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Post subject: Latest Personality Cards for the DLX Strat Plus
Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2015 1:46 pm
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I just received two of the latest personality cards for my DLX Strat Plus SSS (there are several). I got the "Super Stacker" and the "Phaser." The Super Stacker basically hotrods position 2 and 4, making them sound very humbucker like. Not quire humbuckers, but much thicker than the regular 2 and 4. The Phaser is a little more tricky to understand. I've never owned a guitar with out of phase pickups so I'm not sure how to use it properly. There are dip switches inside which allow the pickups to be out of phase. The problem I'm having is knowing which switches to turn on off and on. The instruction manual has not been all that helpful to me.

Has anyone else used the Phaser? If so, please school me on this card.


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Post subject: Re: Latest Personality Cards for the DLX Strat Plus
Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2015 7:47 pm
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I just received two of the latest personality cards for my DLX Strat Plus SSS (there are several). I got the "Super Stacker" and the "Phaser." The Super Stacker basically hotrods position 2 and 4, making them sound very humbucker like. Not quire humbuckers, but much thicker than the regular 2 and 4. The Phaser is a little more tricky to understand. I've never owned a guitar with out of phase pickups so I'm not sure how to use it properly. There are dip switches inside which allow the pickups to be out of phase. The problem I'm having is knowing which switches to turn on off and on. The instruction manual has not been all that helpful to me.

Has anyone else used the Phaser? If so, please school me on this card.


Can you take a quick photo of the DIP switches? I'm wondering if it works something like Brian May's Red Special - it has 6 slide switches: one row is simply the on/off switch for each pickup; the second row is the phase switching. On his wiring if the switches are all in the same direction, the pickups are in phase. If one switch is in the opposite direction, then that pickup is out of phase. Here's a photo of his guitar - this is one of the commercial versions that he has for sale. All of the phase switches are in the same direction, so all 3 pickups are in phase in this photo:

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I used to have a Lead II - it was my first good guitar, and I held on to it for decades until recently letting it go to an aspiring player. At any rate it had a "phase" switch that worked when you were using both pickups; it made the sound very nasal and hollow - like the normal position 2 or position 4 on a Strat on steroids.


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Post subject: Re: Latest Personality Cards for the DLX Strat Plus
Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2016 8:35 am
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I don't know about the personality cards, but I have a Les Paul with an out of phase, (OOP) option. It's patterned after Peter Greens '58 Les Paul burst. The story is that his neck pickup had the magnet installed upside down. This would cause the pickups to go OOP when in the center position and both volume pots were equal. He used this sound on a lot of the early Fleetwood Mac recordings. Mine is set up the same way. As soon as I change the setting on one of the volume pots, it goes back to normal sound. It's kind of a cool feature, and I use it sometimes, but I would say that a dip switch would be more useful, like the Brian May guitar. I'm not sure how useful OOP single coils would be. Humbuckers get thin like a single coil, so what do real single coils sound like OOP?

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Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2016 1:04 pm
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Drew365 wrote:
I'm not sure how useful OOP single coils would be. Humbuckers get thin like a single coil, so what do real single coils sound like OOP?


As I said my old Lead II got extremely thin, small and nasally. It was very wiry and hollow, much more than a Strat in the in-between settings.


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Post subject: Re: Latest Personality Cards for the DLX Strat Plus
Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2016 8:58 am
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What's the difference between regular and super stacker personality cards?


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Post subject: Re: Latest Personality Cards for the DLX Strat Plus
Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2016 5:07 pm
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The super stacker sounds like a hotrodded 2 and 4 posion. Very Humbucker like. The standard card sounds like a Strat.


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