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Re: strat with Slowhand + Trilogy
« Reply #15 on: June 29, 2013, 12:08:20 AM »

i haven't purchased yet due mainly to the voicing diff decision. ;-) as you brought up.

did you end up getting a 3-set of SH or TS?

Well, none of them actually, as I traded the host guitar (pups included) for a Gibson SG a friend was selling. If I still had it and was to make a decision today I'd go for the SH, but that's today, not sure I would have made the same choice by that time (FWIW I only had two guitars then and was playing with a lot more gain than I do now). The SH were just perfect for pristine clean to bluesy crunch to early 70s hard rock overdrive. The TS is possibly the only Strat pickup (I mean single coil strat pickup) I've ever played that worked for me for high gain stuff  while still sounding like a Strat pickup, and the clean tone was really good too, but the voicing difference was such I never felt confortable using all three pups with the same amp / gain settings.

tl;dr : both great pups with very different character, go for it if you want a strat that can do about anything except Surf twang, don't if you favor consistency over versatility.
 
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Re: strat with Slowhand + Trilogy
« Reply #16 on: June 29, 2013, 01:10:18 AM »

i haven't purchased yet due mainly to the voicing diff decision. ;-) as you brought up.

did you end up getting a 3-set of SH or TS?

Well, none of them actually, as I traded the host guitar (pups included) for a Gibson SG a friend was selling. If I still had it and was to make a decision today I'd go for the SH, but that's today, not sure I would have made the same choice by that time (FWIW I only had two guitars then and was playing with a lot more gain than I do now). The SH were just perfect for pristine clean to bluesy crunch to early 70s hard rock overdrive. The TS is possibly the only Strat pickup (I mean single coil strat pickup) I've ever played that worked for me for high gain stuff  while still sounding like a Strat pickup, and the clean tone was really good too, but the voicing difference was such I never felt confortable using all three pups with the same amp / gain settings.

tl;dr : both great pups with very different character, go for it if you want a strat that can do about anything except Surf twang, don't if you favor consistency over versatility.

Well said! Mixed sets have their pro and cons, especially on strats I think. That's why I like HSS-strats with a powerful humbucker that splits well, so you don't comprise too much on the fourth position.
Mules, VHII, Crawler, MM's, IT's, BG50's.