Please tell me in the comments what pickups you think I've got in here. ALSO: What are YOUR favorite Strat pickups? Please list details of your Strat (body/neck wood, etc) in your comment as well.

I'm running this alder body Original Senn Fullerton with a rosewood slab neck, vintage style frets, and a Suhr backplate system. A slab neck is when a thicker piece rosewood is planed flat on the back and joined to a flat surface on the front of the maple neck. You can see this clearly in the video. Fender did this '59-'62-ish, I believe, before they started laminating a thinner piece of rosewood over the curved maple neck. With a lam neck, the maple neck is radiused, and the rosewood is laminated to it. You can tell lam boards by the way the rosewood follows the fretboard radius at the nut. ANYWAY...

I REALLY like these pickups, especially for session work. They just sound "bigger" to me without being dark or losing too much classic Stratocaster character.. The neck is nice and throaty and articulate. The bridge is bright and jangly but lacks any and all ice pick. The middle pickup is fat and barks. If I had to mention a downside, it would be that they don't *quite* do the quack in positions 2 and 4 as well as traditionally low-output Strat pickups. (That should be a pretty good hint as to what I'm running.) ANY GUESSES? Anyway, here I am using this on a session at Omnisound Studios in Nashville, TN. The signal chain for this slide part:

• Original Senn Fullerton
• Morgan Shadow Fuzz
• Xotic RC Booster
• Eventide H9 (spring reverb patch)
• Lazy J 20 5E3 tweed deluxe

My volume knob is rolled back a bit to clean up the fuzz. I really like how fuzzes that clean up well can have that clean sound, but it sounds wider and fatter than when the fuzz is off.

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