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Start date Jun 27, 2017

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I posted earlier about a trying decide between the two formats. I built up an HSS Strat pickguard and would have sworn that is what I'd prefer. I discovered earlier with Teles I like low output single coils with a pedal boost of some sort for gainier tones.. Same with the Strat I guess. I've always had a Clapton at the house and this is the first conventional Strat in a while. I swapped the two guards in an out a couple of time...SSS all the way for me. I have an LP and another humbucker guitar so I have those tones covered anyway. A

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Joined May 24, 2004 Messages 1,460 Reaction score 119 With the endless choices of Strat pickups available, I'm sure you'll find the right combination for you! M

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Amplite said: With the endless choices of Strat pickups available, I'm sure you'll find the right combination for you! Click to expand...

Yep, found I had I tried all along. Fender 57/62s are perfect.. that's what I had in it originally. Had to try the HSS thing though. B

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Joined Apr 30, 2008 Messages 24,000 Reaction score 12,132 Location New Orleans + in the past I think the bridge humbucker in a Strat is a bit like someone trying to bridge the gap between a more pure Strat and a more traditional HB guitar. If you already have some HB guitars you like, that you wanna keep, it would be the exceptional HSS pickguard on Strat that would wet your whistle.

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Joined Dec 12, 2010 Messages 766 Reaction score 810 For over ten years now, I like using a strat as my main guitar and even though I don't really play particularly heavy music I really like a bucker in the bridge. It's a much more usable sound. And I never liked the sound of a strat bridge single coil. Even with the bucker you still get a great quack from position 2. I recall reading (maybe here) a strat bridge pickup is mostly for show, hahaha. I mostly live on the neck pickup on the strat anyway. That's where the magic is for me. T

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Joined May 19, 2011 Messages 3,947 Reaction score 1,270 Location Oregon SSS louis

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tazzboy said: SSS Click to expand...

I would say have both !........nice vintage style SSS and a SSH or HSH. I have a nice 72 reissue Strat that sounds and plays like a dream but I love humbuckers, I took this $200 Strat and put an Invader bridge but the invader was too much for the single so what I did is put some low output humbuckers for bridge and neck and I had a Bare Knuckle that is 6.55 and put it in middle position . So that crappy thing now plays and sounds awesome ! I found a set of Gotoh VH-1 for $80 and and don't regret ,..........they deliver !! Beautiful crunch and the fact that they are not too hot,.they love fuzz and I do to !

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Joined Jun 22, 2010 Messages 1,292 Reaction score 711 Location San Juan PR HSS for me. The single coil in the Strat bridge position is just too bright and harsh sounding for my tastes and for the music we play which is eighties rock. The HB there is more usable to me. Here's mine.

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I have an air zone in the HSS setup. I think a PAF would be better. One of my other guitars is a old Electra Workingman. It's shaped like a LP but is all Fender in spec, ash body, maple neck and 25.5 scale length. Sounds like a Fender with buckers. GGinMP

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Joined Apr 9, 2009 Messages 5,724 Reaction score 10,092 Location CA Central Coast I find all of the Strat single coils to be really cool, including the combo positions. Of course good pickups and the proper wiring. I have my G&L with the PTB system which I love, and my Dano has the EJ mod with a tone knob switched from middle to bridge. A humbucker in a Strat just doesn't do it for me. monty

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Joined Mar 2, 2009 Messages 34,815 Reaction score 55,443 Location parts unknown HSS for me. I only have one SSS Strat that I use the bridge pup for alone because I generally find them too shrill.

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Silver Supporting Member Joined Jul 10, 2006 Messages 4,428 Reaction score 4,982 I've tried until I'm blue in the face but I've never been happy with a single coil in the bridge and even when choosing single-coil sized humbuckers, I'm always left disappointed. Hot Rails, Tone Zone S, etc, etc...they always come up short when compared to the side by side, full-sized bucker. For me, it's got to be HSS if it's going to be a Strat keeper.

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Joined Feb 27, 2017 Messages 2,101 Reaction score 6,122 Location California Gotta make sure a bridge single coil is tied in to a tone pot. I stupidly never turned my tone down for years and always found my bridge too shrill. Finally wizened up and found some great single coil bridge tones by going down to 7 or 8 on the tone knob.

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lkft said: HSS for me. The single coil in the Strat bridge position is just too bright and harsh sounding for my tastes and for the music we play which is eighties rock. The HB there is more usable to me. Here's mine. Click to expand...

That is a ugly but also beautiful at the same time. Wow I love that guitar sir. :aok

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Joined Dec 19, 2009 Messages 3,055 Reaction score 974 Location Seattle H/S/S and have the bridge HB tapped. You will have many options this way Antmax

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Joined Jul 6, 2015 Messages 1,752 Reaction score 1,935 Location Brit in Sacramento I've got 4 guitars including a strat with a H in the bridge. It was my first guitar, but these days I can't help feeling I should have a S in there. It's my only guitar with a S in the neck and it sounds unique among my guitars. My only real issue with single coils is the noise. I get the impression that you can't really have a noiseless single coil without losing that unique sound. And I get quite a lot of noise in my place with overhead power cables, capacitors, wifi router and multiple computers. Someday I will go SSS though.

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lkft said: HSS for me. The single coil in the Strat bridge position is just too bright and harsh sounding for my tastes and for the music we play which is eighties rock. The HB there is more usable to me. Here's mine. Click to expand...

Is that finish called burning water or bowling ball? Roe

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Joined Jul 12, 2005 Messages 11,703 Reaction score 6,517 Location Trondheim, Norway I got three SSS strats but am lacking a HSmH (humbucker, singel coil and firebird minihumbucker) partscaster/tele Last edited: Jul 5, 2017 lkft

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Joined Jun 22, 2010 Messages 1,292 Reaction score 711 Location San Juan PR

jazzwannabe said: Is that finish called burning water or bowling ball? Click to expand...

Lol! I know, I know...it's an acquired taste. And how about that headstock! Lol! All joking aside this the most ass-kickingest guitar in my lineup by a pretty large margin! M

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ferrinbonn said: Gotta make sure a bridge single coil is tied in to a tone pot. I stupidly never turned my tone down for years and always found my bridge too shrill. Finally wizened up and found some great single coil bridge tones by going down to 7 or 8 on the tone knob. Click to expand...

Agreed, I have my bridge pickup to a tone control... even with a humbucker.

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