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Post by pvfan on Apr 5, 2011 23:42:08 GMT -7
earlier ...
T - max B - max V - noon
into a 10" Gold & H30 pair, using my cs Strat, Plimsoul, Hardwire delay.
Que incredible.
een cray DEE blay .
I discovered whole new ways the Strat's 2 tone pots interact to affect more pickups than I thought each and both did -- I seriously got lost in the best way, and I got seriously humbled in that I had no clue about my instrument's tonal palette or how the controls even worked together in such complex ways until the 66 opened those doors. It's the first day I really ZEN'd in to my Route 66 with my tight-as-a-diving-board Custom Shop Fender. My first Strat. For decades I always just had 1 guitar and 1 amp, just a fact. Until very recently I had never owned a Fender product nor anything as artistically engineered as a Z amp. Lots of reasons why, not the point. Just giving context.
What great Stratocasting, though. Crying over here, folks.
Route 66: The Ultimate Strat Rig? My Ghia needs new power tubes pretty quick I think, so I'm giving her a rest until I get some. (Change those 84s often!)
... eventually I had to unplug to satisfy biologicals and logistical minutiae, food, yadda.
Que lastima.
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Post by mmantle on Apr 6, 2011 4:38:36 GMT -7
AMAZING.
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Post by mmantle on Apr 6, 2011 4:47:38 GMT -7
The other day i was recording a solo with my 335 and 66. I was also using my sunface nkt and ep booster.. This is the typical guitar setup that used when we wrote the song.... For fun I tried my strat instead... instant greatness. I ended up keeping the strat takes, as they were easily better sounding... I think this may be the ultimate strat amp.
I had the T @ 1 B @ 2 and volume @ 3... with the cab mentioned in my footnote there... sunface cranked... ep lowered all the way, set on the treble boost setting.
My other guitarist loves his les paul, hates fenders... he even looks funny playing them... but he even had to admit the greatness of the strat through the 66!
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Post by pvfan on Apr 6, 2011 5:59:03 GMT -7
^ I know right? ha ha. Thanks for the story! don't know what happened really! I've had the Strat and the 66 a few months, but I guess yesterday was the first time with the Strat and those 2 speakers maybe? I was floored. I don't seem to notice any single-coil noise either?
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Post by mmantle on Apr 6, 2011 13:49:31 GMT -7
I notice there is more hum with the strat, but im used to that... i dont care. When i started working on this project with my band, i had just got back from living overseas for a year and they guitar i brought with me was the strat... so when i got back, all i wanted to play was the 335, so i ended up writing everything with the 335. Now i feel weird playing a strat on these songs... but I'm much more of a strat player... Im not a big fan of the way humbuckers interact with effects and boost pedals... strats are much easier for me to control... could be because i've been playing them since i was 11!!
I can tell you this about the strat: When i was 11 my parents drove me by a music store that was closed, and through the window i could see a sunburst strat hanging on the back wall... that was it... i immediately went home and looked that up on my "encarta" encyclopia... and a red strat popped up... from then on, that was it... I have had a sunburst strat since!
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Post by pvfan on Apr 10, 2011 0:08:30 GMT -7
cool man. Mine's Lake Placid Blue, no board, just the maple, vintage tint. The mint pickguard sets it off, the very subtle mint color marrying the blue and yellow of the axe. I'll get a digital camera / phone sooner or later. Maybe. It would be just to show you guys. Adding an Air Brake to this equation is the huckleberry syrup on a pile of buttermilk flapjacks. It's just so stratty.
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Post by Phil (aka Phil) on Apr 11, 2011 16:34:02 GMT -7
wasn't that the name of a tune on "Farewell to Kings"?? ;D
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