Strats

Maccattack

How do you guys feel about Stratocasters?

I personally dont like them but believe it or not Im considering getting one. :rolleyes:

I dont like the look of them particularly and every tone setting on them sounds like a cliche.

But they are versatile arent they. They also have good access to the higher frets which is important to me at present.

I was also considering an ES335 but maybe the strat would be less bulky and more versatile.

what do you guys think. Do you like strats?


Dont forget to vote..

Karl Hungus

I'm not mad on them. I was considering getting one a while ago, but that's passed.

I've voted no, but that's just to say "Not for me" rather than saying they're crap.

lethal dose

No

Ok , I've not owned as much good gear as most but it's by far the best guitar I've owned. I've no intention of letting it go, the neck on it is fantastic and fits great. Still I so fancy something with humbuckers as a second guitar. Oh it's a 91' us deluxe plus by the way.

Doctor J

No

Everybody should have at least one strat. Great guitars and refreshingly different from relentless humbuckering

Den_M

No

I like super strats!

Ancient1

No

I don't like Strats.

feylya

No

Doctor J wrote:

Everybody should have at least one strat. Great guitars and refreshingly different from relentless humbuckering

This man speaks the truth and this man:

Ancient1 wrote:

I don't like Strats.

is also right. He freaking loves them. And now, I'm going to get a strat. Pics soon.

Kenny_D

No

I sold a really nice Les Paul to get a strat and was much happier with the strat. I'll prob buy another les paul (and a tele) in the future but i'm happiest with a strat at the moment

fish-head

No

You know I don't really know. They're a bit plain.. and the hum offa them can drive me nuts. Sometimes I really love the singlecoil tone though.. I'm mostly a big guitar man though. I like big hunks of wood.

The Freeman

No

i bought a 68 reissue 3 tone sunburst strat with texas special's:D from ishibashi recently and have a les paul too...i find the strat a more comfortable to play and lighter too(i got a bad back)..but every guitarist should have a humbucking and single coiled guitar.........

Voodu Child

I think the strat was a mind-bogglingly good invention by old Leo. Very rare in the world does something come along which more or less establishes the form and function for that invention for the next fifty years.

The main reason i dont play strats much is that I value function above everything else, and there are a few functional improvements that i gravitate towards - 24 frets, better neck joint, locking trem, flatter radius. If fender came out with a strat that had these features, id buy one in a shot. (All these features at once, obviously)

I do love and appreciate the heritage and history of the strat, its just not for me.

Rustar

No

Nothing else in the world sounds like searing single coils on a plain resonant plank of wood.

It's the only place I can go to get my favorite sound ever, the Hendrix/Vaughan/Trower neck pickup with heavy overdrive sound.

When I play anything even remotely connected to the blues, I just naturally reach past the Schecter and grab the Strat.

Quattroste

No

I'm with the "everyone should have a single coil and a humbucking guitar" or two of one and one of the other, or two of both.

Once you have a Strat and a LesPaul(esque) guitar you can get just about any tone you want. No need for all that pointy guitar sh1te

Savman

No

Strat is cool, make no mistake :cool::cool::cool:

MagnumForce

Den_M wrote:

I like super strats!

I second that! my favorite being the 1986 Charvel Model 4, now all i need to go is get me hands on one!

I'm not a fan of Fender's at all. Strats bore me, I dont like how they look, they can have a good sound, but i dont like how they feel either, Give me a nice Super Strat any day!

I'll say one thing for the Strat...at least it's not a Tele!

Hmm, the word Strat is losing meaning ive said it so much. Strat, Strat, Strat, Strat, Strat!

ferdi

No

for me, strat is the all time daddy, the number one.

The Freeman

No

and leo fender couldn't even play a guitar and it COULD be the most sold guitar in the world, now thats pretty amazing.

