You can have enough... but too many?

[MikeS]

I have been jonesing for a 3 single coil strat like you wouldn't believe. Sure I have a strat copy already, but it's as far removed from "strat" tone as you can get in a strat. After playing a buddy's strat recently and listening to the likes of SRV and Clapton a lot lately, I've been wanting to pick one up.

Eh, typical case of GAS you could say. This might warrant a trip up to GC tonight. My credit card hasn't been abused lately, it's probably getting bored.

Sure, I already have 3 working electrics and two on-going electric projects, so one could say I have enough, but can you ever have too many? Is a player's collection ever complete without a classic strat?

 

[gordon_39422]

Re: You can have enough... but too many?

If that is your "strat" in your avatar, I'd say that with EMG's you are right.... that is as far removed from strat tone as you can get.

However, I love the feel of a strat so much, that if I ever feel the need for a metal monster, I will mod a strat with pups suited for that style of music.

BTW, that is a nice looking body on the "strat"

Allen

 

[Tony_H]

Re: You can have enough... but too many?

I know I can have too many. Like ... I wanted to try all sorts of guitars so I got some cheap copies until I had too many. And I ran out of money so I sold most of the cheapos along with a real good one (my LP Studio). Then I had like 6 guitars for a year, and then it started all over again. Now I have about 10 electrics, an acoustic, a bass and two lap steels.

If you want to have a collection of guitars to cover various sounds, I think you definitely need a proper Strat. I wanted one to be able to get those Strat sounds, and there's no other guitar that can do them. So to me it makes sense to get a proper good Strat.

I am a bad case of GAS, but I think having a good specimen of every major guitar type makes sense. A LP-style, a Strat-style, a Tele-style, a guitar with the P-90-style pickups, a semi-hollow body, one with a Floyd Rose trem for those wild whammy tricks ... and then maybe some sort of "pawnshop special" for a really kinky sound.

 

[MikeS]

Re: You can have enough... but too many?

BTW, that is a nice looking body on the "strat"

Allen

Thanks, but that's the Ibanez RG project that will probably never be finished... EMGs with a Wilkinson. The body is a piece of junk behind that new top. I'm just not the metal head I once was, so it's likely not to get much playing time once it's finished anyway.

My strat copy is the Aria STG-004 listed in my sig. Demon, VR, CR.

 

[That90'sGuy]

Re: You can have enough... but too many?

I'm playing in a cover band now so I need a setup that'll be versatile. I need the jangle of a strat and I need to cut through with distortion with it comes to rock material. That's why I like superstrats the best, they can do everything well. The humbucker won't be quite as authoritative in a super strat as on a Les Paul (body weight and woods differences), but tell that to people like EVH.

Given a person's individual tastes, they might find they don't need "everything", but a few guitars certainly help. I have 4 guitars and all 4 have their own use (one in standard, one in alternate, one half step down, one full step down).

I wouldn't mind a good 335 guitar or two, strat and les paul, but I can get by with pretty much just a strat. I won't have the sound of a Rickenbacker, Jerry Jones sitar or a P90 equipped guitar, but those were never really "my" type of tones to begin with.