Listening to their live recordings, it seems to me that both Jimi Hendrix and SRV used to whack the PU switch down to screech setting sometimes, mebbe during a "substance-happy" moment? Sends me lunging for the volume control, that.... Calmer folk like Beck, Clapton and E. Johnson now have tone controls wired to the little devil.Only C+W twangers and hillbillies use the bridge PU...
jackthehack said:Classic Strat Tone = Alder body + Maple neck + neck and mid PUs
Only C+W twangers and hillbillies use the bridge PU; may as well swap it out with something that sounds COMPLETELY different, like a Rio Grande Dirty Harry or an SD Lil' 59 or JBJr....
RLW said:The Dual Calibrated is the set I have in my swamp ash Strat, and I'm extremely happy with them. Would never consider changing them for anything else.
jackthehack said:Classic Strat Tone = Alder body + Maple neck + neck and mid PUs
Only C+W twangers and hillbillies use the bridge PU; may as well swap it out with something that sounds COMPLETELY different, like a Rio Grande Dirty Harry or an SD Lil' 59 or JBJr....