Well they weren't meant to be there in them days, though people jammed matchsticks into the switch to make em easily accessible.

Hendrix had his strats wires all kinds of ways. Inphase, out of phase, all 3 on all the time and various other strange variations.

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I agree completely with that sentiment. If you read my post again you'll see I said you can get close with just the gear.

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Just think of how awesome a guitar player you could have been by now if you had only spent the last 10 years practicing instead of obsessing over pickups and roasted maple necks.

For The Wind Cries Mary I recommend using just the neck pickup. In fact, that's what I use for most Hendrix tunes. Beyond that, using your hands to get all the little nuances well get you far closer to the Hendrix sound than any combination of amp and/or pedals. You can go on YouTube and find 10 different guys playing Purple Haze. Not one of them will be even close to nailing it. They are studying the wrong things.

That's the main reason for which CBS introduced the 5-way selector in 1977; to make such switching more stable and efficient.

I like very much the characteristic Strat "quack" provided by the positions 2 and 4 of the 5-way pickup selector. Particularly when you use a hum-cancelling RWRP pickup in the middle position.

The "quack" gained a burst of popularity with famous greats such as Robert Cray, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, David Gilmour, Robin Trower and Mark Knopfler. Over the years, it became a Fender trademark.

for the WCM , i just use the neck pup with the vol rolled off on the strat into the jcm 800 , sounds good as for little wing mostly the same but i can get a vey nice closeness using my epi lp with the volume rolled off as well , hth

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So.... I have a wiring diagram that was designed by Bill Lawrence that he put into one of Jimi's guitars..........

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Just think of how awesome a guitar player you could have been by now if you had only spent the last 10 years practicing instead of obsessing over pickups and roasted maple necks.

I think you need something like a univibe to get that little wing tone.
Jimi probably used an actual rotating speaker like a leslie, but you just need something that gets you in the ballpark.

Yep.

I remember reading an interview w/the Nuge back in the day (might have actually been an EVH interview, but I digress, Ted was involved in the story) and VH and Ted were playing on the same bill. Ted walked up to Eddie to see where the "magic box" was. Suffice it to say, even though Ted was playing through Eddie's rig, he still sounded like Ted.

Looking back, while I've admired the tones of my heroes, I can't say I've ever wanted to emulate them. Because after all, even as Ted discovered, you can replicate all their gear or if you're lucky enough, play through the rig itself but you're still going to sound like you.

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The mind is like a parachute; it doesn't work unless its open-FZ