Thanks to advise from Forum User cafeathers, I lowered my Bridge pick-up. I have decided with this little change to keep the stock pups for now. In fact I lowered the neck pup as well and could not believe the difference there as well.

Thank you for your advise as well. RK

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RK

2007 Fender Highway 1
2012 American Deluxe
2015 MIM Dave Murray HHH
2010 Fender Blacktop
1987 Fender Avalon Acoustic
2012 Marshall DSL 15 watt head

you are SOOOO CORRECT!!!!! its good to see the
majority here agree with me because its fact not
opinion the highway one sss kicks the american standard
and road worn $@! and its tone superior over both of them
end of story.

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Interesting, but how long is this "final word" gonna last? It's been like 6 days since the topic started.

Edit:

Wait, my Am. Standard doesn't have noiseless pickups..what happened to facts only!?!

The OP wants to have the final word so he has to check it once in a while!

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Word

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the highway one upgrad is great i have one with humbucking in wine red great guitar besides the strings.

I'm going to politely disagree. You can't compare a used guitar to a new guitar in terms of prices as new Standards costs 1100 and up. It'd be more fair to say 500 bucks for a used mia to a 300-400 used H.O. I love my H.O. just as much as my American Standard. I love the extra thin finish and the nitro feel of the body, which works well for "accidental" relicing. The jumbo frets and the pickups are the selling point for me. Although it doesn't have the nice rolled edges as the standard, the frets did not stick out and stab my hand. Only reason I can see the Standards selling more is marketing. It's making people believe that the standard costs more, therefore its a better guitar than the H.O. For me, I love them both.

hey alwaysstrat...i think i speak for a lot of people when i say that i'm glad you love your strat, but just because people have different opinions on it doesn't mean it doesn't work for you.

you might hate me for saying this, but i absolutely despise the highway 1 strat personally, because I feel that the electronics are subpar and the neck doesn't play that great. i also don't like the big headstock. but that's just my opinion.

if you gave me a choice between the highway and the mexi standard, i'd grab the highway, sell it on craigslist, buy a nice standard, rewire with cloth, and switch the trem block to callaham. cause for me, i think the standard sounds better.

and to everyone, i'm sorry for the sh*tstorm that this post will cause, haha. i came in peace, i swear.

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Gear list:
2004 Epiphone Casino
----Peerless, USA electronics
2001 "Firewood" ES-335
----USA electronics, Gibson and DiMarzio PAFs
2001 Cort NTL20 Jumbo Acoustic
2007 Hofner Copy
Vox AC4TV/V112TV
Voice
Fingers
Cowbell

subpar? come on expect me and many others
to beleve that. of course your going to say that
you just amitted you didnt like the highway one.
Reality! far far far from being just subpar.

i thought this issue was dead?

also i dont realy like the new american standards.
personaly they are way over priced and way overrated. the highway one sss is the close's to a real strat than the american standards.
with that said i'm not going to call it subpar just because i dont like it.

hey jay good to see ya back around