Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: everton_fc on February 03, 2007, 02:46:38 PM
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Wierd, not quite sure how to write this so bare with me a little...
Recently, I've been using a different guitar and left my Strat in the cupboard (in hardcase) for around 4 months. When I put the Strat away was with fairly new strings.
Anyway, I got the Strat out today for a play and the bottom E and A strings sound so dull! This is without being plugged in. They just dont have the usual twang that I guess I'm used too... I'm not sure if it's becuase I'm now used to my new guitar and my Strat was always like that - anyway, has anyone else found this? Does my Strat simply need a bit of a re-string and service?
I compared the USA strat to a Jap Strat I own, which are totally different in materials/string guage etc (Jap strat using a set of 9's etc) and the Jap Strat has THAT twang.
Wierd. Am a bit puzzled, not sure if my ears are playing tricks on me but the strings do sound very dull. Any ideas?
Thanks
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well it would make sense to change the strings i guess?
they do dullen a considerable amount after time...
but then if you havent played it and its been in a hardcase, in a cupboard...
i dunno..
hmm
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You said the strings were fairly new-so they had been played a bit.Did you clean them before you put the guitar away? For the sake of a few quid, I'd firstly get a new strings on her.
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Cool, yeah will restring tomorrow. Spoke to a guy in the local guitar shop and he said Fenders have a tendancy to "encourage" strings to go dead for some reason. He said, quite often, if a customer comes in the shop and asks to play a guitar that hasnt been played a while, it's usually the Fenders that have dead sounding strings.
Wierd... anyway I'll restring tomorrow and see how it goes.
Thanks