Shaolindelt
New member
I am new here and I’m combing through the forums now, but figured I’d have some specific questions that might be worth its own thread. So, this is definitely in the upgrade/advice thread. I’ll try to be clear and any advice is welcome!
First - I have a Squier Standard Strat (Cherry Sunburst) I picked up used. First guitar, and I love the feel. The guitar was setup well when I got it, low action, intonated, and holds its tuning quite well.
I’m an advanced beginner guitarist, have mainly focused on my guitar playing for a few years and now just starting to look at the technical side and kind of want to play around a bit and learn more. I have a Fender Mustang GT amp and love the modeling features as its helping to teach me a lot about pedals and amps I’d like to get in the future.
I have a PRS Angelus acoustic and would like to add some more electrics at some point down the line. Specifically, I’d like to pick up a Les Paul style, an HSS Strat and probably an MIA Strat (SSS) just because. I’ve played some $1000+ guitars and liked them, but I will say, I like the feel of my Squier and would like to keep it around anyway as my “first” as I think it’s a solid guitar.
However, I would like to upgrade it and learn more about everything involved in it so when I get to the MIA Strat I can make better decisions and upgrades.
I won’t be selling this guitar off, so not too worried about resale but rather using this as a place to play and learn.
Some concerns I’d like addressed - pickups just seem meh - would like something richer. Tone/volume controls seem to make big jumps rather than letting me dial in so will be looking at swapping those out to some decent 250k pots. Longer sustains would also be nice but that might be more the amp side of things.
As for tone/style of play - I love the clean tones of the Strat. Mayer, Gilmour, SRV are some influences and styles - blues, pop type sounds, and the blues jr amp is a fun one I’ve gotten to play with. Any upgrades to this guitar I’d like in that realm but I also would like to keep this guitar fairly versatile. I don’t use a lot of drive usually, but may be adding more in the future
So my thoughts are I’d like to kind of get an idea of where to start and what’s worth it. Any suggestions are welcomed as for what I maybe should look at and where to buy. I definitely want to stay with all single coil, but open to ideas of what might be worth wiring in here. Thought about Tex Mex, but curious about other ideas and thoughts and some Seymour Duncan’s. Received one idea of some SSL-2s for neck and middle (reverse wound) and an SSL-6 at the bridge but looking for additional ideas.
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First - I have a Squier Standard Strat (Cherry Sunburst) I picked up used. First guitar, and I love the feel. The guitar was setup well when I got it, low action, intonated, and holds its tuning quite well.
I’m an advanced beginner guitarist, have mainly focused on my guitar playing for a few years and now just starting to look at the technical side and kind of want to play around a bit and learn more. I have a Fender Mustang GT amp and love the modeling features as its helping to teach me a lot about pedals and amps I’d like to get in the future.
I have a PRS Angelus acoustic and would like to add some more electrics at some point down the line. Specifically, I’d like to pick up a Les Paul style, an HSS Strat and probably an MIA Strat (SSS) just because. I’ve played some $1000+ guitars and liked them, but I will say, I like the feel of my Squier and would like to keep it around anyway as my “first” as I think it’s a solid guitar.
However, I would like to upgrade it and learn more about everything involved in it so when I get to the MIA Strat I can make better decisions and upgrades.
I won’t be selling this guitar off, so not too worried about resale but rather using this as a place to play and learn.Some concerns I’d like addressed - pickups just seem meh - would like something richer. Tone/volume controls seem to make big jumps rather than letting me dial in so will be looking at swapping those out to some decent 250k pots. Longer sustains would also be nice but that might be more the amp side of things.
As for tone/style of play - I love the clean tones of the Strat. Mayer, Gilmour, SRV are some influences and styles - blues, pop type sounds, and the blues jr amp is a fun one I’ve gotten to play with. Any upgrades to this guitar I’d like in that realm but I also would like to keep this guitar fairly versatile. I don’t use a lot of drive usually, but may be adding more in the future
So my thoughts are I’d like to kind of get an idea of where to start and what’s worth it. Any suggestions are welcomed as for what I maybe should look at and where to buy. I definitely want to stay with all single coil, but open to ideas of what might be worth wiring in here. Thought about Tex Mex, but curious about other ideas and thoughts and some Seymour Duncan’s. Received one idea of some SSL-2s for neck and middle (reverse wound) and an SSL-6 at the bridge but looking for additional ideas.
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