A mate came for a jam, left this behind for me to "see what I think"....

Dingwall

The mate in question is rather spoilt and this is just one of his many desirable guitars! It's the professional series C1 I think with Fletcher-Landau pickups and some sort of Scott Henderson mod which means the tone circuits don't work on positions 2 & 4!

It is the first Suhr I have played and the first thing that impressed me was the neck and how comfortable and easy it is to play. The sound is quite bright but then that could be down to the Elixir strings it came with. Of course it is a quality instrument and seems to improve every time I pick it up, infact I can hear it actually call my name out loud now if I listen carefully, but it does cost around £2000!

teleplayer

Looks beautiful!!!

But a strat that doesn't work in 2&4... :'( What's the point. ?

Seriously though, I think those are the positions that give a strat it's particular sound(not to say that they're the most commonly used, or the best sounding, just character wise). Well, for me in any case ? I could stand alone here.

BluJu

oh nice. I have only tried one Suhr guitar. It was one of Rob Marcello's when he came down to SA.
I only got to play it for about a minute but the neck seemed to flow lightning fast.
Guthrie Govan preaches on about how good these guitars are.

AlanRatcliffe

Hmmm... real tempting to have something like that around. Great, no-nonsense Strats, but seriously well built. Have fun!

teleplayer wrote But a strat that doesn't work in 2&4... :'( What's the point. ?

No, the tone pots are switched out of circuit on positions 2 & 4 - makes those settings a bit brighter and accentuates the quack.

Dingwall

Alan Ratcliffe wrote Hmmm... real tempting to have something like that around. Great, no-nonsense Strats, but seriously well built. Have fun!

teleplayer wrote But a strat that doesn't work in 2&4... :'( What's the point. ?
No, the tone pots are switched out of circuit on positions 2 & 4 - makes those settings a bit brighter and accentuates the quack.

Thanks for clarifying Alan.

Are you saying the guitar is voiced brightly on purpose to bring out the quack in 2 & 4 and that realistically you would therefore need to turn the tone down a bit in pos 1,3,5 to suite what you are playing? I must admit I have done this automatically but as I said in my original post I wasn't sure if the elixir's were making it sound bright!

Anyway to clarify positions 2 & 4 are very nice indeed even without any tone controls!

AlanRatcliffe

If all the positions are bright, it's probably the pickups voiced that way, but you would find that without tone controls on pos2 & pos4 they are a little bit brighter than they would be otherwise.

If the guitar is consistently bright across all switch positions, it isn't a problem, you can just bring down the treble on the amp a touch to suit.