Fender American Strat Professional II: HSS or SSS?

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Fender American Professional II Strat: HSS or SSS?

Poll ended at Fri Feb 18, 2022 7:03 pm

1. HSS
16
48%
2. SSS
15
45%
3. Strats are not things that are nice.
2
6%
 
Total votes: 33

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Re: Fender American Strat Professional II: HSS or SSS?

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jeremyb wrote: Wed Feb 16, 2022 3:27 pm
Slowy wrote: Tue Feb 15, 2022 8:03 pm
jeremyb wrote: Tue Feb 15, 2022 7:20 pm .......even as a massive strat fan, the bridge pickup is pointless in one.
Put it through a Hermida Zendrive and see if you still say that.
I live in positions 4 & 5 on mine, its just such a perfect tone why change?!?!!!
Maybe because a Strat bridge through a ZenDrive is tasty?
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Re: Fender American Strat Professional II: HSS or SSS?

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Right, on topic... its for a disco band. SSS. Clean.

And if they don't play "Shake your Groove Thang" they ain't disco or they need a new bass player - me.
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Re: Fender American Strat Professional II: HSS or SSS?

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HSS

Sorry Mark Knobfler :winky:

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SSS all day long, ideally with the bridge pickup tilted the opposite way á la Jimi :-)
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anybody reading the 'Disco Band' bit? tsk tsk
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but in this regard, do a google of earth, wind and fire - Al McKay, no strats hurt in that one, the occasional superstrat.... but mostly 335 or Tele

So for strat, you really need to go to Nile Rogers, king of funk and disco.

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Prefer the look of the butterscotch Tele in the background
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MiniForklift wrote: Fri Feb 18, 2022 5:18 pm Prefer the look of the butterscotch Tele in the background
He doesn't want a tele though.. he has one ;) lets face it, he just wants to buy a strat, all the rest is bullshit.
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Nile Rodgers - excellent player. Anything produced by the Chic Corporation has that dry funky strat playing minimal jazzy triads. Not to mention gymnastic, virtuosic bass playing by Bernard Edwards, and tasteful strings providing the accents. All space and dynamics. Hell of a producer.
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SSS. I don't know why people are dismissive of the bridge pickup. Easy enough to bridge the second tone pot on the switch if need be but I don't do that anymore. Can't be arsed. It's been perfect since the first one. :-)

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Thats good to know Molly as I was thinking of doing that mod myself as I find the bridge pickup too bright mostly.

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vinylguy wrote: Wed Feb 23, 2022 5:11 pm Thats good to know Molly as I was thinking of doing that mod myself as I find the bridge pickup too bright mostly.
You could do it but I never roll-off the tone so didn't see the point.

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Molly wrote: Wed Feb 23, 2022 5:21 pm
vinylguy wrote: Wed Feb 23, 2022 5:11 pm Thats good to know Molly as I was thinking of doing that mod myself as I find the bridge pickup too bright mostly.
You could do it but I never roll-off the tone so didn't see the point.
I've done the mod on one, it was really bright. PUP to blame.

Everyone in the world knows, guitars live in mids, high mids and high. Only way of cutting through the mix.

Apart from tele bridge pups, they are just evil, though since I lost my high range hearing, they're quite nice really...
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Bg wrote: Wed Feb 23, 2022 5:24 pm
Molly wrote: Wed Feb 23, 2022 5:21 pm
vinylguy wrote: Wed Feb 23, 2022 5:11 pm Thats good to know Molly as I was thinking of doing that mod myself as I find the bridge pickup too bright mostly.
You could do it but I never roll-off the tone so didn't see the point.
I've done the mod on one, it was really bright. PUP to blame.

Everyone in the world knows, guitars live in mids, high mids and high. Only way of cutting through the mix.

Apart from tele bridge pups, they are just evil, though since I lost my high range hearing, they're quite nice really...
They can be for sure, but that first Nocaster I had wasn't in the least shrill.

If ever there was a guitar I should've kept. :-(

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Molly wrote: Wed Feb 23, 2022 6:19 pm
Bg wrote: Wed Feb 23, 2022 5:24 pm
Molly wrote: Wed Feb 23, 2022 5:21 pm

You could do it but I never roll-off the tone so didn't see the point.
I've done the mod on one, it was really bright. PUP to blame.

Everyone in the world knows, guitars live in mids, high mids and high. Only way of cutting through the mix.

Apart from tele bridge pups, they are just evil, though since I lost my high range hearing, they're quite nice really...
They can be for sure, but that first Nocaster I had wasn't in the least shrill.

If ever there was a guitar I should've kept. :-(
It tends to be the player. I'm sure I'm one now because I have no upper mids in my hearing :) So they get turned right up...
So, is that low alcohol or no alcohol at all? mmmm, no alcohol, do you want to try it? Noooooooooo.

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