Just curious- what kind of caps did you guys use? I had ODs in there... they were ok- a bit grainy. I tried some Mallory 150s and I actually like them better. I have a ton of other types from my amp building stash- just no paper/oil. Any suggestions to improve my tone further?
In the mean time... saving up to replace the strat pickups!
Thanks guys!
Glad to know you enjoy your new pups :D
wrt/ tone caps, it's really a matter of personal tastes I'd say. I currently use russian PIOs - can get them for a reasonnable price on evil-bay - and find they "sweeten" the tone quite well. On my Vox Custom 24 I did a whole pups + pots + tone caps replacement at once so it's hard to tell about the caps themselves (I'll possibly try other options one day or another, but that's not exactly my priority). But I swapped only the caps on a friend's LP copy recently, and going from a modern-wiring / cheap ceramic caps to a vintage-wiring / russian PIO caps was a noticeable improvement in both overall tone and volume/tone pots usability.
wrt/ your strat, if it's the "maple strat (with ) a cr@ppy sounding bridge" you mentioned - and assuming it's an HSS -, then the Crawler might indeed be a good option. On my Vox (ok, a bit different since it's a going-thru neck), the Crawler bridge is at once sharp and yet still sweet, and performs as well from chimey cleans to cutting crunch to singing&screaming hi-gain leads - with of course all the distinctive features you can expect from a BKP : even & well balanced tone, very articulate even on highest gain settings, and literally "breathing".
But anyway : as you know now, Tim is THE man when it comes to "which pups for this axe and tone" questions 8)
My 2 cents.
