🤣I'm on my way there myself. I have a PRS NF3, two PRS Silver Sky's, a Suhr Classic S Antique, and I'm looking at LSL and Danocaster now. I'm doing the same with Telecasters, except I actually do have one Custom Shop Fender Tele, but next will probably be a Suhr, or PRS NF53...🤔
Really enjoyed this. I think all my favorite channels touch on "why this gear works for me?" Not looking for someone else's answers for myself, more just interested in how the process is different for each of us. Loved this. Very casual, dare I say, almost "vloggy", conversational. You do this well. Keep 'em coming.
Love your videos. Your playing and sense of humor are first class but what really gets me is how your guitars are always so well intonated and in tune. I often have to stop watching some guys because they just keep banging away when they are out of tune.
I come from a metal background and I've played a lot of guitars in my life, but a lot of them were built to shred. Last weekend I finally played a Custom Shop Journeyman Strat at my local shop, I knew as soon as they handed it to me that I was in trouble. It's a super unique spec that they special ordered and it turned me into a different guitar player. It's not my favorite color, it's not a brand I usually chase, it's WAY more than I ever would spend on a strat, yet here I am pinching pennies trying to make it happen because you only bond with a guitar like that a few times in a life...
Ended up touring with a Suhr Strat and Duesenberg Starplayer this year. Both great guitars and I %100 agree with Shawn on how the different guitars draw out different sounds of you as a player. That Duesenberg is so solid the whole way through I tend to play calmer and more planted cause the guitar carries so much. The Suhr is so much lighter I start to throw it around, but due to it's great construction I find it doesn't act up when I'm getting into it like some of my vintage stuff.
Zach & Maggie I had the Doozy starplayer. Well made but did not fit my hand it hurt my thumb consistently. It was not for me in sound, feel and for me overly big. Felt plasticky. Didn’t care for the hbs either. Just my opinion.
@@joerobinson6199 Yeah I found guys either love them or hate them. I will say I wasn't a fan until I tried the no f-hole starplayer with the split single coil on the neck.
Fender Eric Johnson Strat just melted into my hands and body... When playing while standing this guitar felt like part of my body... Just awesome for me...
I can appreciate your comment about initially wanting all your guitars to feel the same. I have a Clapton edition Strat with Lace Sensors in it. I played it so much it became a part of me. A few years after playing the strat, my wife bought me a Tele because I always wanted one. I wanted to learn how to chicken pick and get that country sound but yet have a versatile thicker rock style too. The Tele however has a maple finger board vs. the Strat which is rosewood. It has taken me 20 plus years of picking up the Tele and putting it down, trying it with different amps and so on to really appreciate how its made. It now serves it's own purpose and I love it but, It took so long to because I didn't force myself to play it out live, leave the strat at home and work things out. Now I'm a 2 guitar guy. lol. Thinking about a hollow body Tele with a trem now ;-)...
Yep, Suhr makes some sweet guitars. Love the feel and the tone. Suhr is one of the few that has a certain feel when the tone comes out. Extremely responsive and articulate. That's a great looking Friedman. Lots of Relic'd models out three. That's the first straight up model I've seen played and working. Thanks.
I completely agree. I bought a Classic Antique S a few months ago and love it. I've been a Gibson guy for about 20 some years but figured that I would give a strat a try. Like many, my first guitar was a really crummy Strat copy it didn't work well, didn't stay in tune, and was generally pain in the ass to play until I got a Charvel. I ended up getting a Gibson SG through chance and it became my number one guitar for at least 15 years. I began to buy Les Paul's as well. I'm sure that this program to me into becoming comfortable with playing shorter scale neck guitars with humbuckers. Recently, I've become obsessed with learning SRV and some fusion licks. I happened to walk into a great local Boutique guitar shop I just wanted to play offender. I had heard of Suhr and saw a pretty Sonic blue one hanging. Just like what Shawn is saying, as soon as it came off the rack it spoke to me. I didn't buy it immediately, matter of fact, I came back 3 months later and bought it as a birthday gift to myself. I couldn't be happier. I found that it is a bit temperamental in terms of slight neck movement with temperature drops and has required a little bit of truss rod manipulation. Otherwise, it's been fantastic and the only guitar that I've ever owned where I didn't think I needed to swap out pickups. It has v63 pickups which are extremely Dynamic and touch sensitive. Love them. Despite all this, Gibson is still home base. I'm taking Jazz lessons and due to my an experience in this field, I'm looking at cheap Epiphone archtop to minimize my investment in case I don't go down the rabbit hole too far.
0:33 "What's with the Strats" what a face !! :))) Without letting the guitars "dictate" too much ;-) I do agree they can be differently inspiring. The more I age, the more I tend to go towards chunkier necks. I've tried many: 1 inch super fat and extra-thin are not my thing. I had a wonderful Suhr Tele with P90's but I coudn't play its neck. Hand cramped after 15 minutes. Med .83 to 94 or LP .86 to 97 are my favorites. Also, I dig PRS's DGT: with its monster frets, it plays the most easy of them all. Plus it's very versatile in terms of tones with its 2 splittable HB's. I'm not particularly a Strat guy these days (I was in the 70's), but I kept one that I really like: a Schecter from the good years (1985) with MonsterTones and a passive parametric EQ in place of the 2nd tone pot. Very similar to what Reverend calls now the "bass contour", it allows you to practically dial all the sounds from a harsh, in-the-face tone, up to a Tele on steroids on top of the 5 usual Strat tones. Plus it's light and the neck is one of the best I've played. My shortlist is: LP 59 (not an original, JB put his hands on them all ;-)), a PRS DGT, a Collings I35 and a Tele (Thinline with SDuncan SH2 HB's). Love your vids: keep'em coming !
For me, the one guitar I knew immediately was my 62 reissue strat I bought new in February of 1983. Knowing the sales guy at the old Guitar Center in San Jose helped, as I mentioned to him that I'm under pressure to get a strat for playing R&B / Funk rather than my Les Paul, and he said "boy, do I have a guitar for you". And he wasn't kidding. Still have it, still play it, and it sounds great. Keep up the good work!
