Quarter Pounder with cheese

[saladin]

I just put a QP in the bridge of my Tele and I'm loving it, so much I'm getting the neck version to match. My question is for the Strat players because I don't see many people using them. Just wondering if they sound as good as the Tele version. I want to keep my Strat sounding like a Strat but with bigger balls but not as big as a Hot Rails.

 

[PFDarkside]

Re: Quarter Pounder with cheese

...and how do they sound tapped in a Strat?

 

[Zhangliqun]

Re: Quarter Pounder with cheese

I had a tapped version in my Strat a couple of years ago. Full on (+/-14k), it's a pretty cool pickup but it has a little too much woof and not enough bite. I thought maybe the tap (at +/-7.0k) would fix that but it didn't. It sounded okay but not like a 7k Strat pickup.

In short, if you're looking for a P90 kind of sound from a Strat-size single coil, the Quarter Pounder will do the trick -- but it just doesn't give you a more traditional tone.

 

[Artie]

Re: Quarter Pounder with cheese

I agree, to a degree, with Zhangliqun. The QP, full-on, is humbucker-ish, without being exactly like a 'bucker. Tapped, its single-coil-ish, without being exactly like a single. I like my QP's, but not quite as much as when I first got them. I hadn't tried single-sized 'buckers then. I like the sc-sized 'buckers better now. (Vintage Rails, Cool Rails, Classic and Hot Stacks, etc.)

But I'm keeping the QP's. I think they'ld work cool in a 2-pup Cyclone-clone.

 

[Nite_Maresz_25]

Re: Quarter Pounder with cheese

where does the cheese part come from? You got a yellow pickguard or something?