Which Stratocaster is the Best?

you can use anything for that, lmost every pedal cuts bass and many have some sort of mid hump. They all do other things too. I like dynacomps personally.... or sued to. I just plug right into the amp anymore, fuck all this pedal bullshit. If I don't like my sound I'll pay better, that's usuall the real problem.

lol, it's true. ive been really having fun experimenting with tone, and it's helped me get to a super creative point, but then i realized all my best writing is doneon an acoustic anyway

but yeah, clapton strat, sounds dumb when other people play it... you're thinking it'll replace a tubescreamer into a blackface or silverface but it just doesn't, it soudns goofy as fuck into everything but a tweed fender or an old marshall

i hear you. lmao at whoever thinks it's a good idea to run that guitar into a vox

i hear you. lmao at whoever thinks it's a good idea to run that guitar into a vox

electronically a vox is just flat, not mid ehavy... every amp with tone controls just has a mid scoop no matter where you set the controls. Actually, the top boost is mid scooped but its not as pronounced as a lot of toehr amps. I guess there are a few tweeds with 2 or 3 band controls thata ren't heavily scooped at all possible settings, like the pro/super/bandmaster... then there's ampeg and orange with teh baxandall that's flat with both cotnrols at 50, but that's another story. I think we're so used to eharing blackface fenders which are powerfully midscooped even with everythign at zero that everything else soudsn like varying degrees of mid bump

i just feel like vox mids are magic all their own. they need 0 kind of boost to be magical... all that swirl O.O

that's the lack of engative feedback to stabilize the circuit.... sicne it doesn't need that then tehre's nothing cancelling the harmonics out and being cathode biased and tube rectified the 15 and 30 will definitely be compressing and adding lots of harmonics. but the preamp is also flatter. Even the top boost cna eb made pretty flat with both controls at zero

the flatness of voxes is actually fascinating, and i love the sound. i neeeeeeed one

jaguars are cool but they're just castrated strats. much prefer jazzmasters. interesting take on a tele over strat. they're too heavy for me but the tone is fantastic so i see where you're coming from.

jaguars are cool but they're just castrated strats. much prefer jazzmasters. interesting take on a tele over strat. they're too heavy for me but the tone is fantastic so i see where you're coming from.

yeah, jags and mustangs aren't even the same scale as a strat, and although the stang and jaguar have very strat lie pickups stock they are their own sound just due to the differing string tension. If the OP asked for strats its not fair to emntion fenders ina short scale. Personally I can't hardly get my fingers in the upper frets on those guitars. I really like them but they're too small for me. There may be a hand size reason the OP asked about strats. I have a friend with such large hands he can't really play gibson scale (24 3/4")

it is all preference maybe try them at a guitar store

no one shops instruments in person anymore, do they?

i do, but only because i like buying vintage used. and if i dont buy it in person then i mke sure to line up a buyer before i even get it myself

My Strat is the best. MiM '04 Standard Strat, all stock. This lil' beaut (Midnight Wine, them what wonder) will wail, scream, sing, howl, and whisper. These days I'm a bit tight on space, so I'm running it through a Vox Pathfinder 15R if I'm playing it outside of my computer/recording station. Inside, I use amp simulation/cab simulation and run it through Vox AC30s (yes, plural) with chours on one, phaser on the other.

It is an amazing sound, very hollow, very... just bliss.

My Strat is the best. MiM '04 Standard Strat,

lies! my strats are best! LOLjimmy vaughan form 99? not sure... and 2005 or 6 robert cay in silver. My silver guitars are all the ebst guitars because they're... wait for it... silver. Getting the silver les paul out later to do 90s industrial guitars.

Mine are wine red. Which automatically is better than silver because it has wine in the name. Wine. Mmm... Red wine. Merlot. Malbec. Leggy reds, with a nice full body. Dry, drier, driest. Good wines. Fine wines.

But seriously, I do prefer the MiM to the American--it's got a thicker, warmer tone, and that leands to a more "hollow" sound in the neck position than the hot pickups on an American. That's just my 2 pence worth though.

If we're talking best single coils in general though, my 1966 Vox V241 wins hands down. It's the best guitar. Full Stop. Read my totally unbiased review of it for proof! :D