Single Coil METAL! Fender American Original 50's Stratocaster HIGH GAIN tones: Pure Vintage '59 pickups with Orange OR15 and Friedman PT112. Rock and roll!
Our favorite tones, without a doubt, come from this 50's Stratocaster plugged straight into an OR15 high gain. A good vintage style strat with a good high gain tube amp is truly something unique! Huge bass and high presence response, with crushing precision that is unlike anything you get from a humbucker. A frighteningly unforgiving, clear and complex sound that will amplify every scrape, ring and accent in your playing, all the while sounding extremely heavy! Dynamic is an understatement, as it will often go from very high gain to clean with pick attack alone.
And as for the noise? Well, a good vintage style strat has only a bit more noise than a copper shielded, perfectly wired, covered set of humbuckers. You can play ridiculous amounts of gain without a noise gate as long as your gear is working properly and your power is clean. Uncontrollable single coil noise with high gain is one of the biggest myths regarding electric guitars. Vintage strats do high gain. Just like any other properly working guitar.
Try it for yourselves, grab that single coil armed axe and plug it straight into that burly high gain machine! You need to feel this, we need more single coil high gain tones out there!
FAQ single coil related:
- yes, there are no rules to great tone, except one: experiment!
- yes, even vintage single coils can get crushing tones with heavy gain
- yes, inherent single coil noise is very low, crank that gain and thrash!
- yes, rolling back the tone knob will remove whatever little noise there is
- yes, it will clean up from death metal gain to clean with just the volume knob
- yes, their high end is unforgiving to mistakes, practice well!
- yes, all pickup positions can do cutting rhythm and lead very well
- yes, it's a very nice yet unique tone, play it to master it!
FAQ vintage style strat/guitar related:
- yes, any good guitar can be set for low clean action, vintage spec is no exception
- yes, nitro is shred approved, just clean it with a cotton cloth and it's smooth
- yes, baseball bat necks are very comfortable even for fast playing
- yes, chunky necks are very, very stable, relief is set and forget
- yes, a well made and set up vintage guitar holds tune perfectly
- yes, a 6 point trem works quite well, but you can deck it very easily too
- yes, experiment and play whatever you like. That's the meaning of it all!
The Rig:
- Fender American Original 50's Stratocaster
- Orange OR15 (15W, preamp dimed, TMB at 1 o'clock, master at 8:30)
- Friedman PT112 (with Celestion G12M 65 Creamback)
- Shure SM57 and Sennheiser E906 (edge of dustcap, on the grill)
- Presonus Studio 68C
- Audacity
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