Strat- jazzin it up

[oldane]

Originally Posted by rexi

I´ve been considering getting those pickups. How are they in terms of hum and noise, similar to regular strat single coils or more?

A little less than the strat PUs. To minimze hum, you may consider shielding the inside of the PU cavities and the underside of the pickguard with copper foil. I did that to a strat shaped partscaster with a single coil Vitage Vibe HCC. It's the quitest guitar I have - quiter than my two humbucker equipped guitars. Just be shure the leads don't tuch the foil - and connect the foil to the ground of the harness (the strings should be connected already via the bridge).

[Jon S]

Check out Quinten Warren on a strat and probably a brown deluxe with Jimmy Smith....nice!

Jimmy Smith - Wagon Wheels (1964) - YouTube

[jazzboob]

My strat has Chrome strings ( subbed the e and b strings with 12,15 ), Fender noiseless vintage puickups played in neck position and a Villex passive midway boost with 3 way switch played in 3rd position. It plays jazz very nicely.

[quencho092]

Originally Posted by jazzboob

My strat has Chrome strings ( subbed the e and b strings with 12,15 ), Fender noiseless vintage puickups played in neck position and a Villex passive midway boost with 3 way switch played in 3rd position. It plays jazz very nicely.

I did the same exact thing. I found an old sealed pack of chromes 11's in my room, and grabbed the plain 16? G and 13 B strings off a DR pure blues set to use as my E and B. Huge clean sound.

I also like what the flatwounds do to the playability and action. I realized that vibration radius is reduced so I could lower the action quite a bit more.

Mini humbucker is on its way too, I'm looking for a quirky jazz tone!