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Re: Magnet Stagger

8/7/1999 3:19 AM
Steve A.	Re: Magnet Stagger Hi: Going back to the 60's, with stock guitars plugged into stock amps, I was always one to crank up the pickups as high as they would go just to get a little bit more overdrive (or just plain "Drive"!) from my setup. But with the Lindy Fralin pickups I put in my Fernandez strat, I couldn't really hear how nice sounding they were until I set them down low (as you suggest). The difference was like night and day. Set up high they were good, but not great. Set down low they are almost magical. But I should add that I am plugging them into my hotrodded amps that have a hot front end... not gobs of overdrive, just a very hot and responsive input. Steve Ahola P.S. I never played strats at all for almost 25 years- they were too "wimpy" sounding for me and would never stay in tune... (Give me a LP any day of the week, thank you!) But over the past 10 years I've become "strat-ified" and that is what I usually play these days— you just don't get that wide range of tones and the total finger control over your sounds from any other guitar... IMHO, of course. (I can see why EC and JB hung up their LP's and started playing strats!)

8/7/1999 3:19 AM

Steve A.

Re: Magnet Stagger

Hi:

Going back to the 60's, with stock guitars plugged into stock amps, I was always one to crank up the pickups as high as they would go just to get a little bit more overdrive (or just plain "Drive"!) from my setup.

But with the Lindy Fralin pickups I put in my Fernandez strat, I couldn't really hear how nice sounding they were until I set them down low (as you suggest). The difference was like night and day. Set up high they were good, but not great. Set down low they are almost magical. But I should add that I am plugging them into my hotrodded amps that have a hot front end... not gobs of overdrive, just a very hot and responsive input.

Steve Ahola

P.S. I never played strats at all for almost 25 years- they were too "wimpy" sounding for me and would never stay in tune... (Give me a LP any day of the week, thank you!)

But over the past 10 years I've become "strat-ified" and that is what I usually play these days— you just don't get that wide range of tones and the total finger control over your sounds from any other guitar... IMHO, of course. (I can see why EC and JB hung up their LP's and started playing strats!)

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