Strat single coils
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I have this wonderful fantasy where Larry DiMarzio, Bill Lawrence, Greg Kinman, Jason Lollar, Seymour Duncan, Lindy Fralin and a few other experts are led into a room with a stackful of different Strats and a guy in a gorilla suit (with bare hands though) picks up each Strat and plays Stairway to Smoke on the Sweet Child's Tush - and it's each maker's job to identify their own pickups!
Like I said, just a fantasy. As long as these guys are basically assured that you're going to end up with a shoebox full of a sprinkling of pickups from all of them, who could care less? The concept that you could hook up a frequency analyzer, feed a consistent magnetic signal into a group of test pickups, measure the output across the audible range and publish the results - why would a guitar magazine bother? Especially when they can get each and every pickup maker to fight for more ad space in their magazines? If there's any difference at all between this and the 300 or so most popular different religions (yep, yours too) I wanna know.
Like I said, just a fantasy. As long as these guys are basically assured that you're going to end up with a shoebox full of a sprinkling of pickups from all of them, who could care less? The concept that you could hook up a frequency analyzer, feed a consistent magnetic signal into a group of test pickups, measure the output across the audible range and publish the results - why would a guitar magazine bother? Especially when they can get each and every pickup maker to fight for more ad space in their magazines? If there's any difference at all between this and the 300 or so most popular different religions (yep, yours too) I wanna know.
Cagey
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Y'know what's funny? Speaking of frequency/waveform analyzers, the state of the art has advanced to the point where the Axe FX II can be fed a guitar signal from nearly any source, after which you feed it a signal from your own guitar, and it somehow figures out the delta and duplicates it. So, if you think you'd like Lollars in a Strat but have DiMarzios in yours, you just grab a Strat with Lollars in it and snatch its tone. I've heard it. It's absolutely magical. Guys are grabbing all sorts of tones from famous players that they could never get before.
Of course, then the real problem rears its ugly head: If you can't play like Robin Trower, it doesn't matter if you've got his tone. You still sound like you.
Of course, then the real problem rears its ugly head: If you can't play like Robin Trower, it doesn't matter if you've got his tone. You still sound like you.
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Cagey said:
Now who's blaspheming? It's all in the gear, Cagey, and you know it! :icon_biggrin:
