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Forum Ringside => Pickups => Topic started by: difenbahij on November 04, 2009, 05:39:14 PM

Title: which pickup? fender strat ...HRD ... funcky, punchy, bluesy, crunchy
Post by: difenbahij on November 04, 2009, 05:39:14 PM: Hi guys!

I was reading some stuff all over the forum, but i still don't no which pickups to choose.

I'm playing fender stratocaster MIJ through fender hot rod deluxe amp. My ritem playing is mostly funcky orientated so are solos (a lots of little punchy chords). I don't want to have to dry sound (ok, maybe at one possition), but mostly middle wet sound... on the other hand, I want as much organic sound as possible (not to rounded and compressed)... Not to low not to high (with exception on the bridge) and dry, punchy, little bit creamy but also very clean...

I just don't want to buy something i want be satisfied later on with...

hope someone understood me

tnx, Luka
Title: Re: which pickup? fender strat ...HRD ... funcky, punchy, bluesy, crunchy
Post by: difenbahij on November 04, 2009, 11:08:37 PM: one more question.

How would you rank strat pickups (Apache, Mother's milk, sultan's, slow hand, irish tours) by their brightness, responsiveness, punch, high end, bas ...

tnx, if anyone knows
Title: Re: which pickup? fender strat ...HRD ... funcky, punchy, bluesy, crunchy
Post by: Afghan Dave on November 04, 2009, 11:57:56 PM: Wish I could help but it sounds like you want everything so who knows what to suggest.

Irish Tours.
Title: Re: which pickup? fender strat ...HRD ... funcky, punchy, bluesy, crunchy
Post by: difenbahij on November 05, 2009, 09:16:56 PM: I will probably take apaches, but thanks anyway
Title: Re: which pickup? fender strat ...HRD ... funcky, punchy, bluesy, crunchy
Post by: AndyR on November 06, 2009, 02:06:46 PM: I thought I'd posted in this one yesterday, obviously not! :lol:

What I was going to say was I've got Irish Tours doing "funky, punchy, bluesy, crunchy" etc in a strat at the moment...

BUT! They weren't doing the "funky" end of things quite to that extent in the first guitar I had them in.

They're in a Roadworn 60's strat now. It's resonant and quite bright.

They were in a CIJ "62 re-issue" which is resonant but quite warm and fat sounding.

I'm very happy with how both guitars are responding now (the CIJ has the Roadworn's Tex Mex pickups). The swap fattened the Roadworn slightly and lightened the CIJ. The two sound very similar now, which suits me fine at the moment.

However, before the swap I was thinking along the same lines as you for a tone from the CIJ (assuming the ITs worked in the Roadworn)... and I was thinking... Apaches :D
Title: Re: which pickup? fender strat ...HRD ... funcky, punchy, bluesy, crunchy
Post by: Elliot on November 07, 2009, 11:03:40 PM: I would say mother's milks for funky and punchy - after all that is what the mid to late 60s strats were famous for and milks have that sound. Although I play funky stuff on my Flat 50 neck tele pickup rather than my Mother's Milked strat.
Title: Re: which pickup? fender strat ...HRD ... funcky, punchy, bluesy, crunchy
Post by: marantz1300 on November 08, 2009, 09:45:10 PM: I have some Apaches,but no strat to put them in.I have my daughters boyfriends Squier laying about,I might try them in it for now.