Stratocasters just don't do metal!

[El Dunco]

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Serious?No!
Creative? Yess!
Copycat? No!
Individual? Yess!

It's not about playing guitar ,it's about creating music!:friday:

We create music for our enjoyment and I'm not even targeting you. I'm too busy having fun.

 

[rivera213]

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Strats do "classic" metal very well IMHO. As for thrash, death etc I'm not a fan, although Karl Sanders from Nile used strats for a period.

A strat with a humbucker (full size OR mini) in the bridge ISN'T a strat imo. It's like a GLP with a singlecoil in the neck- "WTF?".

I hate the rhythm tone on Yngwie's early albums but "Alchemy" had a heavy tone.

 

[Empty Pockets]

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i think jesus played his special brand of death metal on a ukulele.

 

[JohnnyGuitar]

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This thread just doesn't do metal.

 

[rashayritto]

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i consider myself a pretty good rhythm player and i notice a difference when playing my strat. its not as heavy despite having a ceramic monster in the bridge, and strat fanatics will tell you its the player's fault but i beg to differ. yeah you have to try harder on a strat but that is due to an inferior design. not saying thats a bad thing but as a player i believe a guitar that transfers the most energy between the body and strings is doing its job right. all that power and sustain? thats a more accurate return from my pick attack. i dont see how a guitar can be praised for taking your input energy and losing it somewhere in translation. thats just my experience and i have a strat strapped to me as i type this. can it do metal? you bet your ass but i feel cheated by the end result.

 

[Gamera]

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I know what you're saying but that energy isn't lost. Instead it's channeled into other tones and subtleties that become your challenge to identify and exploit.

 

[wanmei1]

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the only person i want to be like is Jesus

O.K. then.
Guys make a large wood cross... and I'll get some nails.
This is gunna' be fun. :naughty:

 

[jerryjg]

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for the 10 thousandth time, a Strat Cannot do Metal, if by "metal" you mean High-gain and black, death, Nu and other exteme metal.
Strats w/ stock and overwound pickups can do heavey metal up to and through the 80's .
Heck, a Gibson Les paul SG or Explorer or V isnt really even a metal guitar either they are too traditional..and cause a metal guitar has to *look* metal.Its has to look like a Jackson, ESP,High end Ibanez or some tripped out humbucker equipped transmogrified Gibson style axe.
If you arent hooked up with a true metal guitar, you may be playing metal allright, but it aint gonna fly; your gonna look like a dweeb..

 

[Empty Pockets]

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[jerryjg]

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[guitfiddle]

Re: Stratocasters just don't do metal!

A strat with a humbucker (full size OR mini) in the bridge ISN'T a strat imo. It's like a GLP with a singlecoil in the neck- "WTF?".

Made for at least 5 years before there were humbucker pickups in any guitar...

 

[rivera213]

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Yep, but I'm sure most would associate the classic GLP sound with PAF humbuckers. My friends who are Gibson nuts certainly do.

Warren Haynes = GLP imo.

 

[astrozombie]

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I play 'metal' with a Jazzmaster. A purple sparkly one at that.

So there.

i play metal with a Jaguar.

 

[astrozombie]

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I played at a dimebag tribute show with my telecaster.

i have no audio clips though, or video. (D'OH)

 

[guitfiddle]

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Yep, but I'm sure most would associate the classic GLP sound with PAF humbuckers. My friends who are Gibson nuts certainly do.

Warren Haynes = GLP imo.

See if you can find a copy of Les Dudek's record "Say No More". It'll make a believer out of you. He gets some great tone on that platter.

 

[Empty Pockets]

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those that decry the almighty P90 Les Paul neck sound are speaking from inexperience.

 

[El Dunco]

Re: Stratocasters just don't do metal!

for the 10 thousandth time, a Strat Cannot do Metal, if by "metal" you mean High-gain and black, death, Nu and other exteme metal.
Strats w/ stock and overwound pickups can do heavey metal up to and through the 80's .
Heck, a Gibson Les paul SG or Explorer or V isnt really even a metal guitar either they are too traditional..and cause a metal guitar has to *look* metal.Its has to look like a Jackson, ESP,High end Ibanez or some tripped out humbucker equipped transmogrified Gibson style axe.
If you arent hooked up with a true metal guitar, you may be playing metal allright, but it aint gonna fly; your gonna look like a dweeb..

People that play black metal can't afford good guitars and you see the nu-metal fa- I mean, 'guys' trying to look all 'pimp' using Les Pauls and PRSs. That clip was actually the first time the strat saw daylight in a while. It was weeping in it's case while I used my King V, flying V, Warlock and 7 string for metal, which is the punishment it gets for being chipped. I'm still kinda annoyed about that, it should have healed up by now. Maybe if I put a humbucker in it, the chip will heal up?

Sing for it perhaps?

 

[Johtosotku]

Re: Stratocasters just don't do metal!

for the 10 thousandth time, a Strat Cannot do Metal, if by "metal" you mean High-gain and black, death, Nu and other exteme metal.
Strats w/ stock and overwound pickups can do heavey metal up to and through the 80's .
Heck, a Gibson Les paul SG or Explorer or V isnt really even a metal guitar either they are too traditional..and cause a metal guitar has to *look* metal.Its has to look like a Jackson, ESP,High end Ibanez or some tripped out humbucker equipped transmogrified Gibson style axe.
If you arent hooked up with a true metal guitar, you may be playing metal allright, but it aint gonna fly; your gonna look like a dweeb..

People that play black metal can't afford good guitars

I was almost about to post some demos my black metal band has done but... let's pass on them. There can't be any good metal tones there and I obviously can't afford any good guitars.

 

[El Dunco]

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I was almost about to post some demos my black metal band has done but... let's pass on them. There can't be any good metal tones there and I obviously can't afford any good guitars.

Taking hyperbole to heart is not very metal or tr00.

 

[Empty Pockets]

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And if those recordings weren't done with Strats then it's off topic anyway.

KIRK HAMMETT!!!!