Quite a few years back I picked up a used left handed MIN Strat that the music store couldn't get rid of. The price kept dropping and it sat there forever, so i bought it. Totally uncomfortable to play, for me, but the neck was nice. A few years later i bought a used, dinged up MIM Jimmy Vaughan Strat body. Off came the left handed neck and it went onto that body. A new Tusq nut was put onto the neck, Fender locking tuners were added and a Callaham bridge was put on the body. The first pickups I put in it was the Tex-Mex pickups, I purchased a Hendrix pickguard with the neck pickup slot leaning the opposite direction. I have the same pickguard on two other Strats. Times changed and I realized that all my Strats (5) are SSS configured. So the pickups are starting to get slowly changed out. A new HSS pickguard was added and in went a Seymour Duncan Psyclone Vintage Filtertron pickup. I'm currently waiting on a Mojo Teisco copy gold foil in a single coil housing to arrive from England and a Duesenberg single coil to arrive from California that will go into the middle position. Chrome City but it should come out looking and sounding pretty unique. The interesting thing about the neck and body is that they are both from the same year (1996). The neck is slowly aging and has dark spots in the wood here and there. It looks like the guitar was put together in '96. The body is just as banged up and looks relic'd. Stays in tune really well too. I have it floating with a minor 3rd pull-up. I have roughly twenty guitars in my collection but play Strats and S-type guitars the most. They're just home to me.
2012 Suhr Guthrie Govan Bengal Burst. Best guitar I own (I've got four strats and two les pauls too). Sounds great and plays brilliant. It has a vintage sound, but can be used to get cranked up modern tones too, it's a beast. Fantastic to play it everyday.
Great video, Shawn. Totally makes sense. Speaking of Mexican made Strats, I picked up a Road Worn Series Strat, totally surprised me, I couldn’t believe how perfect it was! Like you talked about at the end of your video, I was playing it for quite a while without plugging it in, and it just felt perfect. The body resonated like it was old, or something. I plugged it in, and I couldn’t believe how amazing and snappy it sounded!
Thanks for sharing. I do have to say though you're lucky to a certain degree that you can so easily find the good in your strats. I am OBSESSIVE about them and go through them like most people go through ballpoint pens trying to find ones that can live up to my favorite one. I decided to go back to Suhr for my main guitar that I can just beat on. Same color as yours FWIW; I really like their Olympic White finish.
Shawn, you make me buy things! After buying the Friedman BE 100 Deluxe I now am waiting on a Friedman Cali! Besides being a phenomenal guitar player , you're one of the best reviewers on the planet.
i think ( but i can be wrong) the pickups on the shawn tubbs black SSS LSL saticoy are 2 "blondes" and one "special" in the bridge ! this is the set Builder Bill Nash mounts on his stratocaster, and after hughe reviews and success, jason decide to sell it as the dirty blonde set . killer set of pickups ! (i have 3 specials in my strat ….)
My love for Strats is well documented. Got my first one in June of 81 and been hooked ever since. Love your collection there, Shawn. I really need to get a Suhr in my arsenal. I have so many friends that swear by them.
Shawn your concepts at 2:00 and especially 12:00 about method of selection are spot on with mine after dozens of acquisitions over the past few years. Pretty settled in now with my magnificent seven, the Strat being a Mario Martin with Ron Ellis pups. Always enjoy your demos. Thx.
I recently traded my Suhr Classic Pro for an LSL Saticoy and couldn’t be happier. I could never get on with the neck profile or narrow/tall frets. I picked up the LSL and it just felt like “home” right out of the gate, and the tone is nice and full whereas the Suhr is definitely on the bright side. No complaints as far as quality goes. You’re right, once you’re in this league it boils down to personal preference, not necessarily one being better than the other.
True ... what you said is perfectly true. Once I grabbed in 10 seconds in a shop a guitar that appealed to me in a bunch of 50 all laying one close to the other. I didn't lift any before that one ....just a quick landscape look to the whole bunch and I took that one, for the pleasure of the shop owner as it was indeed the most expensive guitar in that group, it was a Tom Anderson guitar and I didn't know that chap at that time so it has been indeed a matter of feeling. Great to know that it wasn't only my perception.
I have an Ibanez RG, satin black, all mahogany neck thru, string thru, two tone sharkfin inlays...walked into the store, saw it on the wall...said I'll take it...stock pups and all. Sounds great unplugged.
As a lefty learning to play in the 80s and 90s, often strats were the only thing I could find pre-internet in stores. Then eBay hit and later Reverb, and with more money to burn I've been trying out tons of other guitar styles...Gibson, Gretch, and eventually offsets. Jazzmasters were just quirky enough to feel like "me", because I consider myself quirky (and what's more quirky than a lefty Jazzmaster?) Later when I needed a backup guitar for church I got a Suhr -- HSS, white, exactly like yours. It is such a versatile, solid and consistent tool, and the trem is so sweet! Now more than ever my JM sits in the stand and I speak through essentially a perfected version of the strats of my youth. Back with my first love, and I'm a better player because of it. Thank you John Suhr! P.S. - now if I could just master the solo on "There Is No One Like You" from Strength I'd be done. =)
Yeah, yeah, they need. Guitar under 2000 (please write 2000 with zeros...!) in most of cases are not professional instruments. With professional I mean an instrument you can trust on, with the right materials in the right place and woods. Very few exceptions and not so far from that price.
@@thatmanonapedal I hope you’re joking - there are many, many professional musicians playing production line Fenders. I’m sure your expensive boutique guitars make you a MUCH better player…
Your description of how you try out a guitar is sage advice and I am so glad you mentioned it. I do the exact same thing and it has served me well. I did buy a Les Paul without getting to play it (from Honduras), based on how it looked. Somehow I knew it was going to be a beast and thankfully it was. Your videos are incredibly helpful and so valuable. Thank you.
Thanks for the kind words and the question. I had to think about it for a second but I'm pretty sure I was using a Suhr Hedgehog amp on the clean channel into my Universal OX. I was using the 4x12 "thick" cabinet. The overdrive was probably a Rockett Pedals Majestic. The Delay was in Pro Tools. It was just a standard plugin. I get the same sound now from my Revv Tilt Overdrive into a Revv D20 direct.
No matter if you play with a suhr or fender, or prs and etc ... you can make everything go well, you can make the best of the equipment you do tutorial, follow along always and spread to friends, congratulations! Hugs from Brazil!
Love the video Shawn! Thanks for sharing your perspective on guitars, and it's cool to see the difference in your strats. I look forward to more videos!
I like these kind of videos. It's so much easier to tell how an instrument, amp or any gear in general sounds like if you have a reference, something to compare it to. Without any reference you (I mean me, as listener) really have no way of knowing what a certain piece of gear is supposedly doing in the signal chain.
