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<supertwangreverb@y...> wrote:
> Alright you're right, but it was on stage :). I have heard it on
> recordings so my original statement still stands. So Ivan, with a
> few mods to my American Standard do you think I could get it in the
> same ballpark as your Stat Plus?
sure. All I did on my Strat Plus is try to somewhat emulate the
vintage reissue specs - '57/'62 pickups, vintage tremolo, standard
Strat nut. You already have the standard nut, so that part is done.
The only two things that remain are the pickups and the tremolo. I
don't know how close the AmStd pickups are to the '57/'62 pickups,
you could do some research on this. But it's not expensive to buy a
set of '57/'62 reissue pickups on eBay, and they sound great. I'm a
huge fan of them, having tried Texas Specials, Lace Sensors, and
Seymour Duncan Alnico II Pros.
As far as the bridge, here is a link for you:
This is Kinman's site, who makes the noiseless single-coil pickups
used by Hank Marvin, among others. He's a very respectable luthier,
and I'd highly recommend checking his entire site in detail, since he
has all sorts of good recommendations. But he explains the big tone
difference between the vintage trem and the modern two-point AmStd
tremolo found on many new Strats, including yours. There's probably
nothing that you can do (outside of changing the pickups) that'll
change the tone of your Strat as much as swapping the tremolo with
Fender's own vintage one. In addition, my Strats stay in tune for
weeks, even months, even though I use the tremolo all the time. If
you have the proper setup, they work very well indeed. And they
sound great. (I had a guitar tech do it for me, cause there's some
woodwork involved, and I can't do that stuff. I'd also recommend
finding somebody really good that would do that, since the placement
of the bridge is very important for the guitar.)
Obviously, my Strat Plus is still not the same as a vintage reissue:
it has Spertzels (I kept them, cause they work really well, and don't
affect the sound at all), it has 22 frets, the neck shape is
different and it has a skunk stripe, the shape of the body is slighly
different (and now I find that the wood situation may be somewhat
different as well). But for all the major things that affect the
tone, it's pretty much the same. I love the feel of it, but more
importantly I love the sound of it now.
Hope that helps.
Ivan
