what do you think about shred on guitars such as strat or a tele. Isn't the original purpose of these guitars just to preserve the original essence of classic rock. Do you think its right to represent Fender like Yngwie and John5 do by flattening the necks, adding high gain pick-ups and EMG Humbuckers, and adding scalloped frets?

That's the fun part of having a guitar. To make it yours and adapt it to you style of music. I don't like shred much but it's all good. I tried my Son's scalloped neck and it actually is pretty cool.

Musicians have modded guitars ever since there were guitars. Classic rock is not really a certain guitar.

Stingy.

Well imo it does show that the Strat is a flexible guitar compared to nowadays superstrats commonly like Ibanez.....its been played by blues, jazz, country, shredders, metal musician(even the extreme like Marduk) and many more....i know i made the right choice now by playing the strat!

I think its good that there are shredding strats because otherwise all strat players would be stereotyped as slow players and thats ofcourse not the case

Strats are the Chevy small block 350 V8 of the guitar world. You have so many choices of mods, you can make it whatever you want.

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A bunch of guitars, a few amps, some pedals and some other stuff that makes noise.

Where did you get the idea that preserving the sounds of classic rock was the "original purpose" of these guitars?

Leo couldn't even have imagined "classic rock." He hated distortion, and tried to stamp it out at all costs. He loved high-end shimmer, hated the in-between settings on the Strat... and if you doubt any of this, plug into a Music Man amp sometime. His original purpose was to provide the dance bands of his time with instruments and amps that created, as he once said listening to an all-Fenderized band play, "a shower of brilliance!"

As others have pointed out here, the classic rock sounds you admire were made by guys who modified the livin' crud out of their Fenders.

I'd say there's nothing wrong with shredding on any given guitar/bass. My only issue is with people like Malmsteen doing nothing but shredding. Then it just sounds like a load of garbled mess, imo.

I think: don't shred.

Excellent comparison.

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While some people like stock cars, some like putting a lot of after-market stuff on them. Guitars are a lot like that. Some like them the way they are out of the box, and some like to customize them to suit their needs. It is all the reason Fender made his guitars the way he did. Keep it stock or put on after market stuff to suit your needs.

I had tuner issues with mine and put on Fender/Schaller locking tuners on mine. The sound did change very little, but it helped with my mysteroius G string going out od tune all the time with tremelo use. I guess you could say it was a mod to suit my playing style.

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