I started collecting guitars about 10 years ago. I started with more reasonably priced instruments and have always bought used gear. The first premium instrument I bought was a PRS Custom 24, and I felt the difference. The next guitar I bought after that was a Music Man JP6, and I realized I need stainless steel frets in my life. Then I started buying Suhr guitars. One of my favorite guitars is a custom Suhr Modern, plain mahogany body, with a glued on maple neck and Indian rosewood fretboard, SSH+ bridge, S90 neck. I love that guitar. Another favorite is my EVH Wolfgang Custom. It's uncomfortably heavy, but the sounds that come out of it make me feel alive. I also have a Suhr S and T model that both feel great and sound great. The last two guitars I acquired are a custom Kiesel Vader, and a Jackson Juggernaut, and they sound and feel great. Through spending a lot of time with different guitars I've found the things that I gravitate to in a guitar, and different guitars play differently and make me play differently. A lot of people say the same thing, that the gear we play inspires us in different ways, and it's true. I don't plan on selling any of these fantastic instruments because I love them all for different reasons and I use each of them differently. I find too that certain amplifiers and guitars pair together in a way that makes them sound better than if they were plugged into anything else. There have been times I was disappointed with a particular piece of equipment until it was paired with something that made some magic happen. And it's the times that I'm playing through one of those magical signal chains that I feel happy to be alive and lucky enough to experience that kind of joy.
Guitar off the wall that impressed me and resulted in buying: Fender Baja Tele (MIM). Used 2008 SG Classic. Kotzen Tele (MIJ). On the wall guitars I wanted to love but didn't: PRS McCarty (Guitar Center shit setup?), Ibanez AZ Prestige, 2019 LP 50s Standard.
Had 2 suhr classic antiques, 1 classic pro and it was a great guitars but as soon as I played lsl, I sold all my Suhrs and I got two of lsl, best strat I’ve ever played.
I totally agree with you about playing a guitar without an amp first. I had been looking for a Tele for a long time. At that point (1992) I had never owned a Tele but I knew it was a guitar i needed. I went to a music store in Sarasota FL only to find it packed with customers. I didn't know that Warren Haines and Allen Woody (Allman Bros. Band) were there for a Gibson promo gig. Everyone in the store went into a large room and I had the store to myself. I played 11 Teles and none of them did it for me. Finally the salesman reluctantly handed me a G&L ASAT Special. The second I played it I knew it was different, but in a great way. I could feel the string vibration traveling from the swamp ash body. It was a three bolt neck. Before then, I was anti-three bolt necks. After playing it for half an hour I finally plugged it in. I connected immediately with it. The G&L was like none of my other guitars. You know it when you know it, right? This guitar filled a void. Thanks for your videos. Solid playing and explanations, along with light heartedness and wisdom from a guy with a great pair of ears. What more would you want, huh? Keep up the good work. (Pardon my rant)
Thanx for this simple vid on your strats and your way of connecting with them as well as the pick up mods. Great info. I recognize myself in some way. I’ll have to try the lollars !
Hey Shawn just subscribed. Love your tone and playing. I've been playing a 78 Vintage Strat (since forever) & just purchased a 2014 Suhr Standard with Lollar Dirty Blonde's . . . OMG - I am in tone-heaven = Gilmour, SRV, Nile Rodgers & Mark Knopfler. The Suhr made me instantly put my Strat up For Sale. Love your White Suhr and the Lollars are Amazing. One Love from NYC.
Awhile back i picked up an eric johnson strat (turquoise w/rosewood neck)...im not a strat player cuz my strumming hand hits all those knobs and stuff...but OMG...that "soft-v" neck was the best thing i ever put my hands on...(ok 2nd best)...i didnt have $2000 to get it...but i will never, ever, forget how that guitar melted into my soul...hope ya know what i mean!!!!
Cool video Shawn! I can sooooo relate to your description of trying guitars in stores. I have a very quick, almost instant gut reaction to the feel and connection, and I too typically replace the pickups, so I rarely plug in. I may keep the pickups, but it’s not a priority when first testing a guitar. Ideally, I'll find a quite soundproofed room in the store, so I can clearly hear the guitar acoustically. For me, the biggest connection was to Jaguar guitars in general…the scale length and feel connected immediately. I own three modded Jaguars now (new pickups, bridges, keys), and they all play great: A Squire Jaguar (Indonesia); A Cobain signature (Mexico); and an American Professional Jaguar :)
Very good presentation Shawn. The Filter Tron was sweet, hadn't seen that before. And I should mention that some time ago listening to your Collings I liked the Lollars and replaced both pickups in my 335 and I'm Really happy with them. Thanks much
I like single coil guitars, single coil with bridge humbucker guitars, TV Jones pickups/teletron guitars, humbucker guitars, P90 pickup guitars, mini humbucker guitars, solid body guitars, semi hollow body guitars, hollow body guitars, even steel body guitars (National, Trussart, etc. guitars) I am not bias, I like all of them. LOL
Thank you for sharing about how you react to guitars when you first take them off the wall. I can't tell you how many guitars I have been attracted to, taken off the wall, and within a few seconds I KNOW that I don't like them!!! I don't even have to fret them or strum the strings. We're just NOT compatible. It might be a great guitar for someone else. I don't know, but to me I'll just never be able to connect with it and play it well. Then it's to the acoustic properties of the guitar. If it doesn't ring/resonate, then I'll look to see if there's something wrong with the setup. Next it's how the neck, fingerboard and frets feel. Is it a quality fret job? Is it setup reasonably close. It's hard to judge if it's a bad setup. If I'm really interested, but the setup isn't to my taste, I may ask for a tweak if I think it might make a big difference to me. The last thing is probably the pickup tone. Like you said, you can change those to your liking. Thanks again!!
Thanks for sharing Shawn, always interesting to see how we as players are different. In over 20 years I've never had one that I picked off the wall and knew it was the one. For me, the only thing I care about is the feel of the neck in my hand. That's what creates my bond. That said there are two guitars that I own that when I felt the neck I had to have. One was back in 1998 when I picked up one of the first year Peavey Wolfgang's. The other was 4 or 5 years ago when I picked up a Jeff Beck Stratocaster. Not the custom shop one, just the standard one. I was at Sweetwater planning on buying a new amp and just grabbed the closest Strat to play through it and I ended up taking home the guitar instead. That Jeff Beck Stratocaster is the easiest playing guitar I have ever picked up in my life and the older I get the more important that becomes ;-)
The MIM Fender stuff is good, it's gotten more consistent as well. My favorite is my Mario Martin strat, neck has a V profile which is actually very comfortable. As a bonus it used to be owned by Vince Gill. Even if that wasn't the case, it's gorgeous.
I just happened to run across that guitar on Gruhn's website. I was definitely looking for an MM. Mario and his team do excellent work, it's worth checking them out. I'm a Lollar fan as well, but mine has Fralin's (vintage hot), which are very nice.
Agree that feel is really important. I’ve let go of some really cool guitars because I couldn’t get down with how it felt to play them. Some I wish I hadn’t let go of, but hey, it’s always fun getting something new! Don’t have the cash or space to have too many guitars for super specific roles. Thanks for the video. Was checking it out to see another “review” of a Strat with Humbucker in the Bridge. What Humbucker Bridge goes well with Vintage style Strat Neck/Middle? I play Blues, Jazz, classic Rock.
