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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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Humbuckerphobia is Real!!!
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 83464751 True that. Some people have a religious faith in single coils. Meanwhile, my strat has "noiseless single coils" from Mojotone. They're actually drop-in replacement humbuckers, but engineered to look like single coils and to have the same frequency response as vintage single coils. Not all "noiseless single coils" are any good, but these particular ones get 95 % of the sparkly single-coil tone, without any of the hum. A worthy tradeoff IMO. Old dude with about 20 guitars and all the recording goodies too. I think there are two answers to this.... 1.) Some guys find a particular guitar they love and keep buying it. 2.0 Fanboy worship shit. The ones that make me lmao are the Gibson fanboys. The least innovative, most overpriced, stuck in the 60s, worse QC on the planet, broken headstock luthiers dream of manufacturers! Oh...and to the pipe dreamers going on about tone woods...that debate is settled, you're fucking wrong!! Same goes for speaker cabs. [youtube [ link to youtu.be (secure)] Pretty wood is prettier than ugly wood. And light wood is lighter to lug around than heavy wood. That's about all the difference wood choice makes for an electric. Maybe there's a 1 % difference in tone, but it's completely swamped by other factors and not worth worrying about. Agreed. Now if they called it "resonating wood" or "sustain wood" that would be a much more accurate representation of the facts than this pie in the sky "tone wood" shit. It makes great marketing and creates a lot of suckers though. The greats all sound exactly like themselves no matter what guitar they are playing. Watch Pete Thorn on YT play his $150 acoustic.
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