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Fat 50's 55%  55%  [ 11 ]
Lace Sensor Golds 10%  10%  [ 2 ]
Lace Sensor Blue / Silver / Red 15%  15%  [ 3 ]
Lace Sensor Holy Grails 5%  5%  [ 1 ]
DiMarzio VV Blues / VV 54 Pro / VV Heavy Blues 2 15%  15%  [ 3 ]
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Post subject: Re: Help Me Choose Pickups
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2014 7:54 am
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High gain will be Noise-Ville with fat 50's for sure. You'll be living in the land of Quak-Tone if you take those into high gain territory.

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Post subject: Re: Help Me Choose Pickups
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2014 8:16 am
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Drew365 wrote:
So far, "what noise?". I'm not using it for any high gain stuff right now but I am using a distortion pedal on a couple of songs. Not a problem.

Good. Noise was part of your criteria for selection in your OP.

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Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2014 9:04 am
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Strat-Slinger wrote:
High gain will be Noise-Ville with fat 50's for sure. You'll be living in the land of Quak-Tone if you take those into high gain territory.


My experience with them is dependent on the Amp and where I am when I am playing whether I get noise or not in higher gain situations. I get noise when I am near a TV monitor that is on or when using the Line 6 120 wat amp at high gain, but it seems to not be there at all when I crank up the old 69 SF Super Reverb, not sure why but that's just what happens
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Post subject: Re: Help Me Choose Pickups
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 5:14 pm
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I can't really vote because to me, if you play blues etc, you are looking at the wrong pickups! In my humble opinion the best pickups (I've found anyway) for that real traditional Start blues tone I'd be putting my money into some Custom Shop Texas Specials. Some might say I am being a bit biased as I own an American Special Strat with Texas Specials but in the past I've had and played various strats with various pickups and setups etc and from my personal experience these Texas Specials really rock mate. They seem to give off a really traditional stratocaster tone that is slightly beefed up a bit. I really noticed their full potential when I used them through a valve amplifier. Through my old Vox amp I can get really nice and clear bell like tones through to a dark and meaty blues lead tones. I think these pickups are also standard on the Stevie Ray Vaughan signature strat as well. I really think your missing the best pickups all together out of what you've chosen mate. They are at least worth checking out in my opinion.
Good luck though, whatever you chose!
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Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 4:35 am
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To my ear, a good example of a 'traditional' Strat 'blues' tone would be very early Buddy Guy. Noth'in but the guitar and amp back then. However, his EQ, full treble and volume, no bass, would be far different from that of Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, Robin Luke as examples of players of 'unadorned' Stratocasters of that period. Once the signal processors came of age, the 'traditional' sound, as you call it, was history. Much has been done to recapture that in the several reissues of that period which Fender has produced over the years. However, unless you happen to have one of the originals in your stable, the rest are imitations. In Premier Guitar magazine's excellent three part series of several years back, "The Psychology of Tone", one obtains a good understanding of how and why what you hear is in your head. if Texas Specials do it for you, right on! They just might be someone else's best bet as well. :wink:

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Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 7:45 am
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I haven't tried the Texas Specials. I hope to some day. Right now the Fat 50's are working for me. I'm not a pure tone player, I use a lot of processing, so I just needed a base line that fit my interpretation of what I like to hear, so I could work off of it. The Fat 50's give me that base, similar but not the same, as my thin line Tele w/SD P90's, but with more headroom to work with. I'm pretty much on the center pup 65% of the time, with a little tweak of the tone here and there.
Which leads me to a little aside, there's a thread on My Les Paul.com about guys wanting to eliminate their tone knobs because they don't use them. That's was like reading a foreign language until I went to a couple of their websites, Metal. That calmed me down.

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