I really like the Suhr SSV in the bridge as well as the Lollar Imperial Low Wind. WRC does some great stuff along with Throbak and Duncan. The key is to get a slightly lower output humbucker.
After 54 years of playing, my outlook is a lot like yours. It’s not what it is, it’s if you connect with it. For years I could not leave my guitars alone, always changing them, pickups, painting etc. Now days, I almost always accept a guitar for what it uniquely brings to the table as is, why make all of your guitar the same right. Now if I connect to a specific guitar, and the pickups are just plain bad, like maybe a Squier Strat that plays nicely, I do install a wired pickguard with other pickups, but can always put it back at it was later. Funny now, I have a lot of guitars, a lot ha, and guitars I bought many years ago that I could just not get a long with with the style I was playing at the time, I put away, and again, a lot of them. Now in retirement I am going through them, getting ready to start unfortunately, selling them. So I will pickup up say my 73 thin line tele that just did not work for me back in the hard rock days when I was playing out, but now I look at it for what it is, and brings to the table and now, I do connect with it, and don’t want to let it go, ha ha. So you get what I’m saying, before you go and do something you regret later on, (like painting my original 76 LE explorer), maybe take a look at what the instrument does bring to the table, and use it in that content. It’s nice to have the unique sound variations of each guitar, again, why follow one mold in your guitar collection. If you want one sound, find a guitar you connect with, and play it, why spend hard earned money just for a clone of what you have already. Variety is the spice of life and of guitars in my book, Thanks Shawn Rick
I love your videos and reviews, just discoered them... I mean, there´s a lot of folks out there making reviews and talking. But they´re not musicians, they´re not guitar playes. And you are (and a very good one). Great job.
So I have only just heard of you and subbed by the way. And it struck me how much I hear Scott Henderson in your playing. Very nice. And i love your backdrop of Suhr amps.
Question. I bought a new Kiesel Bolt C "Strat" that arrived today. HSS. Great instrument BTW...My question is why don't they angle the back humbucker to create the 'strat' bridge pup tone when i tap back pickup? Seems like no one does it. They make the bridge pup line straight up just like the front 2 pups. That Angle is what makes a strat or tele really poke on the bass end. Really like the tone and string bounce in the black and white one btw...good vid.
Shawn, I'm curious if you have stainless steel frets on the Suhr and what size are they? Medium, Jumbo, Medium Jumbo, etc. I have a Suhr like yours with stainless steel frets but all my other guitars have nickel frets and I'm wondering if you prefer stainless steel or nickel? Thanks!
i have a made in indonesia G&L legacy, i had musicraft build me a neck because i wanted to spec out , its a great guitar . also a 2006 highway one strat that i totally modded. i replaced the trem plate and block with machined brass, replaced the saddles with tusq, and always change the pickups and pickguards along with the pots and switches. and of coarse locking tuners are a must i like sperzel. i hope to get a g&l usa s 500 , id like a single coil guitar, with this one I WILL NOT mod at all
Hmm.. really like the way the single coils on that classic-S sound "cleanish-lovely-harmonic" and then the hummer goes "dirty-grit", oh, but then the filtertrons in that gold beauty sound... and now we have the Friedman with a maple fb and a floyd.... Oh hell, I feel like I've been dirty teased!
Be interested in hearing your opinion on the SSV vs the Thornbucker bridge humbuckers. Agree on testing acoustically.. Are you running through the Dirty Shirley?
The SSV is slightly brighter and less compressed than the Thornbucker. The Thornbucker is warmer and has slightly less output than the SSV. I'm running thru a Suhr Hedgehog amp for this demo.
That was the Suhr Hedgehog dialed clean. I used my Rocket Pedals Majestic for the OD crunch thing and the delay and reverb you're hearing are plugins. I used my UA OX with the 4x12 Punch Cab IR.
HSS is your all purpose strat. I play live three/four sets with just my made my Patrick Eggle MXG custom strat (swampash, exotic top, ebony board) with Bare Knuckle Crawler humbucker and Irish Tours single coils. It's a bit like the Suhr, a bit more modern sounding strat with enough vintage pedigree. Plays like butter. Next will be a Suhr Classic HSS.
I love the lollars, and I’m intrigued by the Friedman , but Floyd Rose scares me, My favorite guitar is a 1982 Gibson 30th gold top I bought off the wall in 82😬, but I’ve been into building my own strats and Tele’s last couple of years be causeI can’t afford most is these guitars , I’m using Warmoth , MJT , Musikraft etc for bodies and necks and buying hardware / pickups on Reverb or eBay ,You can build a great looking relic or non relic for under a grand with high end parts, plus its fun to put your own ideas into the build, anyway great video thanks Shawn 👍
Shawn Tubbs thanks SO MUCH for THE REPLY. I love P90’s. I have RC Rob Conley P90s in a really good Thinline. Its in my instatam guitarmark4x. Theres a Soundgarden cover and a yardbirds cover. Maybe country tune.
Do you like the lollar 64? Also called the blackface? I bought an LSL with HSS. I can only afford to have one strat so I’m thinking about dropping an “el Rayo on the bridge with lollar blackface”
Shawn Tubbs "Demolition" album. A collection of short but sweet guitar jams. shawntubbs.bandcamp.com/releases
you know you're deep in the game when you have five stratocasters and none of them are made by fender.
He said Player Fender are good . That's what i 've done . Put Suhr pickups on my Stratocaster . Make it killer tone machine .
🤣I'm on my way there myself. I have a PRS NF3, two PRS Silver Sky's, a Suhr Classic S Antique, and I'm looking at LSL and Danocaster now. I'm doing the same with Telecasters, except I actually do have one Custom Shop Fender Tele, but next will probably be a Suhr, or PRS NF53...🤔
Good thing I'm single...😅
Really enjoyed this. I think all my favorite channels touch on "why this gear works for me?" Not looking for someone else's answers for myself, more just interested in how the process is different for each of us.
Loved this. Very casual, dare I say, almost "vloggy", conversational. You do this well. Keep 'em coming.
Love your videos. Your playing and sense of humor are first class but what really gets me is how your guitars are always so well intonated and in tune. I often have to stop watching some guys because they just keep banging away when they are out of tune.
I come from a metal background and I've played a lot of guitars in my life, but a lot of them were built to shred. Last weekend I finally played a Custom Shop Journeyman Strat at my local shop, I knew as soon as they handed it to me that I was in trouble. It's a super unique spec that they special ordered and it turned me into a different guitar player.
It's not my favorite color, it's not a brand I usually chase, it's WAY more than I ever would spend on a strat, yet here I am pinching pennies trying to make it happen because you only bond with a guitar like that a few times in a life...