Voodu Child

Quattroste wrote:

Once you have a Strat and a LesPaul(esque) guitar you can get just about any tone you want. No need for all that pointy guitar sh1te

Eh, theres an awful lot more to a guitar than tone - weight, upper fret access, range, trem, vibrato ease, bending range before a not chokes, plus a load more i cant think of. A strat and a les paul by no means cover 'any' situation.

Thats one of the most cliche things guitar players say - "Theres strats, and LPs, and everything in between." Its just plain wrong.

Quattroste

No

voodoo_child wrote:

Eh, theres an awful lot more to a guitar than tone - weight, upper fret access, range, trem, vibrato ease, bending range before a not chokes, plus a load more i cant think of. A strat and a les paul by no means cover 'any' situation.

Thats one of the most cliche things guitar players say - "Theres strats, and LPs, and everything in between." Its just plain wrong.

Sorry Voodoo. I should have said any tone I want

What you have mentioned there would bore the crap out of me and take the fun out of playing!

I'll never be a professional

Karl Hungus

Quattroste wrote:

No need for all that pointy guitar sh1te

Them's fightin' words!

feylya

No

I got my strat earlier. It makes me do a happy in my pants Seriously, it feels and sounds different to every other guitar I own. Exactly what I need

Giblet

No

My strat sounds like no other guitar, it's great and it's MEXICAN! ARIBA!

jcoote

No

strat+ good playing = people take u seriously as a musician.

instead of all this pointy guitar shredding ****e

edit: i'm just jealous i love the pointy guitars but its just no right playing paul weller songs on them

Don1

What about a "like the look not the sound" or "sometimes yes sometimes no" option?

punchdrunk

No

i've got a mij 57 re issue i got off conall from MGS and it's a beaut,i put bareknuckle trilogy pickups in it and the tone is incredible

i've also got an 80's japanese squier thats fitted with a fernandes sustainer
both are great,versatile and easy to play

my new band will be giging soon enough and i think my 57ri strat will be doing alot of the work because it covers alot of ground

but my tele's and SG are what really gets my heart going!

Savman

No

jcoote wrote:

strat+ good playing = people take u seriously as a musician.

instead of all this pointy guitar shredding ****e

true!!!:D:D

-=al=-

No

i voted yes, cause, i like them.

ive an 150€ strat thats my fav guitar...

Johnny Storm

No

The bad part of Strats is that they have become almost the generic, default guitar. Having said that when you're playing a Strat you are not trying to make any kind of fashion statement, you are just playing a guitar.

There is something indefinable about Strats that makes them special. They just have a vibe. I think it may be to do with their simplicity and honesty (as well known guitar expert Johnny Giles might say) and lack of pretension. The fact that they have survived pretty much unchanged since 1954 as Voodoo_Child posted, shows something about them.

I'd be interested to know if anyone here ever owned a Strat and finally decided they really didn't like it (assuming it wasn't actually broken or something).

-=al=-

No

i grew into it, i know mine at least just managed to go through a helluva a lot of abuse and changes and customisation and still work, i duno but mine just managed to grow into a wonderfull instrument thats great to play!

I played a USA and a mexi strat in Sweeden a while back and absolulty hated them, but mine, I love

Rented Mule

No

The Freeman wrote:

i bought a 68 reissue 3 tone sunburst strat with texas special's:D from ishibashi recently and have a les paul too...i find the strat a more comfortable to play and lighter too(i got a bad back)..but every guitarist should have a humbucking and single coiled guitar.........

Does anyone else remember the HM Strat from the late 80's ??

It had a humbucker and two single coils along with a hybrid floyd rose/kahler trem system which I beleive was called a 'spyder?'.

I almost bought one around 1988 and often think that I should have at the time. Can you have post-GAS symptoms 18 years later?

{edit} just found some pics of the HM Strat (I remember better colors though)

-=al=-

No

theyre cool lookin strats, i like the richie sambora sig one too, i dont like 3 single coils ina strat, to thin, good for certains things but its nice to have the humbucker in the bridge

Sofaspud

Karl Hungus wrote:

Them's fightin' words!

