Yesterday I pulled my strat out of the case and decided to get it ready to play again.
I cleaned controls and got all the static out of it, I have always locked the bridge down on this guitar, but I decided to loosen the strings up and put the tremolo arm back on. Just asking for any advice on here of others who play a strat and loosen up the trem arm? Any tricks? I played it for a while afterwards and it seems to stay in tune, the intonation is slightly out cause of moving the bridge but i can remedy that with the bridge saddles.
Also, when I plugged it up I noticed a difference in the volume of the pickups, this guitar has a Duncan mini humbacker in the bridge position, it has a muy grande in the center, and another Duncan mini humbucker n the neck postition. I noticed they were way off the strings so I raised all of them and got the volumes of each pretty close to each other.
So a question on pups, how far away from the strings do you set them? Is there any sort of formula? I put them pretty close to the strings and they sound fine.
Something else I noticed on this strat, the bridge pickup isnt wired to a tone control, just volume, then the middle pup is wired to the back tone control, and the bridge is the front tone control. I was just curious if this is the way all strats are wired? When I had the pups put in the guy set it all up for me and I really never paid much attention to how the controls worked.
I just decided after going and seeing a couple of blues bands on Beale Street sat night that I wanted to get the strat out, and since Im auditioning with a new situation, that has keys I thought it might tonally be easier to get clean sounds with the strat.
I cleaned controls and got all the static out of it, I have always locked the bridge down on this guitar, but I decided to loosen the strings up and put the tremolo arm back on. Just asking for any advice on here of others who play a strat and loosen up the trem arm? Any tricks? I played it for a while afterwards and it seems to stay in tune, the intonation is slightly out cause of moving the bridge but i can remedy that with the bridge saddles.
Also, when I plugged it up I noticed a difference in the volume of the pickups, this guitar has a Duncan mini humbacker in the bridge position, it has a muy grande in the center, and another Duncan mini humbucker n the neck postition. I noticed they were way off the strings so I raised all of them and got the volumes of each pretty close to each other.
So a question on pups, how far away from the strings do you set them? Is there any sort of formula? I put them pretty close to the strings and they sound fine.
Something else I noticed on this strat, the bridge pickup isnt wired to a tone control, just volume, then the middle pup is wired to the back tone control, and the bridge is the front tone control. I was just curious if this is the way all strats are wired? When I had the pups put in the guy set it all up for me and I really never paid much attention to how the controls worked.
I just decided after going and seeing a couple of blues bands on Beale Street sat night that I wanted to get the strat out, and since Im auditioning with a new situation, that has keys I thought it might tonally be easier to get clean sounds with the strat.
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