The only fender I still have and enjoy playing is my fender journeyman strat. You won’t regret it :)
Ended up touring with a Suhr Strat and Duesenberg Starplayer this year. Both great guitars and I %100 agree with Shawn on how the different guitars draw out different sounds of you as a player. That Duesenberg is so solid the whole way through I tend to play calmer and more planted cause the guitar carries so much. The Suhr is so much lighter I start to throw it around, but due to it's great construction I find it doesn't act up when I'm getting into it like some of my vintage stuff.
Zach & Maggie I had the Doozy starplayer. Well made but did not fit my hand it hurt my thumb consistently. It was not for me in sound, feel and for me overly big. Felt plasticky. Didn’t care for the hbs either. Just my opinion.
@@joerobinson6199 Yeah I found guys either love them or hate them. I will say I wasn't a fan until I tried the no f-hole starplayer with the split single coil on the neck.
Fender Eric Johnson Strat just melted into my hands and body... When playing while standing this guitar felt like part of my body... Just awesome for me...
Those are really good guitars!
I'm *really* wanting to try one, esp the nicotine yellow, and compare to my Kotzen Strat.
They all sound great... that LSL with the Dirty Blonde Lollar set sounds especially fantastic.
I can appreciate your comment about initially wanting all your guitars to feel the same. I have a Clapton edition Strat with Lace Sensors in it. I played it so much it became a part of me. A few years after playing the strat, my wife bought me a Tele because I always wanted one. I wanted to learn how to chicken pick and get that country sound but yet have a versatile thicker rock style too. The Tele however has a maple finger board vs. the Strat which is rosewood. It has taken me 20 plus years of picking up the Tele and putting it down, trying it with different amps and so on to really appreciate how its made. It now serves it's own purpose and I love it but, It took so long to because I didn't force myself to play it out live, leave the strat at home and work things out. Now I'm a 2 guitar guy. lol. Thinking about a hollow body Tele with a trem now ;-)...
Well hot dawg! Loved it and 100% agree with you on everything man.
Oooohhhhh when I heard the LSL's. Nice.
same with me.
Thank you for sharing, I also share your love for Lollar pickups. I love the blend set up for the electronics.
Yep, Suhr makes some sweet guitars. Love the feel and the tone. Suhr is one of the few that has a certain feel when the tone comes out. Extremely responsive and articulate. That's a great looking Friedman. Lots of Relic'd models out three. That's the first straight up model I've seen played and working. Thanks.
I completely agree. I bought a Classic Antique S a few months ago and love it. I've been a Gibson guy for about 20 some years but figured that I would give a strat a try.
Like many, my first guitar was a really crummy Strat copy it didn't work well, didn't stay in tune, and was generally pain in the ass to play until I got a Charvel. I ended up getting a Gibson SG through chance and it became my number one guitar for at least 15 years. I began to buy Les Paul's as well. I'm sure that this program to me into becoming comfortable with playing shorter scale neck guitars with humbuckers.
Recently, I've become obsessed with learning SRV and some fusion licks. I happened to walk into a great local Boutique guitar shop I just wanted to play offender. I had heard of Suhr and saw a pretty Sonic blue one hanging. Just like what Shawn is saying, as soon as it came off the rack it spoke to me. I didn't buy it immediately, matter of fact, I came back 3 months later and bought it as a birthday gift to myself. I couldn't be happier.
I found that it is a bit temperamental in terms of slight neck movement with temperature drops and has required a little bit of truss rod manipulation. Otherwise, it's been fantastic and the only guitar that I've ever owned where I didn't think I needed to swap out pickups. It has v63 pickups which are extremely Dynamic and touch sensitive. Love them.
Despite all this, Gibson is still home base. I'm taking Jazz lessons and due to my an experience in this field, I'm looking at cheap Epiphone archtop to minimize my investment in case I don't go down the rabbit hole too far.
Definitely loving the suhr tone the most. 👌🏽
0:33 "What's with the Strats" what a face !! :)))
Without letting the guitars "dictate" too much ;-) I do agree they can be differently inspiring. The more I age, the more I tend to go towards chunkier necks. I've tried many: 1 inch super fat and extra-thin are not my thing. I had a wonderful Suhr Tele with P90's but I coudn't play its neck. Hand cramped after 15 minutes. Med .83 to 94 or LP .86 to 97 are my favorites. Also, I dig PRS's DGT: with its monster frets, it plays the most easy of them all. Plus it's very versatile in terms of tones with its 2 splittable HB's. I'm not particularly a Strat guy these days (I was in the 70's), but I kept one that I really like: a Schecter from the good years (1985) with MonsterTones and a passive parametric EQ in place of the 2nd tone pot. Very similar to what Reverend calls now the "bass contour", it allows you to practically dial all the sounds from a harsh, in-the-face tone, up to a Tele on steroids on top of the 5 usual Strat tones. Plus it's light and the neck is one of the best I've played.
My shortlist is: LP 59 (not an original, JB put his hands on them all ;-)), a PRS DGT, a Collings I35 and a Tele (Thinline with SDuncan SH2 HB's). Love your vids: keep'em coming !
For me, the one guitar I knew immediately was my 62 reissue strat I bought new in February of 1983. Knowing the sales guy at the old Guitar Center in San Jose helped, as I mentioned to him that I'm under pressure to get a strat for playing R&B / Funk rather than my Les Paul, and he said "boy, do I have a guitar for you". And he wasn't kidding. Still have it, still play it, and it sounds great. Keep up the good work!
So true! Find the connection. 2 of my favourite guitars right now are a Suhr Strat and a MIJ Tele.
I have two MIM Fender Roadhouse Deluxe Strats. Changed out the pick-guards, kept the pickups (Texas Specials).
A friend of mine has a couple of those. They're good guitars!
Your playing and tone are just fabulous Shawn! I got my hands on one of those Suhr’s at NAMM lastJanuary. Best feeling neck Ive ever played on!
Quite a few years back I picked up a used left handed MIN Strat that the music store couldn't get rid of. The price kept dropping and it sat there forever, so i bought it. Totally uncomfortable to play, for me, but the neck was nice. A few years later i bought a used, dinged up MIM Jimmy Vaughan Strat body. Off came the left handed neck and it went onto that body. A new Tusq nut was put onto the neck, Fender locking tuners were added and a Callaham bridge was put on the body. The first pickups I put in it was the Tex-Mex pickups, I purchased a Hendrix pickguard with the neck pickup slot leaning the opposite direction. I have the same pickguard on two other Strats.
