A Thought About Fender Guitars

[The_Sentry]

Versatility...meh.

You can take multiple paths to the Versatility well.

 

[Brazilnut]

I prefer playing my Strat.

But I really love the thick LP tones.

Everyone should have an LP, a Strat, and a Tele.

YES! So What nailed it. You can't beat the tones of a Les Paul. Maybe not as ergonomic or versatile, but that TONE! Sometimes I drool while playing my SG full out. Not as fat as a Les, but my back's happier. Mahogany/maple and humbuckers. Nothing compares.

 

[mudfinger]

Its one thing to run your mouth, another thing entirely to back it up. Mr. Insane just doesn't have the goods.

 

[Mindfrigg]

So are we arguing apples and oranges again?

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[Mindfrigg]

Sorry, but after having split coil humbuckers in my guitars for 30 years I've come to the conclusion that they aren't really worth it.

Well. Nobody can say you didn't give it a shot.

I like variable coil taps. Very versatile and easy to dial in to different amps quickly.

 

[Heisenberg]

I prefer playing my Strat.

But I really love the thick LP tones.

Everyone should have an LP, a Strat, and a Tele.

This ^ for me too.

 

[Brutalisateur]

WTF, not this discussion again!

#1 - when guitarists get old, run out of ideas and start sucking, they switch to a strat.

#2 - saying that every guitarist should have a strat in their arsenal is like saying everyone should own a gretsch sparkle jet or an L5. rubbish

#3 - if the strat was so damn perfect, why did Leo create not one but two revisions?! (the musicman sabre, the musicman silouette)

 

[Kamen_Kaiju]

#1 - when guitarists get old, run out of ideas and start sucking, they switch to a strat.

brutal

 

[Pop1655]

Although I find myself really enjoying playing my Strat,
LP has a waaaaay more entertaining forum.

 

[tenchijin2]

I play my LP in a cover band where we play '70s through current music. Pop, rock, hard rock. I switch to my strat maybe for 2-3 songs in a show, because the "strat" sound, but the LP is versatile enough to handle the rest. I wouldn't want to use my strat when playing Guns 'n' Roses, or most hard rock. But I prefer the strat when doing some funky stuff, usually.
I think too much is made of the versatility of a guitar, when really the quality of the player trumps it by a large margin (my playing isn't especially high quality, mind you). It's mostly a matter of what people expect to hear, not what is demonstrably better.

 

[MikeyTheCat]

Well. Nobody can say you didn't give it a shot.

I like variable coil taps. Very versatile and easy to dial in to different amps quickly.

I will say that at times the DiMarzio Dual Sound that I've been lugging around all those came in handy and I did use it a lot, but it never really sounded like even a halfway decent single coil of any stripe. For the last few years I've been using a Duncan P-Rails and that does get excellent single coil sounds but the humbucker isn't all that great. My Mira has coil splits and so far may be the best and most usable I've come across so far, but even those don't get me where I always hoped the feature would get me. For me I finally realized that a good set of PAF style pickups can cover a good portion of what I'm after and an EQ pedal to squeeze a few more tones out of them. And if I need a Strat sound, albeit with hotter fatter sounding pickups, I have my old Ibbycastor.

 

[Mindfrigg]

Rotary coil taps are more inline with a P90 type tone than a Strat SC. But I know what you mean. A coil tapped HB is pretty pale beside a Strat SC.

But I think a P90 equipped Paul with a wraptail beats a Strat tonewise as far as...richness?

 

[cristi tanasescu]

i love strats

 

[MikeyTheCat]

Rotary coil taps are more inline with a P90 type tone than a Strat SC. But I know what you mean. A coil tapped HB is pretty pale beside a Strat SC.

But I think a P90 equipped Paul with a wraptail beats a Strat tonewise as far as...richness?

I agree. I've never been a big fan of stock Strat pickups, others get a great sound with them but I've never been taken them. The Ibbycastor has some single coils that are hotter and thicker than a Strats, close to P90s but different. Les chime but more grit.

 

[Dolebludger]

As the professional music world is filled with trends that are followed with no reason, I am surprised at all the wonder as to why so many pros switched to Strats in the late 1960s. It was a trend, just like hair styles and bell bottomed pants. Rock (and especially serious rock) was fairly new back then and still finding its direction. A lot of trends arose. Some stayed around and some flashed in the pan. The switch from Gibson to Strat was one of those trends -- nothing more and nothing less.

 

[The_Sentry]

As the professional music world is filled with trends that are followed with no reason, I am surprised at all the wonder as to why so many pros switched to Strats in the late 1960s. .

Because everything was changed by this guy...on a Strat...

 

[Dolebludger]

I agree with you, except that "this guy" wasn't alone.

 

[The_Sentry]

I agree with you, except that "this guy" wasn't alone.

He got Clapton to convert....what else was needed?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j082opb4AZo

 

[Stevie 202]

Gibson, Fender...

I'm a guitar ho'

Whatever I'm banging at the moment is the best.

 

[Brutalisateur]