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Post subject: Curses! Foiled again!
Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 10:15 am
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I've been wanting to get a new guitar (semi-hollow). I've been studying from a book that uses one for tracks on the accompanying CD and I like the sound a lot.

Alas, once again the Stratocaster foils my best attempts at spending more money. I tweaked my amp controls, the Strat's tone and pickup controls, and voila! My Strat sounds enough like the semi to make me happy with the sound.

This, of course, is a nice problem to have. I am not really upset with the Strat. I am acutally delighted with the versatility of it. Thanks, Fender, for designing and building a great product.

I think I need to start a log book of good settings for the various sounds I like.

Have you had a similar experience?


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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 10:22 am
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I've been wanting to get a new guitar (semi-hollow). I've been studying from a book that uses one for tracks on the accompanying CD and I like the sound a lot.

Alas, once again the Stratocaster foils my best attempts at spending more money. I tweaked my amp controls, the Strat's tone and pickup controls, and voila! My Strat sounds enough like the semi to make me happy with the sound.

This, of course, is a nice problem to have. I am not really upset with the Strat. I am acutally delighted with the versatility of it. Thanks, Fender, for designing and building a great product.

I think I need to start a log book of good settings for the various sounds I like.

Have you had a similar experience?



As a relatively new owner of a Line 6 Spider 3 to use with my MIM Strat, I have a similar experience all the time. New sounds every time I plug it in and start messing with it.


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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 10:32 am
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That is a good idea RudyH. I've thought of something similar, and I think people on here will tell ya that each guitar and amp are a little different, so you're tone knob at 4 on your bridge pickup with volume at 8, will sound a little different than the same settings on my guitar and amp. Instead of posting on here, maybe just jot the settings down in a notebook, so you can always go back to a sound that you've created in the past.
IMO though, I do think it is helpful to post them here too, at least it would be a starting point to help others find a trippy sound or a funky dirty sound that a lot of us are looking (sometimes daily) for.


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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 11:20 am
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I had a similar experience with my bass. My band had a brilliant idea to use an acoustic bass (preferably standup) on a specific recording. So before running out and buying a standup that I would probably have hated I tweaked some settings..played the strings on my electric as close to the neck as possible, and it delivered the sound they wanted. I have also been able to simulate chello sounds by "swelling" the volume and setting the tone a certain way.

So that kind of foiling (spending more money) due to the versatility of my instrument is always welcome.

And that's one of the advantages of the Strat as well..versatility in sound..you gotta love em.

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Strats are good for anything and everything. From playing blues to throwing it across the room to hit your little brother, they are BUILT for it! They're even good for metal, and people think I'm nuts for saying that, but I DO beg to differ. :wink:


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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 2:04 pm
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Strats are good for anything and everything. From playing blues to throwing it across the room to hit your little brother, they are BUILT for it! They're even good for metal, and people think I'm nuts for saying that, but I DO beg to differ. :wink:


I have to agree. However they are not the best for metal (unless you add a powerful humbucker) but with the right amp and effects they certainly can be used for metal quite effectivly.

As far as how they are built...well my Fender bass has been tossed down the stairs quite a few times...and didn't even go out of tune..they are built.

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I don't know much about metal, but isn't it more a function of the amplifier than the guitar? My Roland Cube amp has a model that emulates the famous Mesa Boogie amp and when I turn up the gain it sure sounds like metal to me.

I rely on that model for a searing, demonic rendition of Happy Birthday, so I'm not shredding, but the distortion is nice and "fat". The sustain continues until I get tired of it and stop the strings.


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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 2:41 pm
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There are some interesting web sites for amp/guitar settings; so far I haven't found any guitar hero settings though Id love to find Clapton, Page; Miller, Santana. Ralphs the list goes on and on...
Writing them down on a flip card thing intriges me; placed on top of your apm so you could just make the amp "look like" the picture would keep it simple. I'm sure this is what goes on at professional concerts only the roadie is doing the knob twiddling.


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The guitarist in my band can get a really heavy sound from his Fenders..and they are inherantly thinner sounding then strats. He uses a jagmaster and a cyclone as his main axes.

They both have humbucks in the bridge positions..and played through a mesa boogie triple rectifier and an old marshall JCM 4-12 cab. he uses various effects pedals but the dirty channel of the mesa is enough on it's own for great sustain and heavyness.

We are also tuned 1/2 step down and drop c#...that greatly contributes to the heavyness. Although we are not a metal band per say...we have a few heavy songs and occasionally shred arpeggios..the fenders sound fine for this. But they really do a better job with clean sounds IMO.

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