Times changed and I realized that all my Strats (5) are SSS configured. So the pickups are starting to get slowly changed out. A new HSS pickguard was added and in went a Seymour Duncan Psyclone Vintage Filtertron pickup. I'm currently waiting on a Mojo Teisco copy gold foil in a single coil housing to arrive from England and a Duesenberg single coil to arrive from California that will go into the middle position. Chrome City but it should come out looking and sounding pretty unique. The interesting thing about the neck and body is that they are both from the same year (1996). The neck is slowly aging and has dark spots in the wood here and there. It looks like the guitar was put together in '96. The body is just as banged up and looks relic'd. Stays in tune really well too. I have it floating with a minor 3rd pull-up. I have roughly twenty guitars in my collection but play Strats and S-type guitars the most. They're just home to me.
2012 Suhr Guthrie Govan Bengal Burst. Best guitar I own (I've got four strats and two les pauls too). Sounds great and plays brilliant. It has a vintage sound, but can be used to get cranked up modern tones too, it's a beast. Fantastic to play it everyday.
I have the same model Suhr. I love the thing.
Same here
Great video, Shawn. Totally makes sense. Speaking of Mexican made Strats, I picked up a Road Worn Series Strat, totally surprised me, I couldn’t believe how perfect it was! Like you talked about at the end of your video, I was playing it for quite a while without plugging it in, and it just felt perfect. The body resonated like it was old, or something. I plugged it in, and I couldn’t believe how amazing and snappy it sounded!
Thanks for sharing. I do have to say though you're lucky to a certain degree that you can so easily find the good in your strats. I am OBSESSIVE about them and go through them like most people go through ballpoint pens trying to find ones that can live up to my favorite one.
I decided to go back to Suhr for my main guitar that I can just beat on. Same color as yours FWIW; I really like their Olympic White finish.
Shawn, you make me buy things! After buying the Friedman BE 100 Deluxe I now am waiting on a Friedman Cali! Besides being a phenomenal guitar player , you're one of the best reviewers on the planet.
i think ( but i can be wrong) the pickups on the shawn tubbs black SSS LSL saticoy are 2 "blondes" and one "special" in the bridge ! this is the set Builder Bill Nash mounts on his stratocaster, and after hughe reviews and success, jason decide to sell it as the dirty blonde set . killer set of pickups ! (i have 3 specials in my strat ….)
My love for Strats is well documented. Got my first one in June of 81 and been hooked ever since. Love your collection there, Shawn. I really need to get a Suhr in my arsenal. I have so many friends that swear by them.
Shawn your concepts at 2:00 and especially 12:00 about method of selection are spot on with mine after dozens of acquisitions over the past few years. Pretty settled in now with my magnificent seven, the Strat being a Mario Martin with Ron Ellis pups. Always enjoy your demos. Thx.
I recently traded my Suhr Classic Pro for an LSL Saticoy and couldn’t be happier. I could never get on with the neck profile or narrow/tall frets. I picked up the LSL and it just felt like “home” right out of the gate, and the tone is nice and full whereas the Suhr is definitely on the bright side. No complaints as far as quality goes. You’re right, once you’re in this league it boils down to personal preference, not necessarily one being better than the other.
True ... what you said is perfectly true. Once I grabbed in 10 seconds in a shop a guitar that appealed to me in a bunch of 50 all laying one close to the other. I didn't lift any before that one ....just a quick landscape look to the whole bunch and I took that one, for the pleasure of the shop owner as it was indeed the most expensive guitar in that group, it was a Tom Anderson guitar and I didn't know that chap at that time so it has been indeed a matter of feeling. Great to know that it wasn't only my perception.
I love the LsL with the Filtertron. To me it's just that bit more unique than the typical SSH set-up and it always speaks really well on your demos.
I have an Ibanez RG, satin black, all mahogany neck thru, string thru, two tone sharkfin inlays...walked into the store, saw it on the wall...said I'll take it...stock pups and all. Sounds great unplugged.
As a lefty learning to play in the 80s and 90s, often strats were the only thing I could find pre-internet in stores. Then eBay hit and later Reverb, and with more money to burn I've been trying out tons of other guitar styles...Gibson, Gretch, and eventually offsets. Jazzmasters were just quirky enough to feel like "me", because I consider myself quirky (and what's more quirky than a lefty Jazzmaster?) Later when I needed a backup guitar for church I got a Suhr -- HSS, white, exactly like yours. It is such a versatile, solid and consistent tool, and the trem is so sweet! Now more than ever my JM sits in the stand and I speak through essentially a perfected version of the strats of my youth. Back with my first love, and I'm a better player because of it. Thank you John Suhr! P.S. - now if I could just master the solo on "There Is No One Like You" from Strength I'd be done. =)
JJ I have a Suhr like yours and I'm curious if you have stainless steel frets or nickel and what size? medium, jumbo or medium jumbo? Thanks
P.S Shawn, what’s with all the Tele’s???!!
Joking. ;)
Fantastic video, so down to earth and helpful. Thanks.
My opinion: find the one that feels good, then change the electronics if necessary. Most players don't need $2-$4k guitars.
Yeah, yeah, they need. Guitar under 2000 (please write 2000 with zeros...!) in most of cases are not professional instruments. With professional I mean an instrument you can trust on, with the right materials in the right place and woods. Very few exceptions and not so far from that price.
@@thatmanonapedal I hope you’re joking - there are many, many professional musicians playing production line Fenders. I’m sure your expensive boutique guitars make you a MUCH better player…
Your description of how you try out a guitar is sage advice and I am so glad you mentioned it. I do the exact same thing and it has served me well. I did buy a Les Paul without getting to play it (from Honduras), based on how it looked. Somehow I knew it was going to be a beast and thankfully it was. Your videos are incredibly helpful and so valuable. Thank you.
Props for the Mexi Strat!
Shawn, you’re the greatest! Always helping us, always sharing your knowledge. Thank you
What was your amp and pedals used to get this sound ? The best sustain,delay, and tone, ever !!!
Thanks for the kind words and the question. I had to think about it for a second but I'm pretty sure I was using a Suhr Hedgehog amp on the clean channel into my Universal OX. I was using the 4x12 "thick" cabinet. The overdrive was probably a Rockett Pedals Majestic. The Delay was in Pro Tools. It was just a standard plugin. I get the same sound now from my Revv Tilt Overdrive into a Revv D20 direct.
No matter if you play with a suhr or fender, or prs and etc ... you can make everything go well, you can make the best of the equipment you do tutorial, follow along always and spread to friends, congratulations! Hugs from Brazil!
Love the video Shawn! Thanks for sharing your perspective on guitars, and it's cool to see the difference in your strats. I look forward to more videos!
