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Hey gents, I figure most of you are very well aquainted with pickups and fat strats given that half of us like that EVH and other 80's tones. I am looking at buying a MIM strat of some type and have a JB planned for the bridge. I'm a huge Warren Demartini fan and I love the tones he got from his neck pickup in the later Ratt stuff. Not sure if he uses those performance pickups in the neck anymore but what would give me that smooth chunky neck tone he gets? Would a duncan single coil do it? Unless I am mistaken, I don't think that pickup is as hot as a hot rail.. any suggestions? For the rest I am essentially sticking with alder body and mapel neck.

Thanks

Kapo_Polenton wrote:Hey gents, I figure most of you are very well aquainted with pickups and fat strats given that half of us like that EVH and other 80's tones. I am looking at buying a MIM strat of some type and have a JB planned for the bridge. I'm a huge Warren Demartini fan and I love the tones he got from his neck pickup in the later Ratt stuff. Not sure if he uses those performance pickups in the neck anymore but what would give me that smooth chunky neck tone he gets? Would a duncan single coil do it? Unless I am mistaken, I don't think that pickup is as hot as a hot rail.. any suggestions? For the rest I am essentially sticking with alder body and mapel neck.

Thanks

If you're staying with a single coil size pickup, and you're gonna stick with Duncans, I think a Cool Rails would fit the bill.
http://www.seymourduncan.com/products/e ... rails_for/
They sound nice and punchy, and because they're blade type pickups, there's no problems with string/polepiece alignment, and no dropout when string bending. They dont sound purely single coil-like, and not like a full size humbucker either. Sorta in the middle.

Thanks! gonna check it out.. that is pretty much what I want. I want to avoid sounding like i have a humbucker in the neck.. but its got to have some power as well.

I'm going to add another question to the topic.

I know EVH liked to mount the bridge humbucker directly to the body, but typically, do strats only have the mounting screw mounted to the pickgaurd where it doesn't touch the body?