Swimming Pool Route tone?

[ItsaBass]

Re: Swimming Pool Route tone?

^ I can't say, as I don't think my pick hits the guard...at least not in the area that's routed away. My pickguard scratches tend to be located on either side of the strings, or on the pickup covers. It would make sense that the tone of the click is different. The pickguard is a fairly large uninterrupted area of "drum head" with a swimming pool rout.

 

[Mincer]

Re: Swimming Pool Route tone?

My pick never hits the guard, either. But generally the SPR is on cheaper models, so there are other factors (hardware/pickups/etc) that contribute to the sound difference. I wonder, though...on a well-made guitar out of nice wood...does a chambered strat (with lots of little sound holes under a figured top) sound close to a SPR? I never compared them.

 

[Jacew]

Re: Swimming Pool Route tone?

Am I the only one that notices the pick click when it hits the guard?

Granted I don’t think it affects the plugged in tone.

I don't think my pick ever hits the guard either. How do you play to get that happen?

Wouldn't you need to hold the pick from very back of the blunt side to have it far enough to do that? which would make accuracy difficult?

 

[PFDarkside]

Re: Swimming Pool Route tone?

My pick never hits the guard, either. But generally the SPR is on cheaper models, so there are other factors (hardware/pickups/etc) that contribute to the sound difference. I wonder, though...on a well-made guitar out of nice wood...does a chambered strat (with lots of little sound holes under a figured top) sound close to a SPR? I never compared them.

I don't think my pick ever hits the guard either. How do you play to get that happen?

Wouldn't you need to hold the pick from very back of the blunt side to have it far enough to do that? which would make accuracy difficult?

It’s on my 94 Deluxe Plus Strat. I can’t explain, compared to my Deluxe Player (MIM), American Standard Body, AVRI and sig models with smaller routes it just sounds different. Even typing this is sounds silly. A part of it may have been the strange “Fender Floyd Rose” bridge and heavy poly finish.

 

[JB_From_Hell]

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Anybody know when they quit using the SP on the USA models?

 

[Nagisa]

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I wish they all could be Cali..pool routes..

 

[Adieu]

Re: Swimming Pool Route tone?

Ibanez once claimed in their 80s catalogs that they INTENTIONALLY did a swimming pool rout in a 1H signature for some guy, supposedly in their quest for a specific tone

They memorably called it a "specially constructed sound hole", which may or may not be true but certainly cracked me up. Chances are, they either experimented with bodies to see what they could repurpose from their existing production lines, or simply knocked off a copy of whatever favorite strat the guy was using already


Ahh here:




PS although i found that hella funny, come to think of it two if the more interesting strats ive owned --- a charvel-fernandes mutt partscaster and a 90s Fender AmStd leftie I bought for $325 on a whim --- had SPRs

 

[Mincer]

Re: Swimming Pool Route tone?

Ha! I hadn't seen that ad. Allan probably never really used that guitar- although there was something close to it on his Road Games tour. But Allan used tons of different instruments over the years, and his style sort of transcends any design- he always sounds exactly like him.

 

[Adieu]

Re: Swimming Pool Route tone?

Ha! I hadn't seen that ad. Allan probably never really used that guitar- although there was something close to it on his Road Games tour. But Allan used tons of different instruments over the years, and his style sort of transcends any design- he always sounds exactly like him.

That ad is well-sprinkled with bull guano, though

The "much narrower than an ordinary guitar 53mm pitch" approximately matches my old ESP's OFR, and is wider than the 50-ish mm pitch on a tunamatic on an old rebadged Ibanez 2393... although a probably-fender-japan 6 screw vintage style trem I have is spaced 56.5ish

Hmmm, bit off-topic, but does that mean OFR's shouldnt use Fspaced pups???