Fender American Strat through the mark V

[ibanez77]

Has anyone had any experience with this set up? If so, how did you find it in all three channels? Help is greatly appreciated.

 

[screamingdaisy]

Strat + Boogie = The most smokin' lead tones I've ever heard.

 

[sted]

Im gonna get shot for this.......

I really adore it through the clean, tweed and crunch mode, dont like it at all in any of channel 3 modes though, its probably just not enough time spent with the two together but I just find it too grating with the higher gain channels.
Of course if anyone has some good settings then im all for getting my mind changed on this, I love strats and it does nigg;e that I cant get a good feel with mine in Ch3.

 

[golfnguitarz]

I have a couple of strats, plenty to love in channels 1 and 2. Haven't spent much time in channel 3 with the strats, but I just don't think their pickups handle high gain as well. It's not to say you can't find something in channel 3, but I think you have to be realistic and back off the gain a bit.

 

[screamingdaisy]

I think it depends on what you're expecting out of channel 3.

If you're expecting high gain blues lead tones, or maybe a little bit of Santana, you'll probably be happy.

If you're expecting to play Metallica on a bridge single coil... you probably won't be impressed.

 

[eudaimonia02912]

Try turning the gain down and mids up on channel 3.

 

[Mork]

I play a Jeff Beck signature Strat but that has hot noiseless pickups. It sounds fantastic through all three channels. I had sumarian cobalt pickups in my Deluxe but swapped them out for a set of hot noiseless so I have a useable spare. (The sumarian cobalt picups sounded dull through the V). I have a Kahler Strat with standard pickups in HSS format, the single coils sound a bit thin, definitely clean twangy territory but the humbucker sounds amazing (although the amp is set up for the hot pickups as that's my go to guitar).

 

[smd24fan]

Just got a new American Deluxe a couple of months back. LOVE it through the Mark V, especially in Ch.2 MK 1.

 

[jjboogie]

Just got a new American Deluxe a couple of months back. LOVE it through the Mark V, especially in Ch.2 MK 1.

Does your strat have the N3 noiseless pickups in it?

Do you have any soundclips? I may be getting a set. Would love to hear them!

 

[bartchamdoh]

Doesn't handle the gain on channel 3?My strat rips on the lead channel of my mark 3 lol.

 

[ixoye777]

I love my strat on CH 1 & 2 but I also don't much care for it on channel 3.

 

[eudaimonia02912]

My Strat has Texas Specials. One thing I've noticed with it is that it's very easy to get good sounds on Mark I mode with the Strat as compared to my other guitars. The extra brightness helps prevent that mode from being too boomy and flubby.

 

[sted]

My Strat has Texas Specials. One thing I've noticed with it is that it's very easy to get good sounds on Mark I mode with the Strat as compared to my other guitars. The extra brightness helps prevent that mode from being too boomy and flubby.

Thats a very good point actually, my old strat had TS and I reckon they would be ideal on the Mark 1 mode, hmmm....