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Post subject: Buying a Strat. Easy Mods to improve tone??
Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 6:47 am
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Im buying a new American series strat and im looking for advice on mods that can improve the tone and reduce noise and buzzing?
My stlye of playing is very hendrix-esque, and I play alot of Clapton and Page style blues.


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If you are buying a new American Strat and already want to improve the tone and reduce the noise and buzzing why are you buying it in the first place?
Why not look for a Strat that you don't feel the need to make mods before you even own it?

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Post subject: Re: Buying a Strat. Easy Mods to improve tone??
Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 10:57 am
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rubyinthedust88 wrote:
Im buying a new American series strat and im looking for advice on mods that can improve the tone and reduce noise and buzzing?
My stlye of playing is very hendrix-esque, and I play alot of Clapton and Page style blues.


Just have it shielded. Any guitar, no matter how good can benefit from this.


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Post subject: Re: Buying a Strat. Easy Mods to improve tone??
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 8:23 pm
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rubyinthedust88 wrote:
Im buying a new American series strat and im looking for advice on mods that can improve the tone and reduce noise and buzzing?
My stlye of playing is very hendrix-esque, and I play alot of Clapton and Page style blues.


If you're looking to upgrade or Mod I would buy a MIM strat. I own a 06 MIM and you can pretty much say that the only things stock on my MIM are the body, neck ( minus frets ) and selector switch. It's not an MIA but I can't complain. It sounds and plays awsome!!!! Had a couple of friends of mine try to buy it of me.


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Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 1:31 pm
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Americans have hum cancelling in positions 2 and 4, plus 3 "noisy" spots you can switch into once you get going and nobody can hear any hum anyway. With the Custom Shop Texas Specials that I ended up with after getting a dead neck pickup in some Fat50s, there's a real classic Strat tone, with noiseless in two out of five positions. The Texas Specials are based on SRV's vintage 1950s Strat, but with hum cancelling from a reverse-wound middle pickup. If you really want to get rid of all hum, noiseless pickups end buzzing completely, but it's a trade-off because they usually lose some tone. I was going to go noiseless in my Highway One when I upgraded, but couldn't find the classic Strat tone I wanted in any noiseless I tried - a Dimarzio stacked humbucker and all Fender noiseless options. I hear Kinman's have a great Strat-like tone, and Dimarzio is real proud of their Area 58s and Area 61 for the bridge. Imho, Fat50s or Texas Specials, which boost the mids and just slightly dim the brightness from some Strat pickups, are best for Blues.


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Good noiseless cables and a pro set-up on the geetar.

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I have to agree with Chet. I don't understand looking to mod a brand new American made strat before you even get it home and play it for a while to see how it really sounds and responds to your playing. Not to mention it's a waste of money. If you think a guitar is going to need mods before you even buy it you should be looking at another guitar that has what you need upfront. It'll save ya a couple hundred bucks on pups and installation.
If you want to mod a guitar, get a Squire or MIM and Frankenstrat your way to a hot lil axe.

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american standards are good, u shouldn't experience some major buzzing after you get it set up, and dont even mess with the golden tone .

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I guess you don't believe in the adage, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

Try the guitar totally stock first, you might be pleasantly surprised.

If you are still determined to alter it, it is very important that you decide what you DO like about the guitar as importantly as what you DO NOT like about the guitar. Next, be most careful with your new selections. The reason I say this is because upon replacing stuff, you might inadvertently take away some of the things you DID like in your effort to correct the things you DID NOT like.


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You could always do a project strat. A cheap MIM and then change out the pickups to some Alumitones or Lace Sensors.


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You might start out with the pickups. Several friends & I have dun just about everything to a Strat. 


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thnx for the advice....ive decided to just go the extra mile and get the Clapton series strat - oly white :)


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