Consensus on pulling stock single bridge pup on Left Handed Strat Player with tremolo, and dropping in a nickel plated Saturday Night Special. Doable? Advisable? What is the effect on the quality of the guitar? I’m looking to get a, what I’m calling an “Outlaw Grunge” sound. Example: Waylon plays Stone Temple Pilots, or vice versa.
Saturday Night Special
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devastone
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Re: Saturday Night Special
Welcome to the forum!
My thought is that it sounds like a fun mod. Get another pickguard, and it will be reversible. The SNS is a great pickup and we don't really have anyone here (that I know) who uses one in a Strat, so we'd all like to know how this sounds!
Welcome to the forum!
My thought is that it sounds like a fun mod. Get another pickguard, and it will be reversible. The SNS is a great pickup and we don't really have anyone here (that I know) who uses one in a Strat, so we'd all like to know how this sounds!
playas
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Re: Saturday Night Special
I gave this some thought but never saw a trembucker spaced SNS - although I´m more concerned about it looking odd in the guitar than soundwise.
I figured it might be roughly somewhere between a Seth and a JB, but I could be way off the mark there.
Anyone know what´s the neck on that guitar made of? Is it just roasted maple or something more exotic?
I gave this some thought but never saw a trembucker spaced SNS - although I´m more concerned about it looking odd in the guitar than soundwise.
I figured it might be roughly somewhere between a Seth and a JB, but I could be way off the mark there.
Anyone know what´s the neck on that guitar made of? Is it just roasted maple or something more exotic?
playas
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Re: Saturday Night Special
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Is it in some sort of strat style guitar and how do you like it...how do you find the eq?
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It's funny how these aftermarket pickups go. some models from SD, Dimarzio, and others were designed from the ground up with certain guitars in mind. the DiMarzio super distortion designed, I assume, really only with les pauls and Gibsons in mind, since at that time a humbucker in a strat really wasn't commonplace. Yet it's found its way into many a strat over the years - and the jury is still out in some regards if it's a good fit. the infamous JB/Jazz was supposedly designed with a tele in mind, and many to this day have tried those in teles, strats, les pauls, sg's, etc and with as many opinions on whether they're a good fit or not, or furthermore if they're not if that's due to the pot and cap combo, etc. And these are debates that have been going on longer than the internet.
I have a Saturday night special set in an SG, and I'll swear to my dying day that that pickup set - while great in its own right - seems to have been invented, not just with the SG in mind, but with MY SG in mind. Its a match made in heaven. I think that on any dual humbucker guitar, it would be a formidable pickup combo.
So back to your question, how would it be in a strat? it's such a new pickup by comparison to the others whose place in guitar A, B, or C would it sound good that the anecdotal answers will even be few and far between.
It seems to have been devised with a gibson-style guitar in mind, so how it'll fare in a Fender is a fair question. with all that in mind, we would have to rely on you for the answer, if you have the means and motive to do it. I'd love to hear your thoughts on it in a strat bridge, if it is financially feasible for you to do it. I think in a general sense, it's a great pickup, so I think it's worth the try. If you can get it in quickly and decide if you like it within the exchange period, too, is a current concern, and if the dealer you get it through can swap it for something else in that timeframe should you not like it, is a consideration.
Also, if you do or don't like it, would that have to do with what I assume are 250 pots/.022 cap (I think) currently on your strat. would you like it better with a 500k pot/.047 cap? or some other combo? sorry to muddy the waters even more, but even long-standing/old pickups have such hotly contested views on if they're "good" or not. and the newer ones have even less anecdotal experience that it's hard to say. If you can take the plunge and do it, I'd say it'd be worth trying and we're all eager to hear your thoughts.
but it won't increase the guitar's value at all, so if you can but a cheap pickguard that's HSS and hang onto the old pickup. If you hate the change, you would recoup the cost better selling the SNS again separately from the guitar.
It's funny how these aftermarket pickups go. some models from SD, Dimarzio, and others were designed from the ground up with certain guitars in mind. the DiMarzio super distortion designed, I assume, really only with les pauls and Gibsons in mind, since at that time a humbucker in a strat really wasn't commonplace. Yet it's found its way into many a strat over the years - and the jury is still out in some regards if it's a good fit. the infamous JB/Jazz was supposedly designed with a tele in mind, and many to this day have tried those in teles, strats, les pauls, sg's, etc and with as many opinions on whether they're a good fit or not, or furthermore if they're not if that's due to the pot and cap combo, etc. And these are debates that have been going on longer than the internet.
