Post by JohnH on Jan 1, 2013 16:03:10 GMT -5
Can we make an LP sound like a Strat? Or a Strat sound like an LP?
If you want to ask why we would wish to do that, then the answer probably isn’t very important!
But I was curious, and realised yesterday that since both guitars have fresh strings, I could run some tests. I was quite surprised by the result.
My two main settings are neck single coil and bridge humbucker. On my Gibson LP Studio, I have PAF style pickups, with a Classic 57 at the neck and Burstbucker at the bridge, both open coil and splitable, at around 7k. My Strat has the stock pickups for HSS, being Texas Specials at 6.4k for N and M, and an 8.4k Atomic humbucker at the bridge.
Both guitars have new 10’s on them, and both were set with about a 250k load on the pickups, being a 250k volume pot for the Strat with no-load on the tone, and 500k volume and tone pots on the LP.
Recordings via a 10’ cord, partly miced and partly DI from the amp.
Neck singles, then bridge humbuckers, but the order of Strat/LP for each is random – can you pick it?
www.soundclick.com/bands/page_songInfo.cfm?bandID=674084&songID=12083882
Recordings are all normalised for level.
I was surprised how similar the two neck tones are, one being coil cut from an Hb and the other a natural single coil. The bridges sounds are more different, I like both of them.
Just for your interest
John
If you want to ask why we would wish to do that, then the answer probably isn’t very important!
But I was curious, and realised yesterday that since both guitars have fresh strings, I could run some tests. I was quite surprised by the result.
My two main settings are neck single coil and bridge humbucker. On my Gibson LP Studio, I have PAF style pickups, with a Classic 57 at the neck and Burstbucker at the bridge, both open coil and splitable, at around 7k. My Strat has the stock pickups for HSS, being Texas Specials at 6.4k for N and M, and an 8.4k Atomic humbucker at the bridge.
Both guitars have new 10’s on them, and both were set with about a 250k load on the pickups, being a 250k volume pot for the Strat with no-load on the tone, and 500k volume and tone pots on the LP.
Recordings via a 10’ cord, partly miced and partly DI from the amp.
Neck singles, then bridge humbuckers, but the order of Strat/LP for each is random – can you pick it?
www.soundclick.com/bands/page_songInfo.cfm?bandID=674084&songID=12083882
Recordings are all normalised for level.
I was surprised how similar the two neck tones are, one being coil cut from an Hb and the other a natural single coil. The bridges sounds are more different, I like both of them.
Just for your interest
John