I like these kind of videos. It's so much easier to tell how an instrument, amp or any gear in general sounds like if you have a reference, something to compare it to. Without any reference you (I mean me, as listener) really have no way of knowing what a certain piece of gear is supposedly doing in the signal chain.
Loved the video Shawn! I think we all love to see your personal approach to gear and music in general :)
I started collecting guitars about 10 years ago. I started with more reasonably priced instruments and have always bought used gear. The first premium instrument I bought was a PRS Custom 24, and I felt the difference. The next guitar I bought after that was a Music Man JP6, and I realized I need stainless steel frets in my life. Then I started buying Suhr guitars. One of my favorite guitars is a custom Suhr Modern, plain mahogany body, with a glued on maple neck and Indian rosewood fretboard, SSH+ bridge, S90 neck. I love that guitar. Another favorite is my EVH Wolfgang Custom. It's uncomfortably heavy, but the sounds that come out of it make me feel alive. I also have a Suhr S and T model that both feel great and sound great. The last two guitars I acquired are a custom Kiesel Vader, and a Jackson Juggernaut, and they sound and feel great.
Through spending a lot of time with different guitars I've found the things that I gravitate to in a guitar, and different guitars play differently and make me play differently. A lot of people say the same thing, that the gear we play inspires us in different ways, and it's true. I don't plan on selling any of these fantastic instruments because I love them all for different reasons and I use each of them differently.
I find too that certain amplifiers and guitars pair together in a way that makes them sound better than if they were plugged into anything else. There have been times I was disappointed with a particular piece of equipment until it was paired with something that made some magic happen.
And it's the times that I'm playing through one of those magical signal chains that I feel happy to be alive and lucky enough to experience that kind of joy.
That's awesome! Thanks so much for commenting!
Guitar off the wall that impressed me and resulted in buying: Fender Baja Tele (MIM). Used 2008 SG Classic. Kotzen Tele (MIJ).
On the wall guitars I wanted to love but didn't: PRS McCarty (Guitar Center shit setup?), Ibanez AZ Prestige, 2019 LP 50s Standard.
I like the feel and sound of the G&L Legacy (Fullerton) HSS with the G&L MFD pickups in the single coil positions. You should check one out.
Nice video. You are right about guitars that you connect with. You feel it when you get one you connect with.
Had 2 suhr classic antiques, 1 classic pro and it was a great guitars but as soon as I played lsl, I sold all my Suhrs and I got two of lsl, best strat I’ve ever played.
Glad you found guitars that are a fit!
Jacob Park i tried LSL and Suhr S type guitars in the shop. Preferred the Suhr, personally. LSL had nicer relics though.
I totally agree with you about playing a guitar without an amp first. I had been looking for a Tele for a long time. At that point (1992) I had never owned a Tele but I knew it was a guitar i needed. I went to a music store in Sarasota FL only to find it packed with customers. I didn't know that Warren Haines and Allen Woody (Allman Bros. Band) were there for a Gibson promo gig. Everyone in the store went into a large room and I had the store to myself. I played 11 Teles and none of them did it for me. Finally the salesman reluctantly handed me a G&L ASAT Special. The second I played it I knew it was different, but in a great way. I could feel the string vibration traveling from the swamp ash body. It was a three bolt neck. Before then, I was anti-three bolt necks. After playing it for half an hour I finally plugged it in. I connected immediately with it. The G&L was like none of my other guitars. You know it when you know it, right? This guitar filled a void. Thanks for your videos. Solid playing and explanations, along with light heartedness and wisdom from a guy with a great pair of ears. What more would you want, huh? Keep up the good work. (Pardon my rant)
Great video Shawn. You have lots of tasty instruments which sound great in your hands, cheers
Thanks so much, Nick!
Thanx for this simple vid on your strats and your way of connecting with them as well as the pick up mods. Great info. I recognize myself in some way. I’ll have to try the lollars !
Beautiful guitars! Wow.
Hey Shawn just subscribed. Love your tone and playing. I've been playing a 78 Vintage Strat (since forever) & just purchased a 2014 Suhr Standard with Lollar Dirty Blonde's . . . OMG - I am in tone-heaven = Gilmour, SRV, Nile Rodgers & Mark Knopfler. The Suhr made me instantly put my Strat up For Sale. Love your White Suhr and the Lollars are Amazing. One Love from NYC.
Thanks so much for subscribing Michael! You can't go wrong with Suhr Guitars or Lollar Pickups!!
Got an LsL. Love it!!
Shawn just makes me feel good inside!
"what's with all the strats"? they ask, well, it's the best damn guitar ever made
Awhile back i picked up an eric johnson strat (turquoise w/rosewood neck)...im not a strat player cuz my strumming hand hits all those knobs and stuff...but OMG...that "soft-v" neck was the best thing i ever put my hands on...(ok 2nd best)...i didnt have $2000 to get it...but i will never, ever, forget how that guitar melted into my soul...hope ya know what i mean!!!!
Cool video Shawn! I can sooooo relate to your description of trying guitars in stores. I have a very quick, almost instant gut reaction to the feel and connection, and I too typically replace the pickups, so I rarely plug in. I may keep the pickups, but it’s not a priority when first testing a guitar. Ideally, I'll find a quite soundproofed room in the store, so I can clearly hear the guitar acoustically. For me, the biggest connection was to Jaguar guitars in general…the scale length and feel connected immediately. I own three modded Jaguars now (new pickups, bridges, keys), and they all play great: A Squire Jaguar (Indonesia); A Cobain signature (Mexico); and an American Professional Jaguar :)
That’s a great video. Lots of great advice.
Very good presentation Shawn. The Filter Tron was sweet, hadn't seen that before. And I should mention that some time ago listening to your Collings I liked the Lollars and replaced both pickups in my 335 and I'm Really happy with them. Thanks much
I LOVE this style of video from you, super interested in how you arrived at the specific gear you’ve got or even techniques and approaches you’ve got
Love your evaluation approach.
I have retired my Stratocaster in favor of 2 G&Ls .
Have a shell pink LSL Saticoy, dig it...super light and lots of mojo. Have a Suhr Pro HSS, love that too.
I like single coil guitars, single coil with bridge humbucker guitars, TV Jones pickups/teletron guitars, humbucker guitars, P90 pickup guitars, mini humbucker guitars, solid body guitars, semi hollow body guitars, hollow body guitars, even steel body guitars (National, Trussart, etc. guitars) I am not bias, I like all of them. LOL
Awesome video as always, Shawn. Always love your playing, tone and feel. :)
Right on. It's about the connection and the means.
