RevDrucifer
Fractal Fanatic
I’ve primarily been a metal guy for a while and all my guitars have humbuckers which don’t really lend themselves to getting Strat-style tones. I’m a major Gilmour and EJ fanboy and was really wanting to cop some of those tones, so when a Classic 50’s Strat popped up for $300 locally, I picked it up on my lunch break.
After getting it cleaned and set-up, I plugged it in and almost immediately was blown away. With the hi-gain metal stuff I normally do, you tend to overlook some of the more in-depth tones that you can get out of the AxeFX, but when you start getting into those break-up tones, especially when you’re on the neck pickup and just digging in, man, that’s somethin’ else.
This was also the first time I ran through the stock presets and really enjoyed the majority of them. My main guitar is an Ibanez JEM with Dimarzio Evolutions and those pickups are just so high-output that when I went through the stock presets originally, I was like “WTF?“, then with the Strat I could actually hear why they were included. It was one of the first times I just played and didn’t tweak a single thing in the AxeFX, just scrolled through presets.
I guess I’m going to have to get a guitar with P-90’s to see what else I’m missing!
In the spirit of a NGD and us being guitar geeks-
Budda- if you see this, you’re disqualified from the MG.org post!
After getting it cleaned and set-up, I plugged it in and almost immediately was blown away. With the hi-gain metal stuff I normally do, you tend to overlook some of the more in-depth tones that you can get out of the AxeFX, but when you start getting into those break-up tones, especially when you’re on the neck pickup and just digging in, man, that’s somethin’ else.
This was also the first time I ran through the stock presets and really enjoyed the majority of them. My main guitar is an Ibanez JEM with Dimarzio Evolutions and those pickups are just so high-output that when I went through the stock presets originally, I was like “WTF?“, then with the Strat I could actually hear why they were included. It was one of the first times I just played and didn’t tweak a single thing in the AxeFX, just scrolled through presets.
I guess I’m going to have to get a guitar with P-90’s to see what else I’m missing!
In the spirit of a NGD and us being guitar geeks-
Budda- if you see this, you’re disqualified from the MG.org post!
I was a humbucker-only guy for years, then started playing in a band where SSS Strats fit many of the songs better. Then I tried a P-90 guitar and all hell broke loose. 