Single Coil Strat

[RedHouse8]

Hey all,
New to the forums, but thought I'd put this out there. I play a 2001 American Strat and love how it plays, feels, and everything, but I've always felt that the tone just wasn't there (go figure stock pickups). I'm looking for a fat, woman-tone, bluesy tone and am not sure what single coils to go for. I play through a Peavey Classic 50 head and a 4-10, and I've been more than satisfied. Any directiion would be great.

-T

[38thBeatle]

A welcome to another Strat player. Could you tell us what construction yours is. Some of the guys have theories regarding wood/pickup interaction. I have 2 Strat sets, Apaches are pure 1950's Strat tone.Slowhands have a great tone with more mids. To be honest I think I would struggle getting the woman tone  but then that was achived with a Gibson AFAIK. I was playing fior a couple of hours last night-noodling away to blues and jaxzz bavcking tracks and getting some great tones from the Slowhands. Of the two, I prefer the Apaches however- they can kick a*se with the best of them. I have not tried Irish Tours-some of the guys who have them may care to chip in.

[everton_fc]

Went from a set of Irish Tours to Apaches in my USA Strat. the Irish Tours are great pickups, and they rock.

The reason I went for Apaches after a couple of years was that I wanted a more authentic Strat tone - if you want classic Strat tones, the Apaches are perfect. They can rock it out too.

If you want a gritty, on the edge Strat, Irish Tours will melt faces! Not overly hot, but oozing with bags of character.

Either way, your Strat will sound like the dogs bollox.

[Elliot]

Id say Slowhands for the nearest to the Woman Tone