Strat Neck

In this video, famed guitar pickup winder Lindy Fralin personally demonstrates a set of his Blues Special Strat replacement pickups against a set of his new Hum Canceling Split Blade Strat Replacements (Blues Output).

The new Split Blades are a fully hum-bucking replacement for Strat® style pickups with all the high-end clarity you expect from a traditional single coil. They are available in three outputs (Vintage, Blues and High Output) and two colors (white and black). All 3 sets come with a 10% stronger bridge.

This comparison is not scientific but it was recorded in a controlled environment with virtually no enhancement. The signal path for this demo was as follows:
Guitar, VVT Lindy Fralin model amp with 1/15″, SM57 mic’ed about 18″ off the grill cloth, RNC Compressor, Mackie XDR preamp, Apogee Duet, Logic Pro on a Macbook Pro. The signal was recorded dry although a very slight amount of compression was added to reduce clipping and a slight plate reverb was added in Logic Pro for spatial enhancement. Otherwise the sound you hear is the pure, unaltered sound of the pickups through the amp with the volume set on about “3″. Learn more about these pickups at www.fralinpickups.com

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Just got done building my All USA Custom Strat. Im playing through The Clean Channel on my Fender SuperChamp XD. Dont mind the sloppy playing as im not strong enough to play 11’s yet.

Fender 69 Custom Shop Pickups
2008 American Standard Neck
Callaham Vintage S Tremolo-5 springs in back
Schaller Brushed Aluminum Locking Tuners
06 Highway One strat Body

Set up with daddario 11’s

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Goran custom Guitars Vintage Strat Set Pickups Demo
by Sasa Randjelovic – Randja (Neverne Bebe) Part 1
Guitars: Fender Road Worn `50s
Amp: Fender Princeton Reverb
OD Pedal: Fat Boy Drive by Goran Custom Guitars

http://www.goranguitars.com/

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To all of us who have been searching for that sweet sound!

This video is to help you decide.

These are the deal,
No Lindy Fralin, No DiMarzio, no Custom Shop, and definitely to with crappy Texas Specials.

Stay away from them, Seymour Duncan California 50’s set is the real vintage strat tone.
So true that even Mr. John Frusciante has them on his vintage strats (and before he discovered that he thought they were originals)

These pups are not to bright, neither to muddy, neither to warm, or whatever. Perfect balance.
If you can’t get an awesome tone out of them you have serious problems

Got this sound just plugging a 1991 American Fender Strat with All Parts SMO-V neck, and vintage callaham bridge straight through an 15 watts vox amp.

Amp
Vox Pathfinder 15 watts

This ends the quest for tone.

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Usual i-mac recording. I know it’s a little primitive, and I gotta find a way to remove the limiter in i-movie. It always messes with the dynamics and fullness of the recording. I’m playing very quiet so the bass is lacking a bit!

That being said, the demo still gives a pretty fair feel for these pickups and amp I think.

I’m playing Ron Ellis 50/60 pickups into my RedPlate BlackVerb, with the drive channel engaged for better harmonics at low volume. Again; In the room it was noticeable bigger and fuller sounding, so please forgive the recording on that matter.

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American standard strat with Texas Special pickups. Clean. Currently for sale on eBay until Jan 9th, 2009.

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http://www.dolphinstreet.com Here is a clip from my SX SST 62 Strat copy (got it for $99.99 with amp, tuner, DVD, etc) in which I installed a set of Fender Custom Shop 54 pickups. Let me know what you think of the tone. I had the pickups left over from another project so I thought I might as well install them in this one.

To improve the feel of the neck, I sanded the back of the neck and I oiled it with Tru-oil, and used 0000 steel wool to finish with.

See http://www.dolphinstreet.com for more video clips and guitar lessons.

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A Little taste of how great Sheptone Pickups sound! Here is the strat set – PAF set coming soon…

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A few Strats with various pickups

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Hello all,

here a video to quickly demonstrate the the pickups on this stratocaster, with the 5 ways switch.

I used my blues Junior amp, red repeat delay and a little of MXR Dynacomp.

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