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my two cents
i really never warmed up tp strats but a couple years ago I was recording an album so I picked up a highway one strat just for the vibrato. I hated the way it felt, strats feel cheap to me, and it sounded too thin. I ended up using it on all but two songs because it set so well in the mix.
A couple months after the album was done we were tyring to get the sound live as close to the recorded mix. I would try the strat, but I hated it live. I just couldn't hear it enough through mix. I'd end up playing my telecaster on everthing and fudging vibrato farts. there's something about telecaster bridge pickups that are really, for laxk of a better word, forceful.
I traded that strat for a MIJ 62 RI' tele
now i since do own a couple of strats , a tokai goldstar sound a nd a AMDLX Ash, just because it felt really nice.
but, along came an 86' AV 62 RI . I bought it off a friend of mine who is a strat collector. He hated it because it was too bright. But man, this is what strat tone should be. It's almost Tele like, but not quite, but in no way thin or quaky(it actually has a 3 way). If you had your eyes closed, you certainly wouldn't guess strat. Anyway, I never thought I would play a strat, but this one seems to be the one I'm grabbing of the rack the most.
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