Noiseless "singlecoils"

[susiwong]

I think you will have the most luck using the Neck bucker and also i recommend swapping out the 500K ohm tone pot for a strat like 250K ohm pot which will allow you a tad more brightness on the neck pickup but the downside is the bridge position will be overly bright with the tone full on.

Wouldn't the opposite happen? I thought you're suppose to put in a 1 Meg pot to open the guitar up like that.

Correct, the higher the pot value the brighter the tone as the resonant peak shifts.
Cheers,
susiwong

[Uncle E]

Add to that the scale length. Scale length makes a big difference, both in clarity (a 25 1/2" scale guitar's going to have a more precise sound) and in tone (due to the location of the pickups). 22 vs 24 fret necks are also a factor- once again due to pickup placement.

You'd be surprised at how Les Paul-like my ash body strat sounds with Lil' 59's. I wouldn't be surprised if Seymour Duncan voiced the pickup specifically for that effect.

[Dean Aka Nekro]

you could also bang a tremolno in thier on the Ibanez (bit like what that big chucky guy Mick Thomson from Slipknot does called the 'Fixed Edge bridge'!).

My RG420 has had its bridge "fixed" but I didn't notice it change the sound all that much.

I think you will have the most luck using the Neck bucker and also i recommend swapping out the 500K ohm tone pot for a strat like 250K ohm pot which will allow you a tad more brightness on the neck pickup but the downside is the bridge position will be overly bright with the tone full on.

Wouldn't the opposite happen? I thought you're suppose to put in a 1 Meg pot to open the guitar up like that.

Its not to open it up but rather to allow a little bit more high's through at the neck but as i said the bridge postition will sound like shit (1 meg yes you could use, but it wouldn't get any brighter which i am talking about because a neck bucker as your main pickup is usually a bit too dull IMO)

Dean

[susiwong]

Add to that the scale length. Scale length makes a big difference, both in clarity (a 25 1/2" scale guitar's going to have a more precise sound) and in tone (due to the location of the pickups).

When you have the chance to compare a 6120 and a Falcon this effect becomes really obvious, extremely similar guitars apart from the scale, very different feel and tone.
Cheers,
susiwong

[Uncle E]

Just a quick post: we got a letter from Seymour Duncan saying that they're coming out with a Hot Stack Plus at NAMM. The description of it sounds very cool. Has anyone tried the Classic Stack Plus yet?

Merry Christmas, btw!