lauke-lux
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Hello. Lately I changed strings and tremolo on my strat.
Used to play with 011-052 strings since 2005 on a strat and tremolo equiped with a brass block, graph tech saddles and lollar SC dirty blonde PU. Great strat sound, nothing wrong there.
I had to go to 010-048 strings as I had the more and more difficulties with cramps during more than 1.5h sets. So far the 010's do relieve me a lot.
In the same time I changed my tremolo to a stainless Vegatrem. The feel and the playability of the vegatrem are incredible and it stays quite well in tune.
Nevertheless sound of high e and b strings in quack positions on clean sounds has lost incredibly in quack and intensity and some high end sizzle is there that I never experienced before.
Experienced a bit string sizzle on the frets but heightening the action did not change a lot. I suspected the FM3 to be the cause but no it's exactly the same on my axe fx 2.
Tried extreme amp setting (mid to 10, treble to 0..) but nothing really helps.
Any suggestions would be welcome. Next weekend I'll throw in the old tremolo to see if that helps..
The Vegatrem block is half the weight of the brass block, but as it's the springs that link the strings mechanically to the body I don't think that would be the cause.
I use Addario strings.
Any suggestions to solve this are welcome.
PS : heightening the PU did close to nothing, just a little more harsh sound
Used to play with 011-052 strings since 2005 on a strat and tremolo equiped with a brass block, graph tech saddles and lollar SC dirty blonde PU. Great strat sound, nothing wrong there.
I had to go to 010-048 strings as I had the more and more difficulties with cramps during more than 1.5h sets. So far the 010's do relieve me a lot.
In the same time I changed my tremolo to a stainless Vegatrem. The feel and the playability of the vegatrem are incredible and it stays quite well in tune.
Nevertheless sound of high e and b strings in quack positions on clean sounds has lost incredibly in quack and intensity and some high end sizzle is there that I never experienced before.
Experienced a bit string sizzle on the frets but heightening the action did not change a lot. I suspected the FM3 to be the cause but no it's exactly the same on my axe fx 2.
Tried extreme amp setting (mid to 10, treble to 0..) but nothing really helps.
Any suggestions would be welcome. Next weekend I'll throw in the old tremolo to see if that helps..
The Vegatrem block is half the weight of the brass block, but as it's the springs that link the strings mechanically to the body I don't think that would be the cause.
I use Addario strings.
Any suggestions to solve this are welcome.
PS : heightening the PU did close to nothing, just a little more harsh sound
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