KICK HIS ASS, SEA BASS!

dr.bollocko

No

I have an '84 Fender american strat. Seems to me its very hard to find any real info about strats in the eighties. A lot of cost cutting measures by fender resulted in them doing crazy things, taking out a pickup, also removing a tone knob etc. in the early eighties, I think 80 to 83. My '84 strat is a real beaut though. It cost me a good bit when I got it, in college, before I could even play guitar. And I fell in love with it like no other guitar I have bought or played since. I have an Ibanez with two gibson PAF re-issue humbuckers (I checked, the PAF sticker IS there) and also an Ibanez ag85, and I love these guitars too, but the tone out of an american strat is second to none. Once you play one you notice every single guitar part played by a strat in a song, its such a resonant tone. Single coils give a much sweeter sound in the clean channel, particularly the neck pickup. I dunno, the way the strat plays, it always encourages you to hit every note just so, bend every note perfectly, and really get into it. I have also played squiers and Mexican strats, and a few other fake strats and I have really not liked them, so it does depend on the individual guitar, I guess when its a strat, and its not YOUR strat, then you just feel like you're cheating on your guitar.
I have played humbucking strats too, u know, the bridge pickup replaced with a humbucker, I really wasnt a big fan. Lots of buzz, and the mixture of tone between bridge and middle was very poor. I like the clean original strat.
Looks wise, I could take it or leave it. Someone not au fait with guitars could pick up a pre-CBS strat and not even know that what he was holding was something special, but I like the unassuming look. It kinda throws you off, you dont expect something so sweet from such a boring package. Before I played the strat I bought, I had no intention of getting one, because I just assumed that they were boring and that everyone had one.

Now I know why everyone has one.

!_Brian_!

was never really a strat fan despite my first guitar being a strat copy. They jus dont do it for me. I dont hate em as I do tele's (fcukin horrible ugly things), just dont particurlarly like em

punchdrunk

No

tele's ugly???!!!

WFT!!!???

burn him! burn the witch!!

feylya

No

I actually agree with him. I've never liked Tele's. I'd always pick a strat over one. Except maybe for John 5's tele.

fish-head

No

Oh I would do a Tele much faster than I'd do a Strat. It's so simple and effective! Two pieces of wood, some bits of metal and electricy bits and some strings..

feylya

No

Just like a strat but they took some time and made the strat attractive and comfortable to play.

fish-head

No

I find the brutish plainness endearing.. It's the Hoss of the guitar world.

The_g-man

No

I've probably posted this before but I swear someone was asking about an american strat with floyd rose. There is one in MusicMaker, pewter with black pickguard and two humbuckers for €1150.

feylya

No

Nice but I wouldn't pay that for it.

The_g-man

No

Musicstore had a highway 1 that had floyd and 24 frets for about €7/800 but apparently it was a one off deal, they were never re-stocked.
Personally, I love my strat. It's the first guitar I owned that just needed one strum and you knew it was quality. First of many hopefully.:rolleyes:

VCK

No

I like Strats but I think they're a bit too plain.

Eoin Madsen

No

I don't like the look of strats, and I don't like floating bridges. But a good strat sounds quite nice.

Don1

This Geroge Fulerton signature G&L Strat would do it for me but somtimes I look at them and go, "speeeewwwww". Depends on my mood on the day.

LundiMardi

Strats sound awesome, but i prefer the look and feel of the Les Paul, mine just feels awesome and i prefer the neck on a les paul to a strat.

Karl Hungus

As far as Strats go, this is damned sexy:

feylya

No

I saw that earlier but it's a bit too gawdy imo.

Karl Hungus

I can see how you'd think that, but I like it because Strats are generally very boring looking. Or at least I think they are.

Savman

No

Horses for courses.

Johnny Storm

No

Karl Hungus wrote:

As far as Strats go, this is damned sexy:

Beautiful wood but personally I have a horror of those tortoise pickguards or whatever they are.