First of all, let me say just how much I love my 2004 50th Anniversary Strat. The tones and the clarity I get out of this guitar makes me want to play more and more. The Strat has the noiseless pickups in them, and I'm running it thru a Marshall MG250 DFX. The only outboard effects I use is a Boss CE3 Compressor/sustainer. I love the sound I'm getting with the bridge pickup for the lower strings like the low E, A, and D, but the high E and B strings are thin sounding and an almost irritable tone. I know the first answer I'm going to get is to get a tube amp, but the amp sounds great with my Les Paul. I want to use the Strat exclusivly, but some of these tones are killin me. Any ideas would be welcome.

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Life is like a sh*t sandwich. The more bread you have, the less sh*t you have to eat.

Wire the bottom tone pot to control the bridge pup. Set it on 5-7 and it should take the shrill (ice pick) out of it real nice !

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So really all you do is take the wire that runs from the switch to the lower tone control and move it up to the empty lug on the switch.

Then take short jumper wire and solder it across the two lower lugs on the diagram ( so you have neck and middle tone control if you want).

Without the jumper you will only have the neck tone control (the one nearest the vol control naturally).

Hello!

I'd go with sjtalon.

You could also try a higher string gauge or adjust the bridge pickup height and see how it sounds.

Hope this helps

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Your guitar already has the tone pot wired to the bridge pickup. However the delta tone pot is the one controling the bridge and middle pickups. So Sjtalon is right, lower the bottom tone control to right on the click of that pot. I couldnt get on with it's sound either.

Onto the Marshall. I like the MG250, I think its a bloody good amp for the money. However its not without its problems, namely the gain channel. What I suggest you do is stick entirely to the clean channel, or is it clean channels on that amp? Use the clean channel with the gain control on max for your dirty sound, for extra drive use a OD pedal. The bad monkey is my longstanding fave for that application and you can pick em up for £20. The clean/crunch channel of modern marshalls is really the classic marshall sound. All that high gain stuff is just fizzy nonsense. Other than that keep the middle up to full, bass at around 3/4 and treble between zero and half way up.

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I've had the Strat for 3 weeks now, and until you guys told me, I never realized that the bridge pu had a tone control. I thought this was set up like a standard Strat. I'm trying everyones ideas, and soon the Paul will just sit in a case and the Strat will be my #1. Thanks!!

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Life is like a sh*t sandwich. The more bread you have, the less sh*t you have to eat.

Try playing with your pickup height. Do a search for my post called "Nickel Method", use that as a starting point.

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