How to Play a Stratocaster Properly...

gball said:
I've truly (honestly) always wished he had played something else. His sound is a mess to me and as a great a player as he was it just seems lost and meandering with a Strat. In the recordings I have seem of him with Gibsons his sound is much more concise and to the point. I know I will get flamed for that, but in his case I think it was the wrong tool for the job.

Here's a guy that has the right tool for the job (to me):

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DAVE!!!!
 
If I am not mistaken, I believe the red strat is a 1983 '57 Reissue with a vintage 8-hole pickguard and EMG pickups. It also had the tone controls replaced with an EXP control that boosted treble and bass and an SPC control that boosted midrange. I believe that EMG now sells a fully loaded pickguard called the DG20 which has all of the above incorporated into it.

I have always planned on building a red strat replica but have never got around to it!
 
DonP said:
Seriously? No-one offered this yet?

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Great tune off his album "Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop" which I have on cassette tape. I really like his whammy bar techniques...I have my Fender Strat set-up for a floating bridge like his. I also got a tip from Jeff on how to keep the whammy bar in place where-ever you swing it. This is done by wrapping plumber's or PTFE tape around the threads of the bar and screwing back into the bridge assembly. It keeps nicely in place where I want it and makes for doing vibrato trills a lot more easier.


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Don O said:
Which Lace sensors are in it? I have 3 Lace Strats and they have different colors ones that have different characteristics. I think 2 of them are 3 silvers ones and the last guitar has a blue, gold and silver, it’s 97 Strat Ultra.
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The gold sensors kick butt
 
smitty_p said:
Ahhh...so, now we’re getting somewhere!

Pray, tell us more about the Gold Sensors!
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I had a Strat with them like 25 years ago, so the memory isn't fresh but I thought the Golds sounded really close to a 50's/60's style single-coil and the got better the louder you turned it up. I had a Strat Ultra for a while after tha with the blue/gold/red setup and I found myself pretty much always on the gold.

However, the best Strat pickups I ever had in any guitar were the actives in a Strat Elite (A guitar I wish I had kept). They could sound like a vintage Strat with the boost low or pretty much humbucker with the bosst turned up. It also had the best Strat bridge ever.

It was this model:
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But mine was metallic gold with gold hardware.
 
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now SEE the Volume knob is in a sensible place ---- its not arse banging the bottom pup!

Like this------ I mean come on guys -----
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eSGEe said:
lol --pot----- stirred......hee hee---sorry I am on cold meds--- you have been warned
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No, that's a really good point. That guitar was super good-feeling to play. And the 3 pushbuttons for the pickups were genius: you could do any combination of the 3 or even all 3 at the same time. That's a model that Fender should seriously consider resurrecting.
 
Oh God, that's because no one ever reaches for volume knob but if ya like to turn your amp up to 10 and control the many sounds and tones available to that situation w/ a volume knob one might have another tool in his arsenal!
 
I guess if your doing this -- then the VK needs to be close---- he really does make that thing cry---whisper---wail and SING-------
 
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