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Post subject: American Standard Stock HSS Pickups
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 5:49 pm
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I have never had the opportunity to play the American Standard with the HSS pickup configuration. Fender says they are the Tex Mex™ single-coil pickups with a Diamondback™ humbucking pickup. For those that have played them, please wheigh in on them vs the regular pups. I'd go to my local store but it is small and doesn't carry too much of an inventory, plus I currently waiting for my broken finger to heal.


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Post subject: Re: American Standard Stock HSS Pickups
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 7:41 pm
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I have never had the opportunity to play the American Standard with the HSS pickup configuration. Fender says they are the Tex Mex™ single-coil pickups with a Diamondback™ humbucking pickup. For those that have played them, please wheigh in on them vs the regular pups. I'd go to my local store but it is small and doesn't carry too much of an inventory, plus I currently waiting for my broken finger to heal.


I've got an HSS FSR Start that I fell in love with at first touch... and THEN I plugged it in... WOW!

My other electric is a vintage Gibson ES335, so the humbucker sound is something I've long enjoyed (my name is on the factory warranty<g>)

Every other Strat I'd played was nice... not terrific, just nice... they sounded good, but it wasn't The Sound for me...

My HSS came alive when it was plugged in in the store... so much so that I went home and brought back my own amp to see if it was the guitar or just the amp... sounded just as good on my old standby Peavey Envoy 110 (and then I went back and bought the Princeton Stereo Chorus amp as well... a classic since they were discontinued<g>)

The humbucker in first position on the switch is amazing... it's LOUD... Moving to the second position gives me half the humbucker and the middle single coil... after that it's the classic Strat all the way...

It ALL sounds good... but the humbucker sound is amazing, so full bodied and balanced from E to E...

The rest of the guitar isn't what sold me... but it's all black and chrome... including the black headstock, aluminum pick guard and back plate... in black anodized aluminum with engine turned accents (looks like scales)

The black HSS pickups are really only noticeable because of the humbucker's double cores...

My son's Strat Squire sounds very nice... but I never even wanted a Fender guitar until I cranked up this beauty...
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Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 8:02 am
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I own a mexican HSS And let me tell you the versatility in these things really blows you away...the humbucker is very loud and sharp its terrific, and you still get your classic sounds with the neck/middle or neck or middle....whats not to love?

ok ok...some of you purists out there will swear on the SSS configuration :roll: that's absolutely fine as well, just different sounds.

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Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:35 am
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I have played the exact guitars you are asking about in the stores. I am buying this one (put a deposit on it):
[url=http://www.fender.com/products//search.php?partno=0110100747]2008 American Standard HSS *Sienna Sunburst Rosewood
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The Tex Mex pickups & the Diamonback sound good in my opinion, but this is a subject that will take further experimentation once I actually have the guitar. Maybe I will switch out to Texas Specials & Pearly Gates+ Also, these strats come routed for a humbucker in the neck as well. H-S-H (routing in the wood of the body)...so you can add a humbucker to the neck position as well? It says so in the Specs.

:twisted: I am also buying this American Deluxe Stratocaster® FMT HSS
Its all I been able to talk or think about lol...

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Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 6:55 pm
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I love the SRV sound so I'd have to say go with Texas Specials.


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Post subject: am strat ssh
Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 12:01 pm
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i just played one recently at the music store.
really great tone, sonds great clean and with gain.
i tested a crimson red 2006 am standard ssh, w tex mex neck and mid and diamond back hb and get this, an s1 switch.
sick guitar, really fell in love with it.
wasnt shopping for a new axe. only testing out pickups.


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