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I have an American Fender Strat. It's all stock. Is there a pickup option that will give me a les paul sound and still be able to have the strat sound?


Originally Posted by wbarbourI have an American Fender Strat. It's all stock. Is there a pickup option that will give me a les paul sound and still be able to have the strat sound?

Hey Wbarbour! Welcome to the the Forum!!!

As an FYI we can help you better if you'll tell us a bit more about your rig.
Unfortunately pup's can get you a feel and sound, but you'll have about the same luck of squeezing blood from a stone.

But to get you closer I'll give you a few recomendations.

First of all read up on the Everything pup set for strats. It's made to offer you humbucking and SC sounds, but with no noise.

Neck Slot is a Lil 59 nice and warm full neck bucker sound

Middle Slot Duckbucker lots of strat-like quack but with no hum

Bridge Slot JBjr. Gives you a fat thick high output bucker sound.

The lil 59 and JBjr would be your best bets to get something resembling classic bucker tone, but without the mahogany neck, and set neck it will never be dead on. A Hot Rails will give you a ton of low end and lots of output which might give you more of the LP ballsy sound, whereas the Cool rails gives you a bluesly bucker meets single coil sound.

Hope that helps

Luke

Hi ho and welcome!

Aside from the pickup advice given by Mr Luke, I'll add that no pickup is going to transform your strat into a Les Paul, simply because there are other factors that determine the sound of a guitar - scale length, body materials, neck materials, body shape and the way the neck joins onto the body - ALL of which tend to be different between a strat and an LP. Whilst you cna get a strat to sound absolutely superb and rawkin, it's never gonna be a Les Paul clone. Anyways, let us know what you decide to do.

Welcome.

I agree with everything that's been said previously. Another thing to keep in mind is the fact that full sized humbuckers tend to sound fatter than their strat-sized counterparts. If you have the room underneath the pickguard, go with the full sized humbucker of your choice.


Originally Posted by Benjy_26Welcome.

I agree with everything that's been said previously. Another thing to keep in mind is the fact that full sized humbuckers tend to sound fatter than their strat-sized counterparts. If you have the room underneath the pickguard, go with the full sized humbucker of your choice.

and remember you can always split the humbucker to try to get a single coil sound even though it won't nail it exactly.


Originally Posted by wbarbourI have an American Fender Strat. It's all stock. Is there a pickup option that will give me a les paul sound and still be able to have the strat sound?Just the dilima EVH had, lol.Change the bridge out for a bucker!
Or get a really really really mean single coil.