Strat advice

[chadd]

Re: Strat advice

Aha. Easily solved. ssl-1(or ssl2 if you need flat poles) in neck and middle and ssl-5 (or ssl6) in the bridge. Wire the bridge pup to the tone pot via the 5 way along with the middle pup. Sounds great if you are swapping from gibson to fender onstage. I know others have already suggested this config too, so im not trying to reinvent the wheel, but i can tell you that my strat sounds great with this configuration right alongside my gibsons when swapping onstage.

No need to replace the other two pickups, they sound fantastic, only looking to replace the bridge pickup. I usually run a master tone or one on the neck and one on the bridge. This particular strat has a master tone, though I rarely use it.

After much tweaking tonight, I think the QP is usable for now. We'll see how it goes through rehearsal Friday and the gig on Saturday.

 

[jeremy]

Re: Strat advice

the qp is pretty far from a typical strat pup. the sds1 is too. i have both and like em just fine but neither has much strat character. the ssl5 is about as hot as you can go and still have it sound sorta stratty

 

[Mincer]

Re: Strat advice

The SSL-5 (or -6) is certainly more Stratty than the QP. Any hotter than that, you either have to go with another style of pickup or accept that it will get darker.

 

[chadd]

Re: Strat advice

The SSL-5 (or -6) is certainly more Stratty than the QP. Any hotter than that, you either have to go with another style of pickup or accept that it will get darker.

I may give one of them a shot if the QP doesn't work out for the long term. The QP is hotter than I need and a little darker than I would prefer, though I will take that over an uncomfortable top end.

 

[jeremy]

Re: Strat advice

if you are switching from a lp to a strat and dont want to make eq changes the qp bridge might work out for ya

 

[dotsdad]

Re: Strat advice

I have a set of A3 pickups that I got online somewhere in one of my strats that I'm thinking of replacing and I'd like to get some suggestions. I'd like something hotter than vintage and not as likely to give me the icepick in the ears tone out of the bridge. I have another strat with a lil Demon, so I'd like to stay with something that sounds fairly strat-ish, though. I also use a Les Paul and use the strat for the stuff that the LP doesn't do well, jangly stuff like Low by Cracker or Say it Ain't So by Weezer, as well as fuzzy strat tones like Cherub Rock by Smashing Pumpkins. Noiseless would be cool, but not at the cost of character. Since I use the same amp for everything, it needs to have enough output to work with my Les Paul settings, without losing the strat character entirely.

Enough rambling, individual or set suggestions please?

Are your A3 pickups the modern Fender design with plastic bobbins? If so, you can remove the A3 polepieces and replace them with A5s for a hotter,slightly scooped sound, A2 for a fatter smoother sound, etc. Addiction FX is a good ebay seller - you can get them in sets. Its a Very easy and cheap tone change!!!

 

[chadd]

Re: Strat advice

Are your A3 pickups the modern Fender design with plastic bobbins? If so, you can remove the A3 polepieces and replace them with A5s for a hotter,slightly scooped sound, A2 for a fatter smoother sound, etc. Addiction FX is a good ebay seller - you can get them in sets. Its a Very easy and cheap tone change!!!

No, they are from a small company that I think was buying them from overseas. My best guess is that they were Tonerider Surfaris or very similar in specs.

 

[dotsdad]

Re: Strat advice

Hmm. I just looked at the Surfaris. Yep, not much you can do woth the mags.

I think you may have mentioned your guitar has a master tone, but you dont use it. How about connecting the tone knob just to the bridge pickup and leaving the neck and middle Pickups wide open?

 

[chadd]

Re: Strat advice

Hmm. I just looked at the Surfaris. Yep, not much you can do woth the mags.

I think you may have mentioned your guitar has a master tone, but you dont use it. How about connecting the tone knob just to the bridge pickup and leaving the neck and middle Pickups wide open?

Turning down the tone doesn't get me where I want to be, hooking it only up to the bridge won't change that.

 

[dotsdad]

Re: Strat advice

How about an STK-S6. It is the noiseless version of the SSL5. Still Stratty but with beefed up mids. And its quiter than your LP pickups, so you can set the gain to stun. You can split it to kill the dummy coil. When you cut it and combine it with your RWRP SSL middle it will be silent and will also quack like a duck in heat.