Pacifica 120S (Tele alder body, H-H pickups) with no tone control and a 500k volume and the tone was just amazingly HUGE sounding. Sounded bigger than my LP (just had less "character" to it, but what do you expect from a 150$ guitar...). From the samples, the Blues TB seems to have a similar sound but with a slightly different personality that I prefer.
Before I buy, I'll give the Duncan Custom I have in another guitar a try (as soon as I can find a black H-S-S pickguard...). It's kind of "nasally" in that other guitar, but it's like a 8-piece basswood body with a cheap Floyd knock-off bridge so it's hard to compare.
WICKED LESTER
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Re: Ok, let's cut to it: What bridge pickup will make my Strat sound like a LP?
yes but the air version is more classic sounding and not as metal sounding
the air zone has the stuff to make a strat sound real close to a Lester
I play all lesters and always have and trust me i know many guys who like the tone of these bad boys but dont like the shape,weight,feel
so they play shred axes or a strat and pload them with a air zone or breed
the blues pup by duncan is sweet but it has a scooped mid range
and a strat needs mids to get a lesters fattness and that is where the air zone and breed pups shine, they fill in all the gaps of a strat :dance:
saladin said:
yes but the air version is more classic sounding and not as metal sounding
the air zone has the stuff to make a strat sound real close to a Lester
I play all lesters and always have and trust me i know many guys who like the tone of these bad boys but dont like the shape,weight,feel
so they play shred axes or a strat and pload them with a air zone or breed
the blues pup by duncan is sweet but it has a scooped mid range
and a strat needs mids to get a lesters fattness and that is where the air zone and breed pups shine, they fill in all the gaps of a strat :dance:
itbepopples
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Re: Ok, let's cut to it: What bridge pickup will make my Strat sound like a LP?
so what dmz are you saying would be good for truly fattenening up a strat. i have an am deluxe v neck strat with a fender dh-1 humbucker in the bridge and it sounds really thin. just more compression but no fattness.WICKED LESTER said:
WICKED LESTER
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Re: Ok, let's cut to it: What bridge pickup will make my Strat sound like a LP?
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/fg=102/g=home/search/detail/base_pid/302706/
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/fg=102/g=home/search/detail/base_id/36886
either of these will work wonders
itbepopples said:
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/fg=102/g=home/search/detail/base_pid/302706/
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/fg=102/g=home/search/detail/base_id/36886
either of these will work wonders
frankencat
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Re: Ok, let's cut to it: What bridge pickup will make my Strat sound like a LP?
I personally like the Pearly Gates (not PG+) in my Strats but if you want thicker and more output then a Custom or Custom Custom is what you want.
FWIW, I have been using buckers in Strats for almost 20 years and have tried all kinds including some Dimarzios. The coolest Dimarzio I tried was a Fred but it's not your average "PAF" sounding pickup no matter what they say. I have also used the Gibson 500T with great results and if I couldn't get Duncans for some reason I would use them again.
YMMV.
I personally like the Pearly Gates (not PG+) in my Strats but if you want thicker and more output then a Custom or Custom Custom is what you want.
FWIW, I have been using buckers in Strats for almost 20 years and have tried all kinds including some Dimarzios. The coolest Dimarzio I tried was a Fred but it's not your average "PAF" sounding pickup no matter what they say. I have also used the Gibson 500T with great results and if I couldn't get Duncans for some reason I would use them again.
YMMV.
Hardtailed
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Re: Ok, let's cut to it: What bridge pickup will make my Strat sound like a LP?
I'm kind of "afraid" of getting a Dimarzio! The only pickups I've liked since I've began playing 10 years ago were SDs and stock Gibsons (depending on the model). Plus, I always associated DMZ with Ibanez and I've never played an Ibanez I liked.
I am however concerned about the "scooped" nature of the Blues TB since my guitar is kind of scooped sounding by itself (ash body).
You know how when you plug a stock LP into a somehow thin sounding amp, it sounds like you've just added 4 additionnal cylinders to your Honda and removed the muffler? This is what I want, mucho low-mids but still keeping a good definition.
I'm kind of "afraid" of getting a Dimarzio! The only pickups I've liked since I've began playing 10 years ago were SDs and stock Gibsons (depending on the model). Plus, I always associated DMZ with Ibanez and I've never played an Ibanez I liked.
I am however concerned about the "scooped" nature of the Blues TB since my guitar is kind of scooped sounding by itself (ash body).
You know how when you plug a stock LP into a somehow thin sounding amp, it sounds like you've just added 4 additionnal cylinders to your Honda and removed the muffler? This is what I want, mucho low-mids but still keeping a good definition.
FretFire
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Re: Ok, let's cut to it: What bridge pickup will make my Strat sound like a LP?
That is just a stereotype really, DiMarzio has some very cool offerings. I consider most of their lineup to be more "modern" sounding than most of what Duncan offers for example, but they still have some great pieces.
Hardtailed said:
That is just a stereotype really, DiMarzio has some very cool offerings. I consider most of their lineup to be more "modern" sounding than most of what Duncan offers for example, but they still have some great pieces.
WICKED LESTER
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Re: Ok, let's cut to it: What bridge pickup will make my Strat sound like a LP?
OK then in duncan go with a CC or a PAtb-1 trembucker
both are fat and will fill in the gaps of any strat :burnout:
Hardtailed said:
OK then in duncan go with a CC or a PAtb-1 trembucker
both are fat and will fill in the gaps of any strat :burnout:
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Re: Ok, let's cut to it: What bridge pickup will make my Strat sound like a LP?
blues trembucker
blues trembucker
Hardtailed
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Re: Ok, let's cut to it: What bridge pickup will make my Strat sound like a LP?
Just for kick yesterday, since I couldn't locate a black H-S-S pickguard in time for tomorrow's gig, I installed a push/pull pot to get B+M in serie (at the same time I wired the 2nd tone control to act on the bridge pickup).
Well it certainly adds some low end, but it doesn't sound like a humbucker at all (I expected it to sound sorta like a Stag Mag, but it's nothing like the sample on this site). It's even kind of "quacky". Turning the tone down makes it more like a muddy humbucker. But I was playing through my PodXT with headphones. Can't wait to hear what it sounds like through the Marshall.
Strats are fun to mess with! Oh, and I found out the Lite Ash Stratocaster comes with 500k pots all around (nice pots I must say, although the switch is kinda cheap)
Just for kick yesterday, since I couldn't locate a black H-S-S pickguard in time for tomorrow's gig, I installed a push/pull pot to get B+M in serie (at the same time I wired the 2nd tone control to act on the bridge pickup).
Well it certainly adds some low end, but it doesn't sound like a humbucker at all (I expected it to sound sorta like a Stag Mag, but it's nothing like the sample on this site). It's even kind of "quacky". Turning the tone down makes it more like a muddy humbucker. But I was playing through my PodXT with headphones. Can't wait to hear what it sounds like through the Marshall.
Strats are fun to mess with! Oh, and I found out the Lite Ash Stratocaster comes with 500k pots all around (nice pots I must say, although the switch is kinda cheap)
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