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.
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.
