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big steve

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What do you use in the bridge of your strat?
« Reply #15 on: October 03, 2005, 10:51:58 PM »
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Are you looking for something like a PAF with a hangover? Then I would recommend the VHII; that  pickup has lots of attitude!



last time i checked, hangovers weren't synonymous with attitude...
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grooveht

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What do you use in the bridge of your strat?
« Reply #16 on: October 03, 2005, 10:57:49 PM »
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And no, I still go by GrooveHT at the SD forum...I've just been away and lurking for a long while.

Oops, my bad! B2B just posted about getting the same guitar!


no problem at all!  Here's the one I just won:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7353605895&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWN%3AIT&rd=1

would you say the VHII output is almost on par with a JB?  Or not quite that hot?  Sorry to be picking your brain here!
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Steve-Mr Pig 2U

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What do you use in the bridge of your strat?
« Reply #17 on: October 03, 2005, 11:28:15 PM »
The VHII is alot lower output wise than the JB. The Nailbomb and Crawler are in the same sort of area. The crawler being the less of the two.
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TwilightOdyssey

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What do you use in the bridge of your strat?
« Reply #18 on: October 04, 2005, 03:07:10 PM »
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Here's the one I just won

That's a great looking fiddle!!

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would you say the VHII output is almost on par with a JB?  Or not quite that hot?  Sorry to be picking your brain here!

The volume of the output is comparable, but the sound is very different.
Where the JB has a big mid spike, the VHII is more open sounding, with a tighter bottom. It has way more snarl & bite than the JB, which I personally find to be a muddy mess.
When overdriven, the tone is focused and has great harmonics. It's not compressed at all, tho; very open sounding. The upper mids are very prominent (think 5kHz).
The only downside with the VHII is it can be a touch noisy ... here in NYC I pick up radio stations on occassion.
The VHII needs to  have an overdrive pedal after it; however, I feel the same way about the JB.
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Rainmaker

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What do you use in the bridge of your strat?
« Reply #19 on: October 04, 2005, 03:42:03 PM »
Don't you mean, B2D (Brendan), Ben?


Welcome GrooveHT!
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What do you use in the bridge of your strat?
« Reply #20 on: October 05, 2005, 01:27:14 AM »
Steve, Ben, Bee, thanks for all the help!  Think I'll go with a nailbomb or Crawler, as I'm still looking for pretty significant output I think.  The VHII sounds great tone-wise, but a little low on the output side of things?  Thanks again guys!

Jeff
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