Beefy strats?

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  • FunkfingersFunkfingers Frets: 14321
    Shoulda gone to Specsavers (or read the OP).
    Jetfire said:
    Not a hss or hh strat. An sss strat with real heavy blues rock attitude. 

    Be seeing you.
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  • crunchmancrunchman Frets: 11413
    Shoulda gone to Specsavers (or read the OP).
    Jetfire said:
    Not a hss or hh strat. An sss strat with real heavy blues rock attitude. 

    Hss or HH isn't even a Strat anyway.  A Strat has thee singlecoils.
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  • Philly_QPhilly_Q Frets: 22516
    edited June 2018
    crunchman said:
    Shoulda gone to Specsavers (or read the OP).
    Jetfire said:
    Not a hss or hh strat. An sss strat with real heavy blues rock attitude. 

    Hss or HH isn't even a Strat anyway.  A Strat has thee singlecoils.

    It's a good job the world isn't run by guitarists.  We'd still be using adding machines and punch-card computers. 

    The steam trains would be nice though, I suppose.

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  • menamestommenamestom Frets: 4641
    CHRISB50 said:
    From what I’ve watched and heard the 69 Custom Shops tend to sound a bit beefier, than the earlier 60s and 50s models. 


    I found them nice enough, but more on the thin / scooped side.

    Saying that, IMO, a fat strat sound is often a thinner sounding guitar (like strats are) into a big fat sounding, loud amp.  That's where the magic is.

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  • cbellangacbellanga Frets: 572
    edited June 2018
    I put a baseplate on my bridge pickup and it improved the sound, also pushing the amp a little harder and bringing back the volume in the guitar seems to help.
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  • p90foolp90fool Frets: 31368
    A beefy Strat is one which is plugged into a decent amp. 

    Deep Purple's Made in Japan is recorded entirely on an ordinary sounding Strat with three single coils and has all the string definition with the added weight behind it of a simple amp setup. 

    I bang on about this a lot, but Strats didn't get "weedy" until amps did, in about 1980. 
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