Super distortion or hot rails for woman tone

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poundthecheddar

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I have a strat with a lace sensor gold on the neck for a strat sound, but I am wondering if a super distortion or a hot rails in the bridge might get me into that sunshine of your love tone if I roll off the tone all the way?

What say ya'll?
 
Re: Super distortion or hot rails for woman tone

I'm surprised this thread isn't about Iron Maiden as Dave Murray used both.

Those 2 pickups aren't the first to come to mind when I think of the "Sunshine of your Love" tone, which I attribute more to the amps and pedals. Clapton used old school traditional humbuckers rather than high output single coil sized ones, so I'm hesitant to recommend anything.

What amps and pedals are you using? And what pickup is in your strat's bridge position now?
 
Re: Super distortion or hot rails for woman tone

I don't have any pickup in the bridge of my strat at the moment, and I will be playing through a peavey delta blues with boss DS-1 modded by Robert Keeley to get my distortion
 
Re: Super distortion or hot rails for woman tone

The woman tone is really more meant to describe Claptons' Cream era neck pickup tone, not the bridge. I believe he rolled the tone down and sometimes had a wah cocked to still have some highs. Anyway, for your options, I'd go super distortion. Its warmer and thicker. I had a super d in the bridge of my SG for years and I have a hot rails in the neck of an old Ibanez. I hear more highs out of the hot rails, and at times a single coil like tone. Of course, they're totally different guitars and different positions. EC from the bluesbreakers and Cream is my all time favorite guitar player. Gibson and marshall all the way.
 
Re: Super distortion or hot rails for woman tone

Both of these are among the worst choices. The formula for this sound is a PAF style neck pickup in a shorter scale mahogany body with the tone knob rolled down into a cranked tube amp. You'd at least need a lower output bridge pickup than what you have chosen, and still you'd be missing a lot of the formula.
 
Re: Super distortion or hot rails for woman tone

A cranked up jtm, some greenbacks in a quad and some vintage style pafs should get you close.

Super D or Hotrails? no.....

unless you have the cranked up jtm and at least a quad of greenbacks.

If you do that you'll get close. But a vintage style paf will get you closer.


Meh....maybe we should ask eric what he reckons....
 
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Re: Super distortion or hot rails for woman tone

This question is not worthy of an explanation why NOT.

Let's suggest WHAT


I actually used a Custom Custom in the bridge of a Les Paul to great effect for this tone
 
Re: Super distortion or hot rails for woman tone

lol yeah. except the woman tone uses the neck pickup. that will be a bit of a stumbling block for the OP.
 
Re: Super distortion or hot rails for woman tone

Wouldn't a lil' 59 be a better option? During that era Clapton used PAF equipped Gibsons, he usually rolled down the tone to 3-4 to get that warm, round tone.
 
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