I use a Vibroverb, the EQ is pretty good, it goes from really dark to very bright. It pretty thick on the blackface tone, I don't think I can get a tweed tone out of it... but I prefer the blackface tone anyways.

I have the standard effects; delay, overdrive, distortion, etc, but prefer just to go straight to the amp.

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Here is a way to get Les Paul, PRS, and even Tele tones from your Strat!

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-T

If you have never heard this I URGE you ASAP to hear this solo.
The guitar playing is perfect - the person in the song is suffering from
extreme lonliness and he compares himself to a piece of driftwood just
bobbing away on the water. His volume and tone control mimics this action... what a musician Rory was !!!!

Two black HSH Strats with the same pickup layout, black shell pickguards... but with different necks and bridges.

The maple neck version shown below has a Deluxe Locking Tremolo Assembly installed, while the rosewood neck pictured above a normal American 2-point synchronized bridge with stainless steel block saddles.

Jeff, I would be very happy if you post a pic of the rosewood-necked black HSH Strat with the Deluxe Locking trem.

Oooh!!! Don't dat pretty!

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'08 Fender Am. Std. Jazz bass, maple fretboard, charcoal frost metallic finish
'10 Squier VM Jazz bass, maple fretboard, natural finish
Ampeg BA115
'09 MIM standard Strat, maple fretboard, sunburst finish
Fender Super Champ XD

considering different woods, different pickups,a strat would sound close, but not that identical... example a les paul with a warmer punch, compared to a brighter and clearer single coil sound..

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I'll check that out,I love Rory's playing and emotion....he walked the walk.

You can really get this...John's Rickenbacker 325 from a Strat:



There's two ways to do it:
1. Middle or bridge pickup, bass down on amp, treble up. Play through a VOX amp and you are nailing John's rhythm tone exactly. I swear by it. I really, really wanted a Rickenbacker 325, but just monkeying around on my Strat I now see no need for the $3,000 Ric 325.

2. Same settings as above; once again, playing through a VOX amp is a big help. However, this time to the Strat you do the following: Tune down a whole step and then put a capo at second fret. You now have that shorter 325 scale. Not only are you sounding exactly like John on his Ric, but you are playing like John.

I've used the tone knobs to get a Gibson tone with the 2 and 4 possitions. I also own a Clapton Strat so that helps too.

I would love to be able to walk into Fender and explain the sound I want from a Strat and have them willingly oblige, PLUS do it for free.

I guess that's one of the perks that comes with being a guitar icon like Eric.

Jeff Beck was also offered to have a signature model at the time, but he rejected the idea until 1991, when he opted for an Artist Series guitar based on the Plus series line of 1987.



The Jeff Beck Stratocaster in its original form resembled much to a regular Strat Plus, but had several important features Jeff liked a lot:

1. An early 50s "baseball bat" neck shape with a 22-fret dark rosewood fretboard glued on a 2-piece maple neck, MicroTilt neck adjuster and BiFlex truss-rod system.

2. Lace Sensor Golds in a humbucker/single/single configuration with a push-push button for coil-splitting.

3. An American Series 2-point tremolo system with Wilkinson roller nut (changed to LSR in 1993) and Sperzel TrimLok staggered locking machine heads.

4. Four distinctive finishes: Sparkling Black, Vintage White, Seafoam Green and Midnight Purple. The Sparkling Black finish was only available on the Custom Shop version of this guitar.



Reflecting Jeff's personal tastes, his signature model has been updated with new features 10 years later: the Lace Sensors were replaced by a set of dual-coil ceramic noiseless pickups with a straight 5-way pickup switching and the neck shape slimmed down into a thinner "C" profile with a smooth contoured heel for better access to the upper registers. The four finishes of the previous model were replaced by Olympic White and Surf Green.

i can get a lespaul sound by putting it in the 2 position with the midle pups tone all the way down ...but i have a humbucker in the bridge

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I like my tone like my women. Full round bottom, sweet and clean but can get as dirty as I desire.

I can get some nice warm tones from my Strats with a tube screamer and turning down the tone control, but there's no way it would ever sound like a heavy solid body LP with buckers or semi-hollow 335 with buckers, no way! I have all 3, there's a big difference in tone when I reach for my 335. The only thing that comes close to a 335 on my Strat is when I blend the neck and bridge pups, it gets close to the 335 middle position, that sweet BB tone, but it's still no 335.