Gibson SG Standard or Fender American fat strat?

Hi guys! I am on the look out for my next guitar. This is what I want, either a fat strat with low output humbucking pickups or an SG Standard with low output humbucking pickups. I play classic rock, classic hard rock, 80s rock, lots of 90s risk and hard rock plus grunge, and some modern alt rock. The band I am in is a 90s cover band called Pearl Garden and we cover things like Smashing Pumkins, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, STP, Tool, Alice in Chains, Matthew Sweet, Radio Head, Bush, REM, Weezer, Sound Garden, Rage Against the Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers and lots more both softer and harder.

Amps are Splawn Street Rod, PWE Event Horizon, and Bogner 20th Shiva.

Current guitars are a 2003 Fender Highway One strat with stock single coil pickups, Gibson SG with hot pickups, Gibson LP Standard with hot pickups, PRS CE-22 with hot Dragon pickups and 2012 Fender American Standard Telecaster which is stock.

Thanks.

Both are such different guitars that ordinarily I'd say that you should try both to see what style you're comfortable with...but you already have an SG and a Strat. So, I think the guitar that would be the most different from what you have now would be a Strat with a humbucker in the bridge.

This would give you a lot of versatility as you would get the "quack" of the neck and middle pickups, the "moan" of the neck pickup by itself and the humbucker sound of the bridge. In fact I have a guitar like this, with a Seymour Duncan Little '59 in the bridge and I can get pretty much any sound I want out of it using an overdrive, fuzz and Fender amp.

Very good point. I was thinking fat strat with Duncans, like the 59 or '78 or even Rio Grande BBQ or SG Standard with 57 Classics. Decisions. :)

I really like the 2008 and later Strats. Do the fat strats have a swimming pool route?

Radspin makes a great point, but I have a slightly different take.

I'd think since you already have a Strat -- and actually another Fender, too, and an SG -- and actually another Gibson, too, *and* a PRS, I'd get something totally different. I'd lean toward something hollow or semi-hollow if I were you, like a 335 or a Rick or something. For the material y'all do, you've already got the sound spectrum covered. Or you could consider an amp (not very familiar with any of yours, not sure if you're in the market) or an acoustic.

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I would go for p90's. Either SG's LP's, or even a tele. You seem to have everything else pretty much covered.

I would go for p90's. Either SG's LP's, or even a tele. You seem to have everything else pretty much covered.

Aren't P-90s noisy? I am more and more thnking fat strat and using a very low ooutput bridge humbucker. All my guitars sound great but all my humbucking guitars have hot pickups. I would even consider a G&L but they are expensive.

Radspin makes a great point, but I have a slightly different take.

I'd think since you already have a Strat -- and actually another Fender, too, and an SG -- and actually another Gibson, too, *and* a PRS, I'd get something totally different. I'd lean toward something hollow or semi-hollow if I were you, like a 335 or a Rick or something. For the material y'all do, you've already got the sound spectrum covered. Or you could consider an amp (not very familiar with any of yours, not sure if you're in the market) or an acoustic.

I do have a made in Japan Takamine stereo acoustic electric. I thought of a semi hollow but I used to have an Epiphone semi hollow, Dot. It never cut through the band mix well and was big and bulky. Plus, a nice Gibson ES-33 or 335 is expensive.

Thanks again guys for all the great advice. I decided to get another Strat. Right now I have a new Tele with Duncan Lil 59 and love it, plus a 2003 Highway strat that is amazing and is getting the Duncan Everything set. I am buying a 2003 Highway strat and am going to route out the bridge cavity for a humbucker. I want a Duncan Custom in the bridge. Eventually I will get another SG too.:)

mini-buckers, 6.2K neck 6.99K bridge.

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^^^ that has me thinking bad bad BAD thoughts.

70's Tribute. Mini Humbuckers.

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Grunge, RHCP, modern alt rock and jangly Eighties stuff? Have you considered a Jaguar?

Wow I just realized that I need an SG with Mini Humbuckers! Thanks guys!