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Post subject: Blasphemous question
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 9:41 am
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With all the talk of signature strats and personal modifications this is my question. If you were to make one permanent change to the Stratocaster what would it be? Would you change the pickups? Anything about the neck or body shape? Or would you add something that the strat does not already offer. And please note I love the strat, this question is just for fun. Thanks


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Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 9:45 am
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stephenr66 wrote:
With all the talk of signature strats and personal modifications this is my question. If you were to make one permanent change to the Stratocaster what would it be? Would you change the pickups? Anything about the neck or body shape? Or would you add something that the strat does not already offer. And please note I love the strat, this question is just for fun. Thanks


personally i would change the control set up ot more like the tele, just personal prefrence


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Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 9:56 am
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I'd change the controls, too.... I'd deliver them with a master volume, a master tone and a blend control that blends the bridge into the neck.


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Gravity Jim wrote:
I'd change the controls, too.... I'd deliver them with a master volume, a master tone and a blend control that blends the bridge into the neck.


i liked that idea, but i didnt add a blender know, i added a push pull pot so whe it is up the fron pu is alwats on so i can run all 3 pu's if i wanted, andthen i added a push pull pot on the tone sso i could put it in phase/out of phase as well. I lite that set up, makes my strat rather versitile


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Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 10:22 am
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With the Fralin style blend wiring, you can run all three pups at once: just choose switch position 2 or 4 and crank the blend all the way up.

I totally love the versatility, too. Neck pickup with the bridge blended in at about 50% is the most awesome Strat lead tone ever. Throat AND teeth, all in one.


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Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 10:25 am
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Gravity Jim wrote:
With the Fralin style blend wiring, you can run all three pups at once: just choose switch position 2 or 4 and crank the blend all the way up.

I totally love the versatility, too. Neck pickup with the bridge blended in at about 50% is the most awesome Strat lead tone ever. Throat AND teeth, all in one.


it is nice, plus my strat has a sd 1/4 pound in the neck and a pearly gates in the bridge so it is super fat


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Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 10:58 am
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there are things that I would change, but they are tiny personal changes. I don't think that they would benefit the general audience of strats. For example, I would rewire them so that the bridge was wired to the second tone, instead of the middle. I have done this to my strat, and it helps take out some of the high end bite of the bridge pickup, and gives me the "tone deaf" sound that I love.

I would also add a killswitch to them. I would want it to be a button located in one of the pots, similar to the s-1 style. I hope I explained that alright. A killswitch button similar to the s-1 button. hmm. I think that would be an amazing feature on the guitar, but I don't believe that the parts for that mod exist today. if anyone knows anything about something like this, please let me know, because I want to do this very much.


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Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 11:11 am
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stephenr66 wrote:
With all the talk of signature strats and personal modifications this is my question. If you were to make one permanent change to the Stratocaster what would it be? Would you change the pickups? Anything about the neck or body shape? Or would you add something that the strat does not already offer. And please note I love the strat, this question is just for fun. Thanks


Now you know why there's a Custom Shop.


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Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 11:14 am
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zzdoc wrote:
stephenr66 wrote:
With all the talk of signature strats and personal modifications this is my question. If you were to make one permanent change to the Stratocaster what would it be? Would you change the pickups? Anything about the neck or body shape? Or would you add something that the strat does not already offer. And please note I love the strat, this question is just for fun. Thanks


Now you know why there's a Custom Shop.


you got that right


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Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 11:31 am
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there are things that I would change, but they are tiny personal changes. I don't think that they would benefit the general audience of strats. For example, I would rewire them so that the bridge was wired to the second tone, instead of the middle. I have done this to my strat, and it helps take out some of the high end bite of the bridge pickup, and gives me the "tone deaf" sound that I love.

I would also add a killswitch to them. I would want it to be a button located in one of the pots, similar to the s-1 style. I hope I explained that alright. A killswitch button similar to the s-1 button. hmm. I think that would be an amazing feature on the guitar, but I don't believe that the parts for that mod exist today. if anyone knows anything about something like this, please let me know, because I want to do this very much.


In the down position on the S-1 swicht connect it to ground, that will kill
the sound.


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Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 11:36 am
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lostindesert wrote:
Ben13 wrote:
there are things that I would change, but they are tiny personal changes. I don't think that they would benefit the general audience of strats. For example, I would rewire them so that the bridge was wired to the second tone, instead of the middle. I have done this to my strat, and it helps take out some of the high end bite of the bridge pickup, and gives me the "tone deaf" sound that I love.

I would also add a killswitch to them. I would want it to be a button located in one of the pots, similar to the s-1 style. I hope I explained that alright. A killswitch button similar to the s-1 button. hmm. I think that would be an amazing feature on the guitar, but I don't believe that the parts for that mod exist today. if anyone knows anything about something like this, please let me know, because I want to do this very much.


In the down position on the S-1 swicht connect it to ground, that will kill
the sound.



that is true, but the s-1 switches do not return to the up position normally. they stay down until you press them again. I need something that is essentially the same as the s-1, just a momentary switch instead.


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Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 11:42 am
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Ben13 wrote:
there are things that I would change, but they are tiny personal changes. I don't think that they would benefit the general audience of strats. For example, I would rewire them so that the bridge was wired to the second tone, instead of the middle. I have done this to my strat, and it helps take out some of the high end bite of the bridge pickup, and gives me the "tone deaf" sound that I love.

I would also add a killswitch to them. I would want it to be a button located in one of the pots, similar to the s-1 style. I hope I explained that alright. A killswitch button similar to the s-1 button. hmm. I think that would be an amazing feature on the guitar, but I don't believe that the parts for that mod exist today. if anyone knows anything about something like this, please let me know, because I want to do this very much.


In the down position on the S-1 swicht connect it to ground, that will kill
the sound.



that is true, but the s-1 switches do not return to the up position normally. they stay down until you press them again. I need something that is essentially the same as the s-1, just a momentary switch instead.


But no switch returns on itself ?
I don't know if such a part exists, maybe a volume pedal.


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Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 11:57 am
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I'd vote for a compound radius fretboard...9.5" to 12" would be great!

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Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 12:47 pm
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About the kill switch ; two volume pots and a Les Paul toggleswitch.
Turn one pot to zero, you can get great stuttering noises that way.
Have used it sometimes on a LP model guitar.

Peter


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Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 12:59 pm
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Get noiseless that sound exactly like Texas Specials and I'll buy the guitar they come in without giving up what I've got. My Texas Specials are awesome as set up by WWG in my Highway One.

For the main line of guitars, please don't screw with the controls, because with a good set of pickups, they are great as is. Those tone knobs really change the character of the sound and can take you in a lot of directions, if you roll them back off 10 every now and again.

The S1 switching is fine especially with the SCNs which seem to be made for it, but personally I don't like the complexity. I'm a guitar player, and I don't want my Strat turned into a Jazzmaster.

Active pickups? You can keep them and the dead batteries. I'll also leave the active mid-boost and other battery stuff to Clapton, Buddy Guy and others with a lot of roadies.

Sure, Fender's full of guitar nuts and god bless them with a hotrod '57 in Candy Apple red something I'd have in a perfect world - because the SCNs and the bridge Dimarzio S Tonezone sounded good together - better than three SCNs imho. For the main line of instruments, can we just keep it simple and pure? That doesn't mean hum. We would like hum cancelling available through reverse wound middles in Custom 54s, 69s, and the other vintage single coils we love, and how about offering the great Custom Shop pickups in production Americans like Highway One specials more often?.


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