STK-S2 Hot Stack for Strat vs STK-S9 Hot Stack Plus

[jmcorey]

I play lots of diverse music, but mostly with a rock flavor, and I am going to take a 2HB strat with a pool route back to SSS. But like my pickups to have some oomph, and I despise noise, so I am thinking of some noiseless Duncan strat pickups.

To begin with, I am a big fan of Trevor Rabin in the setting of Yes' 90125. He was running a set of STK-S2s, which sound great.

But I had some old STK-S1s classic stacks. Nice and clean and noiseless, but their quack was poor, so I sold them. I am concerned that the STK-S2s will also quack poorly.


So, an alternative might be the STK-S9 Hot Stack plus. Might quack better, although on the Duncan YouTube channel, I think I like the sound of the old S2s better than the newer S9s.

So what to do?

 

[jeremy]

Re: STK-S2 Hot Stack for Strat vs STK-S9 Hot Stack Plus

none of those are gonna quack too hard. too much output and mid range

 

[jmcorey]

Re: STK-S2 Hot Stack for Strat vs STK-S9 Hot Stack Plus

So hotter strat pickups with more midrange- by definition - do not quack as well?

 

[elelpe]

Re: STK-S2 Hot Stack for Strat vs STK-S9 Hot Stack Plus

If you want more quack, going with hotter start pickup is a wrong direction. Poorer quack. And STK-S9 is the tubbiest of them all.

 

[Mincer]

Re: STK-S2 Hot Stack for Strat vs STK-S9 Hot Stack Plus

Trevor Rabin! His last solo album was magnificent. I've always veen a fan. He always had an amazing tone, and he seems to get it no matter what guitar he plays- his Strat, his Alverez, his Washburn or his Gibson Barney Kessel. There is certainly lots of compression on the old Yes stuff, and he absolutely gets some quack on his Strat.
You can always set your stacks to split with a switch to get quackier. But what a brilliant player:

 

[jmcorey]

Re: STK-S2 Hot Stack for Strat vs STK-S9 Hot Stack Plus

Trevor Rabin! His last solo album was magnificent. I've always veen a fan. He always had an amazing tone, and he seems to get it no matter what guitar he plays- his Strat, his Alverez, his Washburn or his Gibson Barney Kessel. There is certainly lots of compression on the old Yes stuff, and he absolutely gets some quack on his Strat.
You can always set your stacks to split with a switch to get quackier. But what a brilliant player.

Good. Glad you like him. Do you have any more info regarding what you mean by splitting the stacks to get quackier? Would not this give you more hum? Do they make a middle stack RWRP to get noise reduction if you split the pickup?

 

[jeremy]

Re: STK-S2 Hot Stack for Strat vs STK-S9 Hot Stack Plus

the classic stack plus middle is rw/rp

 

[jmcorey]

Re: STK-S2 Hot Stack for Strat vs STK-S9 Hot Stack Plus

the classic stack plus middle is rw/rp

Do they do this with the hot stack?

 

[Mincer]

Re: STK-S2 Hot Stack for Strat vs STK-S9 Hot Stack Plus

Yes, splitting would bring the hum back.