I have a Saturday night special set in an SG, and I'll swear to my dying day that that pickup set - while great in its own right - seems to have been invented, not just with the SG in mind, but with MY SG in mind. Its a match made in heaven. I think that on any dual humbucker guitar, it would be a formidable pickup combo.
So back to your question, how would it be in a strat? it's such a new pickup by comparison to the others whose place in guitar A, B, or C would it sound good that the anecdotal answers will even be few and far between.
It seems to have been devised with a gibson-style guitar in mind, so how it'll fare in a Fender is a fair question. with all that in mind, we would have to rely on you for the answer, if you have the means and motive to do it. I'd love to hear your thoughts on it in a strat bridge, if it is financially feasible for you to do it. I think in a general sense, it's a great pickup, so I think it's worth the try. If you can get it in quickly and decide if you like it within the exchange period, too, is a current concern, and if the dealer you get it through can swap it for something else in that timeframe should you not like it, is a consideration.
Also, if you do or don't like it, would that have to do with what I assume are 250 pots/.022 cap (I think) currently on your strat. would you like it better with a 500k pot/.047 cap? or some other combo? sorry to muddy the waters even more, but even long-standing/old pickups have such hotly contested views on if they're "good" or not. and the newer ones have even less anecdotal experience that it's hard to say. If you can take the plunge and do it, I'd say it'd be worth trying and we're all eager to hear your thoughts.
but it won't increase the guitar's value at all, so if you can but a cheap pickguard that's HSS and hang onto the old pickup. If you hate the change, you would recoup the cost better selling the SNS again separately from the guitar.
Ascension
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Re: Saturday Night Special
Yep both mine are Trembuckers in the bridge.
Here is the SNS set in my Carvin DC 300 through my PRS MT 15 live.
Yep both mine are Trembuckers in the bridge.
Here is the SNS set in my Carvin DC 300 through my PRS MT 15 live.
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Ascension
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Tell you one pickup that works great in a S/S/H set up is the Perpetual Burn. Have one in my Kiesel DC 135 with the stock AP11's neck and middle and that set up is fantastic. In particular the Split tone with the AP11 single in the middle is very nice.
Tell you one pickup that works great in a S/S/H set up is the Perpetual Burn. Have one in my Kiesel DC 135 with the stock AP11's neck and middle and that set up is fantastic. In particular the Split tone with the AP11 single in the middle is very nice.
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Ascension
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Re: Saturday Night Special
Why? Take it you have not noticed how many clips she has playing Modern Worship tunes like this up.
Why? Take it you have not noticed how many clips she has playing Modern Worship tunes like this up.
chadd
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Re: Saturday Night Special
I didn't hear too much of a difference with magnet swaps in the SNS. Enjoy it as it is.
I didn't hear too much of a difference with magnet swaps in the SNS. Enjoy it as it is.
I know this is a really late reply, but I've had the Saturday Night Special in my strat since somewhere around 2016 and it sounds unbelievably good in it. It's a Fender Stratocaster Deluxe from 2007 with a maple fretboard. Can't recommend it enough.
Ascension
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The SNS bridge was available as a Trembucker before the pandemic., Haven't been available since. Both my SNS sets have a trembucker in the bridge.
The SNS set is one of my favorite Humbucker sets. Very clear and articulate, they, have almost an acoustic quality when run together clean. They cut really well in a mix but will get nasty with gain and stay very articulate and clear. Closest thing I have heard to them from other companies is a set of Lambatones or Suhr Thornbuckers.
Duncan is really missing a marketing opportunity IMO by not marketing that set to the Worship guitar community. They work very, very well for the clear, articulate tones in modern worship, and that's a HUGE market. If you guys had someone like Bryan Wall with Worship Tutorials to do a positive review on the SNS set, you would sell a boatload of them!!
Here is a Worship Tutorial review. You guys might want to check out the numbers here, as this has video alone has over 200,000 views. Worship Tutorial has over 900,000 subscribers!
https://youtu.be/WxDHyNq-fbc?si=zhgiqE871QRNxz6P
