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Question for guitarists: What's up with old dudes who have two dozen strats but no other guitars?
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 79519626:MV81MTQ3NzkyXzk0NTExMjIzXzgwQUZCMzFF] [quote:Anonymous Coward 78988783:MV81MTQ3NzkyXzk0NTExMDQ0XzRCMTU1NTU1] [quote:Anonymous Coward 79519626:MV81MTQ3NzkyXzk0NTEwNzM5X0M3MTZDRUNG] My explanation: Strats are best for clean or light crunch tones, LP-style guitars are best for heavy distortion. If you play all kinds of styles you'll want all kinds of guitars, but if you only play softer stuff you'll only need strats. I personally only have one strat and one LP-style electric, the rest of my guitars are acoustics and a dobro. Out of all these the LP clone is the one I use the least. I could live without it, but I keep it around just in case! [/quote] [b]While what you say is correct about the type of tones they create. This has todo with 3 things, the pickups, the controls in the guitar (pots and caps) and the Amplifier...thats it. The shape, and wood have Waaaaaaay less to do with it.[/b] I posted a video above...but look up Jim Lill's YouTube channel. He's a Nashville session guy who did a ton of experiments to prove or disprove tone woods. Also, to see the same experiments with speaker cabinets, see specter sound studios YouTube channel. He got killer tones out of a cab made of partial board. [/quote] No argument there. The strat has a couple of design quirks that define its sound. One is the lower output pickups that are brighter than the typical humbucker, giving a "chimey" quality. Another is the weirdly angled bridge pickup that sits very close to the bridge for the high E. This gives the bridge pickup a "funky" character you won't find on any other guitars. Finally there's a middle pickup that alone or with one of the others give a sort of "quacky" tone. The telecaster has that same funky bridge pickup, but lacks the middle pickup. Using it with the other pickup produces a sound not available on the strat, and that's really the only thing that makes the tele special. Anything with a fat humbucker in bridge position gives you the basic high-gain tone you need for harder music. It doesn't matter if it's an LP clone or a Superstrat or anything else, as long as you have this bridge pickup and it's a good one you're ready to go for heavy distortion. I honestly think the above sums up 90 % of what anyone needs to know about guitar tone. The rest is just minor differences, and different form factors giving different feels when you play the guitar. [/quote]
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Has anyone else noticed this trend? Over my short time on this planet I've met about 5 guitar collectors who all shared a similar quark.. they seem to only have strats and around two dozen of them at least.. and they're all bo0mers
I don't get it. There's a regular strat and super strat. Maybe you have a super strat with or without a middle single coil. Maybe you have a humbucker bridge and the other two single coils. But other than those 3 or 4 variations there's no point in owning more strats. Why not buy other guitars too to get more tonal variety??
It's like strats are crack for them and they need to own every color in existence.
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