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Post subject: Say Hi to the New Guy
Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 10:52 am
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Hello, name's Mat, and over at the Epiphone Forum they all call me...Mat. Anyway, I grabbed a Chinese Squier Affinity Strat from Guitar Center used for 55 bucks, and I gotta tell you, after a few MINOR tweaks (Roller Trees, neck shim so far), this thing is at least as playable as my SG Junior, and with just the neck pickup selected, it OOZES Jimi. Also gonna throw on a set of locking tuners, graphite saddles and nut, and this little Strat will be right as rain. My only complaint is it's really...bright sounding compared to a Japanese Fender I once owned, no matter what settings I use on either the guitar or the amp. I dunno, maybe it's just me being used to the much fatter tone of a P90 equipped guitar (the SG), but whenever I play the Strat, I find I use the neck pickup almost exclusively, sometimes I'll blend the middle pickup with the neck to kill hum, but other than that, I don't use the bridge hardly at all. My Squier Telecaster (another Affinity) wasn't that bright stock, are the newer ones prone to that sort of thing now? As an aside, the Telecaster was Indonesian.


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Post subject: Re: Say Hi to the New Guy
Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 7:12 pm
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Greetings, Mat, and welcome to the forum. You may also want to take a look at squier-talk.com... whole buch of guitar-modding folks there. Cheers.


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Post subject: Re: Say Hi to the New Guy
Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 9:34 pm
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Welcome, enjoy your stay 8)


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