Played a Fender American Standard Strat through my Roadking

[primal]

I must say I was extremely surprised this weekend.

My buddy brought over his mark IV and his Fender American Standard Strat which of course has the single coil in the bridge.

I set him up on my Roadking on Channel 3 Vintage. I was stunned at how metal it sounded.

Now, not to sound to ignorant when it comes to single coils, but I just assumed you couldn't nail a metal tone with it and it would be far to thin.

That was absolutely not the case. It rocked. It did have a sort of different tone quality to it that I can only describe as maybe a metalic twang, but not quite. Had a bit of a more raw sound to it.

But it sounded tight and beautiful. Now I have been browsing Ebay and Craigslist for an American Standard Strat.

I figured the clean channels would sound wonderfull, and they did. But it really shocked me how nice the drive channel sounded. Very articulate. And very heavy!

When I saw Alterbridge, Tantric opened and I thought the guitarist from Tantric was using a Strat. Atleast it looked like it anyway.

Of course the single coil was a bit noisy compared to the humbucker. But I was very impressed.

We had approximately the following settings
Gain 1:00
Treble 12:30
Mid 11:00
Bass 12:00
Presence 7:00 (practically off)
Master 11:00

Going through a 3/4 back cab with an MC90.

 

[gooberizer]

I run my 2000 American Standard into my Tremoverb for metal. I concur it is surprising how heavy it sounds. I always used all mahogany, set-neck, humbucker guitars for the heavy stuff. I never even wanted a Strat. Then I was offered one as a trade for an amp I was selling. I thought, "Why not?" Turns out it is REALLY cool. My Strat has the Delta Tone setup which has a higher output than vintage style singles. It also inspired me to break out of the stylistic rut I'd been in for a while. I would never have considered a Strat and a high gain Mesa as a good pairing, but turns out it's awesome. 8)

 

[crockett]

What would Yngwie do?

 

[jab]

the American Deluxe strat's pickups are noiseless and a bit hotter too. I use an American Fat Strat (humbucker in the bridge) and the cleans sound virtually identical to the single coils, with a little extra girth on dirty channels.

 

[Stratocaster]

I'm still very pleased with my rig. Room to grow, but gets the job done for me. Photos were from a year ago.
I've been playing alot straight into the front of the amp lately. But when I do put the loop in, the current signal path is...

Guitar
TU-2 Tuner
NS-2 Noise Suppressor
PW-10 Wah
AC-3 Acoustic Simulator
CS-3 Compression Sustainer
SD-1 Super Overdrive
Return to the NS-2, then out to the front jack of the Mesa. Out of the Mesa Effects Send, into...
BF-3 Flanger
DD-7 Digital Delay
Then to the Mesa Effects Return.
















Strat

 

[primal]

I'm still very pleased with my rig. Room to grow, but gets the job done for me. Photos were from a year ago.
I've been playing alot straight into the front of the amp lately. But when I do put the loop in, the current signal path is...

Guitar
TU-2 Tuner
NS-2 Noise Suppressor
PW-10 Wah
AC-3 Acoustic Simulator
CS-3 Compression Sustainer
SD-1 Super Overdrive
Return to the NS-2, then out to the front jack of the Mesa. Out of the Mesa Effects Send, into...
BF-3 Flanger
DD-7 Digital Delay
Then to the Mesa Effects Return.
















Strat

Sweet rig.

I have been mulling picking up a Roadking cab as well, but they are so hard to find used. And I hate paying the price for new.

At this point I am just going to focus on the strat.

 

[kingster911]

I've always been under the impression from hearing it from other people that Strats and single coils in general don't go well with Rectos, and maybe I've tried out the wrong strats on 'em at GC or maybe I just didn't crank it enough.

 

[mefgames]

primal,

I have a Am Std Strat that I put a a set of Kinman Mark IIs in with the K9 switching option, and an HX 85 in the bridge( Kinman's answer to the P90). I play it through a TremOverb. I can get any sound you could want. Kinman's are hum canceling, so there is NEVER any noise. You could probably put these pickups in any strat, MIM or AM STD, and it would sound amazing. They are a bit expensive, but they are worth it IMHO. You can give them a listen at http://www.kinman.com/

mike

 

[HappyStrat]

I have a Am Std Strat that I put a a set of Kinman Mark IIs in with the K9 switching option, and an HX 85 in the bridge( Kinman's answer to the P90). I play it through a TremOverb. I can get any sound you could want. Kinman's are hum canceling, so there is NEVER any noise. You could probably put these pickups in any strat, MIM or AM STD, and it would sound amazing. They are a bit expensive, but they are worth it IMHO. You can give them a listen at http://www.kinman.com/

Ditto to Kinman's. Put the Kinman Woodstock's in my Am Deluxe Strat, happiest day in my life with that strat. The stock SCN's sounded like crap in any amp I played through, especially the RK. Kinman's saved my Strat, cause I was surely going to dump it.