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kurtcobainnirvana
Post subject: some help comparing 2 strats!
PostPosted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 8:03 am
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Fender Standard Strat HSS and Fender standard strat, is the only different the humbucking?
basically the fender standard strat HSS is $60 more than the Fender standard Strat MIM which is going for $900aus

im really into the grungy sound and want to buy a model today, will the humbuck really help me with that... i dont know much about electrics sorry :( lol
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Post subject: Re: some help comparing 2 strats!
PostPosted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 10:07 am
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kurtcobainnirvana wrote:
Fender Standard Strat HSS and Fender standard strat, is the only different the humbucking?
basically the fender standard strat HSS is $60 more than the Fender standard Strat MIM which is going for $900aus

im really into the grungy sound and want to buy a model today, will the humbuck really help me with that... i dont know much about electrics sorry :( lol


Yes and yes.

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buy the hss.
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Indeed the hss.

3 single coils in strats are awesome if you have in fact, 3 awesome single coil pickups.

In your case, if you plan on beating this guitar to death "as-is", then the HSS would do better for your sound in a heavier rock setting.

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SOOOOOOOOOOO i bought a fender strat mexican standard :D i though the humbucker was nice but if i want to play a mixture of songs the standard was prob better, it felt really nice, ill have mine in around a weeks time :D... thanks everyone for helping me and putting up my idiotic comments haha :wink:

also got the roland cube 20x for a very nice cost price hehehehe.. $220 from $349
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kurtcobainnirvana wrote:
SOOOOOOOOOOO i bought a fender strat mexican standard :D i though the humbucker was nice but if i want to play a mixture of songs the standard was prob better, it felt really nice, ill have mine in around a weeks time :D... thanks everyone for helping me and putting up my idiotic comments haha :wink:

also got the roland cube 20x for a very nice cost price hehehehe.. $220 from $349


nice score, enjoy it and take care of it and it'll serve you well. 8)
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kurtcobainnirvana wrote:
SOOOOOOOOOOO i bought a fender strat mexican standard :D i though the humbucker was nice but if i want to play a mixture of songs the standard was prob better, it felt really nice, ill have mine in around a weeks time :D... thanks everyone for helping me and putting up my idiotic comments haha :wink:

also got the roland cube 20x for a very nice cost price hehehehe.. $220 from $349


nice score, enjoy it and take care of it and it'll serve you well. 8)


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HSS all the way in this case.

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