Gunny47
New member
Some of these may sound noob-ish, I'm going to share them anyway because they helped me so far.
- Strat vintage style bridge pickup - for the most part, these things are too trebly, too thin, not desireable, people usually put in a higher wound one like a 9.8K or one with Alnico II mags. Well, after getting a good setting on my amp that satisfied all three pickup spots as best as possible, the bridge pickup on my strat (stock custom 50s wirings) still sounded a TAD too bright and nasty. Then I accidently hit the volume knob a TINY bit down and it rolled off the nasty highs and did not kill the volume. So if you have an urge to hit that bridge pickup but it is slightly too bright for you but you like the udnerwounded tone of it, just hit that volume knob back a number.
- My tremolo situation - The way I had it, the 6 screw vintage type trem on my strat, the outer two screws were slightly up and the middle four were screwed all the way down. That I realized a few days ago after reading some forum stuff was the opposite of what is usual. So I put it in the normal way (outer 2 pretty much screwed all the way down, middle four slightly up) and I found it allievated much of the tension and I was able to slide the 5th trem spring on the back (I always wondered why I could only have 4 and guys on the forum and SRV were able to put 5 on and use the vibrato...:15::boggled
Then with the 5 springs on, my bridge was *truely* flush to the body and I got a fatter, warmer tone, especially out of the bridge pickup - WHAT a difference! Not as buzzy or just crappy. And I still had essentially perfect tuning stability I had before. (BTW I did not make the bridge adjustments to get a fatter tone, I just did it because my vibrato was acting up[ and when I broke a string everythign else went out of tune, so now that is fixed)
- String Trees - In my case, every time I used the whammy bar, the e and b strings would get caught in the tree and go way sharp. To get rid of that I simply adjusted the nut (made sure all the strings went through and did not get caught in there) and just put the strings over the darn tree. Now it is fine, and I unscrewed the tree off and now it looks cool hehe!
- Nut sauce - This stuff does wonders if you dont have it, buy some!
*out of breath* :nervous::1:
- Strat vintage style bridge pickup - for the most part, these things are too trebly, too thin, not desireable, people usually put in a higher wound one like a 9.8K or one with Alnico II mags. Well, after getting a good setting on my amp that satisfied all three pickup spots as best as possible, the bridge pickup on my strat (stock custom 50s wirings) still sounded a TAD too bright and nasty. Then I accidently hit the volume knob a TINY bit down and it rolled off the nasty highs and did not kill the volume. So if you have an urge to hit that bridge pickup but it is slightly too bright for you but you like the udnerwounded tone of it, just hit that volume knob back a number.
- My tremolo situation - The way I had it, the 6 screw vintage type trem on my strat, the outer two screws were slightly up and the middle four were screwed all the way down. That I realized a few days ago after reading some forum stuff was the opposite of what is usual. So I put it in the normal way (outer 2 pretty much screwed all the way down, middle four slightly up) and I found it allievated much of the tension and I was able to slide the 5th trem spring on the back (I always wondered why I could only have 4 and guys on the forum and SRV were able to put 5 on and use the vibrato...:15::boggled
Then with the 5 springs on, my bridge was *truely* flush to the body and I got a fatter, warmer tone, especially out of the bridge pickup - WHAT a difference! Not as buzzy or just crappy. And I still had essentially perfect tuning stability I had before. (BTW I did not make the bridge adjustments to get a fatter tone, I just did it because my vibrato was acting up[ and when I broke a string everythign else went out of tune, so now that is fixed)
- String Trees - In my case, every time I used the whammy bar, the e and b strings would get caught in the tree and go way sharp. To get rid of that I simply adjusted the nut (made sure all the strings went through and did not get caught in there) and just put the strings over the darn tree. Now it is fine, and I unscrewed the tree off and now it looks cool hehe!
- Nut sauce - This stuff does wonders if you dont have it, buy some!
*out of breath* :nervous::1:
