Thin sounding bridge in strat?

[Wattage]

Re: Thin sounding bridge in strat?

How is the guitar acoustically? A bad fit between the neck and the body can kill a Strat's sound.

 

[JumpMarine]

Re: Thin sounding bridge in strat?

It's actually quite loud acoustically, but starts to thin out when fretting above the 12th. Other strats that I've played didn't have this issue above the 12th fret. I've had the neck off before and it has a nice tight/solid fit in the pocket and the thiness issue has been there since the day I got it. I didn't recognize the issue, for what it was, until much later on. The body doesn't resonant any where near what my old R7, but then I don't expect it to(it's hard going backwards when I had a pure gem of a guitar before).

 

[tubeman87]

Re: Thin sounding bridge in strat?

The bridge is locked down with 5 springs and is nearly the same mass weight as the Callaham. It's a big MIJ single piece bridge/block unit from the 80's. And I'm using 10's.

You might what to add the callaham block along with the 5 springs I have that in my strat. Granted I still think that my strat sounds weak in the bridge but it might be what your looking for.

 

[Wattage]

Re: Thin sounding bridge in strat?

I'd find someone who is aces at setting up Strat's and spend sometime swith them tweaking it. It may just be a bad setup. Sometimes shiming a Strat neck can make a huge difference in the sound, that little bit of angle can be quite noticeable.

 

[Kelsey]

Re: Thin sounding bridge in strat?

My favorite way of thickening up a Strat bridge pickup is with a good boost or OD pedal -- my locally made LPB clone and the Xotic BB Preamp through my Bad Cat Cub, either alone or cascaded, will yield thick and meaty Strat bridge tones. However, my two Fender CS Strats with normal output bridge pickups sound bigger and fatter than my Hotrodded American Series Strat with an SD Antiquity I Custom bridge, so I think neck and body wood and perhaps hardware make very significant contributions to the tone.

 

[danglybanger]

Re: Thin sounding bridge in strat?

TRUE STORY:

Mustangs are beefier than strats. All the single coil goodness, without the thinness

 

[tone?]

Re: Thin sounding bridge in strat?

It sounds to me like it's the wood itself. I have my Brobucker in a alder body Strat with a maple neck and maple board. It's anything but thin. Granted, the neck is a heck of a lot thicker than yours (Boat contour from Warmoth) and the body has a thin natural finish (Chandler body), but still, wood is wood.

Darn! that neck is definately the reason the guitar is probably fat sounding! thats a huge neck!
Imagine how thick it would be with that same contour but with a rosewood board!

How heavy is that Strat ERik?? I am starting to assume that a thicker sounding guitar has alot to do with a thicker neck.

 

[ErikH]

Re: Thin sounding bridge in strat?

Darn! that neck is definately the reason the guitar is probably fat sounding! thats a huge neck!
Imagine how thick it would be with that same contour but with a rosewood board!

How heavy is that Strat ERik?? I am starting to assume that a thicker sounding guitar has alot to do with a thicker neck.

Hehehe, yeah, it's a baseball bat for sure. I love it though. Fits me like a glove.

That particular guitar weighs 6.5 lbs. It's the lightest of all my guitars.

 

[Jeff_H]

Re: Thin sounding bridge in strat?

Try a PATB-1. Your problems will be over.