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Post subject: Re: How To Beef Up Your Strat Tone A Simple Wiring Mod Tutor
Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 1:08 am
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Using all three pickups together could produce a beefy humbucker-like texture! :P


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Post subject: Re: How To Beef Up Your Strat Tone A Simple Wiring Mod Tutor
Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 3:01 am
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Not only that. The guitar gets the new sonic dimension that is hard to explain.

It sounds as an all new guitar .. it doesn't sound as a strat, that's for sure. (Sometimes it reminds me of my old 355 TDSV ..).

I highly recommend installing the switch.

I'm also surprised Fender didn't come with this idea in its long history. I never played a Strat Elite but looking at the photos the installed switches may have this feature, but again I'm only guessing.

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Post subject: Re: How To Beef Up Your Strat Tone A Simple Wiring Mod Tutor
Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 4:12 am
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Nikola Tesla wrote:
...I'm also surprised Fender didn't come with this idea in its long history....


Oh, but they did! The "Deluxe Players" Strat, for one example, features a push-push button between the two tone knobs that adds the bridge pup to positions 4 and 5 of the pup selector switch. So in position 4 you have all three pups, and position 5 is neck and bridge pups together.

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Post subject: Re: How To Beef Up Your Strat Tone A Simple Wiring Mod Tutor
Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 5:27 am
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There you go ... :oops:

How do you like it?


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Post subject: Re: How To Beef Up Your Strat Tone A Simple Wiring Mod Tutor
Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 6:34 am
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Schecters do sport those toggle switches:

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Not all came with the 3 toggles, a handful of these strats are fitted with a standard 5-way selector.


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Post subject: Re: How To Beef Up Your Strat Tone A Simple Wiring Mod Tutor
Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 6:56 am
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I have barrels of beef these days thanks to this puppy :D

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Post subject: Re: How To Beef Up Your Strat Tone A Simple Wiring Mod Tutor
Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 7:22 am
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Nikola Tesla wrote:
...How do you like it?


The combination of neck and bridge pups sounds very much like a Tele, sweet. :)

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Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 7:52 am
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Wow, adjustable pole pieces of a single coil.... Very cool mix of Seth Lover and Leo Fender Technology...

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Post subject: Re: How To Beef Up Your Strat Tone A Simple Wiring Mod Tutor
Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 8:03 am
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Wow, adjustable pole pieces of a single coil.... Very cool mix of Seth Lover and Leo Fender Technology...


The beauty of this pup is that you don't really lose too much tone from position #2 either. It's the reason I no longer have an LP 8)


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Post subject: Re: How To Beef Up Your Strat Tone A Simple Wiring Mod Tutor
Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2013 2:18 pm
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I personally LOVE this mod. I've been using it for a few months now, and I would never go back.
It has nothing to do with sounding like a humbucker as one poster mentioned, it has to do with extending the sonic palette of your strat, and giving you some really unique, and highly usable sounds.
The neck/bridge in series sound is crazy nice, and has a gorgeous sound, at times even reminding me of some of the dual pickup hollow body guitars. The neck/middle in series sound is also very nice, and unique, it still has some of that Strat 4th position character with some beef, and the neck/middle in parallel with bridge in series is probably the least useful for me personally, but one application I've used it for is that "American Woman" lead tone with the tone knob rolled back.......it did a sweat job for playing that....lol
As far as useful mods go though, this one is highly usable if you want to expand on what can be achieved with a regular strat, and it's also a fun mod to install. I'm all for encouraging people to modify, and learn how to work on their own instruments.


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Post subject: Re: How To Beef Up Your Strat Tone A Simple Wiring Mod Tutor
Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2013 7:16 pm
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Just a thought... the Schecter wiring mod allows 36 killer pickup combinations in total.

The problem is Fender doesn't sell Stratocaster guards with 3 holes for the toggles.

That Schecter wiring scheme can be useful with a triple humbucker configuration :)


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