Strats are soulless and sterile

[Olds442]

Check out the size of the Ibanez Super Tap Six slugs and it had twice the windings of a Fender.

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and a nice brass bridge with brass saddles. yum.

I DESTROYED the Philly chumps with get this-Noiseless SCN bridge pickup through a POS SS Fender Champion 100. Most were playing Lesters through half-stacks-what did they lack? Talent! The proof.

a champion 100?

dude.

 

[Tim Fezziwig]

and a nice brass bridge with brass saddles. yum.

a champion 100?

dude.

O, yes- when I came back in 2014 after a 7 year layoff- I blew up two studio Champions in our first two practices!

She was not happy-"What did you do?
"Lady, I played MEAN."

So, I had a 1969 Ampeg Vt22 -NO WAY I WAS CARRYING THAT BEAST- so, I bought JUNK SS Champion for $300-which I KILLED in a year- I did by a "plan" - my amps take beatings. I used that for 4 more years-until I bought tons of amps and sold it. I used clean channel and a FUZZ. No worries. My "juice" made my JUNK amp louder than others Mesas+Marshalls? All in the SOUL. Now, I have a MEAN Fender Deville running EL84's- my "young " members carry it for me. I come from a POETRY background-I'm used to NOTHING but a mic-so give me ANY AMP/GUITAR and I will shine. Yes, I'm that good.

 

[CB91710]

I’d have to partially agree but playing any rhythm on most Lester bridge pickups is the worst sounding shit on the planet....

Overwound single coils at bridge on a Strat helps.... I love spanky but hate ice pick.

I actually like the middle pickup on a Strat... evidently Clapton does too...

Ice pick goes away when you flush them to the pickguard.
I've got Texas Specials on my American Special.
Plugged it in and thought "That's not SRV!"
Ya... the pickups were wound to what SRV thought they were, but "#1" was actually a bit underwound.
But dropped down to double "normal", they sound good and won't drive a spike through your skull.

 

[TheX]

Some folks just ain’t cultured...not nary bit....

Y'all don't want to know what 'bama cultured actually is.

 

[MikeyTheCat]

and a nice brass bridge with brass saddles. yum.

And a brass block. The freaking thing weighed almost as much as the Deluxe I had.

 

[Tim Fezziwig]

I like Murray and Fast Eddie but, I would like to hear them on a "proper" Strat-bucks do seem like cheating.

 

[JTM45]

 

[BigJim]

I need to have a strat around, one of my bands plays a lot of different older funk songs and I need that 2nd/4th position to get that tone.

I hate it, its just a fight as soon as I pick it up. Scale and feel aren't right, the middle pickup is in the way, when I "get into it", I always whack the switch all the way back. I pick it up to noodle around, SRV comes out. The bridge pickup is useless too...

 

[Oldskoolrob]

Strat is just a flashy Tele. Tele is just a canoe paddle you can play country music on.

 

[Jymbopalyse]

A plank is a plank.

 

[TheX]

A plank is a plank.

This is a plank. bolt neck and no carve. One hell of a guitar.

 

[brianbzed]

Not really, but... everybody now sounds the same on them.

Some of my favorite guitar players used Strats on some of my favorite solos and they sound fantastic. I tried to get into the Strat sound but the closest I came was an Ibanez with really hot Thick single coils that were more akin to P90s that Strat.

All these guys have a great Strat sound but don’t thankfully come close to Hendrix/SRV/Clapton tones should be banned given that those guys own them.

And of course there is Jeff Beck and Dick Dale and others who made Strats sound great.

But every damn time I’m in the music store and some guy plugs in a Strat it is Hendrix or SRV. Are those just the easiest tones to get from a Strat or just what Strat players know?

Had the opportunity to play a couple of vintage Strats ( a '57 and a '62, both stock w/pro setups ) back in the 90's. Both incredible tone monsters-Leo got it right the first time! Anyone with appreciable skill would sound like a GOD on those. That was my limited experience on vintage Fender instruments. Every other 70's,80's and 90's Strat I played sounded "vanilla" and "generic." Don't get me wrong, I like Stratocasters and have owned 4 over the past 40 years. It takes work to play them, I guess that's why only the best players are instantly recognizable using them?

 

[CB91710]

I need to have a strat around, one of my bands plays a lot of different older funk songs and I need that 2nd/4th position to get that tone.

I hate it, its just a fight as soon as I pick it up. Scale and feel aren't right, the middle pickup is in the way, when I "get into it", I always whack the switch all the way back. I pick it up to noodle around, SRV comes out. The bridge pickup is useless too...

Warmoth makes conversion necks to pull the Strat down to 24.75"

 

[Olds442]

Warmoth makes conversion necks to pull the Strat down to 24.75"

as well as the nut width at gibby spec.

 

[NotScott]

That long scale is a big part of what makes a Strat sound like a Strat. If you are not into the Strat sound, there are lots of other guitars out there.

 

[Jymbopalyse]

This is a plank. bolt neck and no carve. One hell of a guitar.

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She looks like a beauty. (yes I gender assumed)
Bet it plays nice. Love that dark neck

My comment wasn't really meant as an insult to guitars that are planks.
A plank is a plank.
But If it is sterile and soulless . . . look no further then the user.

 

[Haprom]

My all Time Favorite Guitar Player... Uli Roth... Sterile or Soulless? You Be The Judge...

!

 

[NotScott]

My all Time Favorite Guitar Player... Uli Roth... Sterile or Soulless? You Be The Judge...

!

Uli is one of the greatest guitar players that nobody knows.

 

[TheX]

Love that dark neck

I bought it because it's the only one I've seen with a rosewood neck. It is a hell of a guitar.

 

[MikeyTheCat]

My all Time Favorite Guitar Player... Uli Roth... Sterile or Soulless? You Be The Judge...

!

Nope, no soul and sterile. Everybody knows that about CBS Strats and Norlin Les Pauls. I think the tonz would leak out the micro-tilt hole which would leave players having to stick toothpicks in it as plugs.