7 sound strat

BobZ_1989

Ok, so I've been playing for just over a year now. Got myself a 2nd hand Squier Bullet for R900 and for the better part of the 1st 6 months, while learning to play, I spent a lot of time tweaking my action, intonation, relief and basically getting to know all the things you should know about your guitar.
Now I was never really happy with the tone I was getting out of it, everything sounded just way too bright and tinny and that started me on my quest for a more favorable tone. Over the past 6 months or so I did everything I could think of without spending more on pickups and the like than I spent on my guitar. I then saw a post about a 7 sound strat, and that it needed very little modification, so I decided to give it a go. Went out to the harware store and got myself a SPST toggle switch, some wires and a new pack of strings from the local shop.
Doing the mod was easy, and I mean EASY! All it is is adding in the switch to the pickguard and 2 wires to the 5 way switch. Now at 1st I had the switch turn on the neck pickup but after a day I realized that I could get better tone control using the bridge, as the switch bypasses your tone pot. After going back under the pickguard and changing the necessary wires around I was over the moon! The sound coming from neck and bridge was awesome and changeable with the tone pot. When using all 3 pickups at the same time I think it kinda kills the tone a little, maybe something to do with the middle pickup cancelling too much harmonics or something?

PS. I also tried Elixir nanoweb strings for the 1st time today, living in Durban takes its toll on strings, so lets see how much longer these last.

AlanRatcliffe

My fave mod for a Strat. ?

Some pickups/guitars, the all three works best, others it's the neck & bridge combo - no way of telling until you try it (my Strat it's the all three - I live on that sound).

Attila

Alan Ratcliffe wrote: My fave mod for a Strat. ?

Some pickups/guitars, the all three works best, others it's the neck & bridge combo - no way of telling until you try it (my Strat it's the all three - I live on that sound).

as a matter of interest would that be in series or parallel Alan ?

AlanRatcliffe

Attila Barath wrote: as a matter of interest would that be in series or parallel Alan ?

Parallel. IMO, the Brian May type guitar is the only one that works well with series wiring of single-coils.