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Re: SV: Back in the game
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 05:43, Per Boysen wrote:
> > Från: Dave Stagner [mailto:dave@spnz.org]
> >
> > I struggled with sterile
> > stacked-humbucking pickups on Stratocasters,
>
> Occasionally I have thought about buying stacked Strat pickups but I
> must say that today I'm glad I never had the money to take the plunge.
> Instead I developed the habit of turning down the strats volume knob
> between notes and also to fight hum by assuming a "hum preventing" body
> position ;-) (related to the surrounding magnetic fields, I guess?).
> And I love those low output vintage strat single coils!!!!!
Yeah, i hate to think how much money got spent on pickups for Strats!
The best i tried were the Dimarzio Virtual Vintage, which sounded like
an okay copy of an okay Strat pickup. I expect more than "okay" out of
my instruments!
The Blueshawk has a much more sensible approach. It has a dummy coil in
the back of the guitar that is used for pseudo-humbucking. It's not as
quiet as a good humbucker, but it's better than most single-coils. And
in general, it sounds better than 99% of the Strats in the world, and is
more flexible than the other 1%. I'm quite happy with it.
>
> > Now i'm looping the feedback
>
> Cool! Any MP3's up somewhere?
Not yet... i don't have a good recording setup yet, although it's on my
list. Unfortunately, i also took up drumming recently, so i have yet
another black hole to pour money into!
However, i do have a gig coming up in March, along with a drummer i've
been working with for a while. I'll do my best to tape it and get some
mp3s up.
--
-dave
"...'cause she knows that it's demanding to defeat those evil
machines..."
-The Flaming Lips, _Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots pt. 1_