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tell us about your favourite Strat switch positions and the ones you don't use
and who ( famous dudes) uses what position for great legendary Strat tones on record and live?
position 1 = switch closest to bridge
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Never use 3 and only the bridge on rare occassions
Then I put humbuckers in it and liked it more.
Live, I think SRV used the neck pickup for Pride & Joy but the album version to my ears is mostly middle then switching to the neck right at the end.
I have a 3 way, and mainly use the middle position (which for me is 2).
it is useful to have some tone pot on the bridge to soften any spikey highs
But on a good Strat, with good pots the vol pot provides so much expression - small tweaks on the vol pot dial subtle tonal variations ,especially on gain settings - So much so that it should be called an expression pot and not a volume pot
Some of my favourite player's sounds on the five positions are...
1 Ritchie Blackmore
2 Mark Knopfler
3 Lenny Kaye
4 John Frusciante
5 David Gilmour
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