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Anyone have strat with a humbucker in the neck like Elliot Randall



Elliot is most famous for his studio work with Steely Dan and many others



I think you will recognize the sound of his strat

beatbyrd wrote:inglorious bathtubs

Biscuti and Snow have paid their dues. Ivan and Jake simply have not received their invoices yet.

jdogric12 wrote:Biscuti and Snow have paid their dues. Ivan and Jake simply have not received their invoices yet.

Hmmm, one duo sounds like an accounting firm and the other like a WWE tag team.

(in amateur philosopher mode): Invoice amounts seem to vary wildly from person to person, except for the final one.

LOL!

Still paying-sheesh!

My posts are friendly now, c'mon, nowhere near a smackdown, and aren't meant as such. Sorry if I don't just "drink the kool-aid" around here on everything people post.

Here's one of mine. . .

Nice brown-face amps, Paul! You really do need to use those, more often; wonderful sounding tremolo on them.

jps wrote:Nice brown-face amps, Paul! You really do need to use those, more often; wonderful sounding tremolo on them.

I use them on occasion. Only one's a real brown face Twin; another is a 40th anniversary Blackface Twin RI in blonde tolex, and the other brown face plate
is actually an early 70s silver face that was modded to black face specs, with the brown face look, and to half power and a hi/lo setting, with a tube rectifier, as well as the brown face style tremolo. That style tremolo is definitely different from the black face amps, though I must admit I prefer stronger choppiness of the black face tremolo circuit.

I am really bonding with the Strat. I tried recording a 20-second jazz solo on a Jazzmaster. I gave up after 20 takes and picked up the Strat. Nailed it in 2 takes.

"Cleveland Park" if you're curious to hear it...

http://www.reverbnation.com/metrosongsbyjasonmendelson

Really! I've never been able to get a decent jazz tone from my Stratocaster. My Telecaster is another story, BEAUTIFUL jazz tone.

Nice song, by the way. Beautiful, mellow feel

Any guitar can be "jazzy". Roll off the tone. Close your eyes. Instant Joe Pass.

sloop_john_b wrote:Any guitar can be "jazzy". Roll off the tone. Close your eyes. Instant Joe Pass.

Agreed John..............but let's face it, not everyone who aspires to....... can actually play jazz. Nice work JDog. I would be honoured to play guitar with you sometime, after I have finished paying my blues and jazz dues. Hopefully the final payment is not made at the crossroads.

I was recently reading on TGP a question along the lines of "Why has jazz guitar tone remained unchanged for decades?" referring to the tone-down sound most think of a la Wes or Joe. But plenty of folks chimed in and mentioned lots of other players, Metheny, etc who have done something completely different. So I left the tone up for this one! But I think I did throw the pickup switch towards me, if not all the way. I can't remember what setting I used. I'm sure someone can listen and tell me.

So for all you people who wish the Beatles would tell us what settings they used on their guitars and amps for all their recordings.... see, I can't even remember what I did last week!!!

Of course that's true J. I really believe any guitar can do anything, limited perhaps only by number of frets or having no cutaway or that sort of thing.

If you hand me a one-pickup Charvel with a Kahler I'll play you some Chet Atkins on it.