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Hi everybody,
I'd like to share and collect some experiences about the settings of a Fender Strat. Maybe it had been discussed before - I don't know. My object of discussion is a 76 Strat with alder body, thick maple neck and fretboard and big headstock.
I am someone who can't leave any guitar untouched because I always think that there is something on the guitar that could be improved. The guitar has the typical 70ies Strat tone which is similar to Blackmore's tone of that era. It sounds good on old Marshalls when played aggressive. But I wanted a more smoother tone and so I played around with different things.
What interests me mainly is: at the connection between head and body there are 2 round steel plates inserted with a screw to adjust the neck angle I guess. I removed these plates once and suddenly the tone changed incredibly: The guitar got very resonant with a more woody tone and dominating mids. Playing this guitar acousticly (no amp) the difference was really big. Playing amplified in a clean mode the tone was rich of mids and beautiful, distorted it had lost the typical thin and scratchy strat tone that it had before. It was fat but missed these typical highs that I was used. It was not as mellow as a SRV tone, more edges in bass and highs. So these steel plates must be responsible of the strat tone. But I saw pictutes of 60ies strats that do not have these plates - does anyone know when they started to put them in?
I wonder about a typical strat tone - it must be a result of lots of imperfections of this guitar.
Any similar experiences around?
Anyone knows when they started with these steel plates between neck and body?
Bernd
I'd like to share and collect some experiences about the settings of a Fender Strat. Maybe it had been discussed before - I don't know. My object of discussion is a 76 Strat with alder body, thick maple neck and fretboard and big headstock.
I am someone who can't leave any guitar untouched because I always think that there is something on the guitar that could be improved. The guitar has the typical 70ies Strat tone which is similar to Blackmore's tone of that era. It sounds good on old Marshalls when played aggressive. But I wanted a more smoother tone and so I played around with different things.
What interests me mainly is: at the connection between head and body there are 2 round steel plates inserted with a screw to adjust the neck angle I guess. I removed these plates once and suddenly the tone changed incredibly: The guitar got very resonant with a more woody tone and dominating mids. Playing this guitar acousticly (no amp) the difference was really big. Playing amplified in a clean mode the tone was rich of mids and beautiful, distorted it had lost the typical thin and scratchy strat tone that it had before. It was fat but missed these typical highs that I was used. It was not as mellow as a SRV tone, more edges in bass and highs. So these steel plates must be responsible of the strat tone. But I saw pictutes of 60ies strats that do not have these plates - does anyone know when they started to put them in?
I wonder about a typical strat tone - it must be a result of lots of imperfections of this guitar.
Any similar experiences around?
Anyone knows when they started with these steel plates between neck and body?
Bernd
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