Thank you for sharing about how you react to guitars when you first take them off the wall. I can't tell you how many guitars I have been attracted to, taken off the wall, and within a few seconds I KNOW that I don't like them!!! I don't even have to fret them or strum the strings. We're just NOT compatible. It might be a great guitar for someone else. I don't know, but to me I'll just never be able to connect with it and play it well. Then it's to the acoustic properties of the guitar. If it doesn't ring/resonate, then I'll look to see if there's something wrong with the setup. Next it's how the neck, fingerboard and frets feel. Is it a quality fret job? Is it setup reasonably close. It's hard to judge if it's a bad setup. If I'm really interested, but the setup isn't to my taste, I may ask for a tweak if I think it might make a big difference to me. The last thing is probably the pickup tone. Like you said, you can change those to your liking. Thanks again!!
Thanks for sharing Shawn, always interesting to see how we as players are different. In over 20 years I've never had one that I picked off the wall and knew it was the one. For me, the only thing I care about is the feel of the neck in my hand. That's what creates my bond. That said there are two guitars that I own that when I felt the neck I had to have. One was back in 1998 when I picked up one of the first year Peavey Wolfgang's. The other was 4 or 5 years ago when I picked up a Jeff Beck Stratocaster. Not the custom shop one, just the standard one. I was at Sweetwater planning on buying a new amp and just grabbed the closest Strat to play through it and I ended up taking home the guitar instead. That Jeff Beck Stratocaster is the easiest playing guitar I have ever picked up in my life and the older I get the more important that becomes ;-)
Right on Shawn... sounding amazing per usual man. Love a good Strat!
The MIM Fender stuff is good, it's gotten more consistent as well. My favorite is my Mario Martin strat, neck has a V profile which is actually very comfortable. As a bonus it used to be owned by Vince Gill. Even if that wasn't the case, it's gorgeous.
I have yet to play a Mario Martin. I've heard great things about those guitars.
I just happened to run across that guitar on Gruhn's website. I was definitely looking for an MM. Mario and his team do excellent work, it's worth checking them out. I'm a Lollar fan as well, but mine has Fralin's (vintage hot), which are very nice.
@@CraigRMerriman I like the Fralin Blues Wounds. Not sure if he still does those.
Agree that feel is really important. I’ve let go of some really cool guitars because I couldn’t get down with how it felt to play them. Some I wish I hadn’t let go of, but hey, it’s always fun getting something new! Don’t have the cash or space to have too many guitars for super specific roles. Thanks for the video. Was checking it out to see another “review” of a Strat with Humbucker in the Bridge.
What Humbucker Bridge goes well with Vintage style Strat Neck/Middle? I play Blues, Jazz, classic Rock.
I really like the Suhr SSV in the bridge as well as the Lollar Imperial Low Wind. WRC does some great stuff along with Throbak and Duncan. The key is to get a slightly lower output humbucker.
After 54 years of playing, my outlook is a lot like yours. It’s not what it is, it’s if you connect with it. For years I could not leave my guitars alone, always changing them, pickups, painting etc. Now days, I almost always accept a guitar for what it uniquely brings to the table as is, why make all of your guitar the same right. Now if I connect to a specific guitar, and the pickups are just plain bad, like maybe a Squier Strat that plays nicely, I do install a wired pickguard with other pickups, but can always put it back at it was later. Funny now, I have a lot of guitars, a lot ha, and guitars I bought many years ago that I could just not get a long with with the style I was playing at the time, I put away, and again, a lot of them. Now in retirement I am going through them, getting ready to start unfortunately, selling them. So I will pickup up say my 73 thin line tele that just did not work for me back in the hard rock days when I was playing out, but now I look at it for what it is, and brings to the table and now, I do connect with it, and don’t want to let it go, ha ha. So you get what I’m saying, before you go and do something you regret later on, (like painting my original 76 LE explorer), maybe take a look at what the instrument does bring to the table, and use it in that content. It’s nice to have the unique sound variations of each guitar, again, why follow one mold in your guitar collection. If you want one sound, find a guitar you connect with, and play it, why spend hard earned money just for a clone of what you have already. Variety is the spice of life and of guitars in my book, Thanks Shawn
Rick
I love your videos and reviews, just discoered them... I mean, there´s a lot of folks out there making reviews and talking. But they´re not musicians, they´re not guitar playes. And you are (and a very good one). Great job.
That Friedman is gorgeous. It's the first one I've seen that wasn't relic'd.
Friedman guitars can be ordered non-aged.
@@L.Scott_Music Good to know. I'll have to check them out.
So I have only just heard of you and subbed by the way. And it struck me how much I hear Scott Henderson in your playing. Very nice. And i love your backdrop of Suhr amps.
Thanks very much for subscribing! Scott Henderson is definitely an influence on my playing. Cheers!
@@ShawnTubbs Awesome.I love gearheads and good guitarists. I will be keeping my ears and eyes on you my friend. Peace and stay safr
love these comparison videos,Xotic also makes some pretty nice start style guitars
It's been years since I've played a Xotic strat style guitar but I remember being impressed with it.
Question. I bought a new Kiesel Bolt C "Strat" that arrived today. HSS. Great instrument BTW...My question is why don't they angle the back humbucker to create the 'strat' bridge pup tone when i tap back pickup? Seems like no one does it.
They make the bridge pup line straight up just like the front 2 pups. That Angle is what makes a strat or tele really poke on the bass end.
Really like the tone and string bounce in the black and white one btw...good vid.
Thanks for watching! Yeah, I don't see the angled bridge humbuckers very much anymore. Could be aesthetics, could be string to poll alignment issues..
"whats with the strats?! What's with the strats?!" - hahahaha. That was authentic.
Shawn, I'm curious if you have stainless steel frets on the Suhr and what size are they? Medium, Jumbo, Medium Jumbo, etc. I have a Suhr like yours with stainless steel frets but all my other guitars have nickel frets and I'm wondering if you prefer stainless steel or nickel? Thanks!
a friend told me Fender makes a pretty good one.
They have been way surpassed
Great vid, great tones!
pleasure to watch and listen
Have you ever tried Music Man Cutlass?
I have yet to check one out. Looks like a nice guitar.
i have a made in indonesia G&L legacy, i had musicraft build me a neck because i wanted to spec out , its a great guitar . also a 2006 highway one strat that i totally modded. i replaced the trem plate and block with machined brass, replaced the saddles with tusq, and always change the pickups and pickguards along with the pots and switches. and of coarse locking tuners are a must i like sperzel. i hope to get a g&l usa s 500 , id like a single coil guitar, with this one I WILL NOT mod at all
G&L has always built great guitars!
i want the thinnest neck possible. can you tell me which of the strats has the thinnest neck option?
Fantastic vid! Thank you!
Don Grosh is my go to builder. He was the shop foreman at Valley Arts. Michael Tuttle used to work for him. Hoping you get to check one out!
I've owned a couple Grosh guitars. They're excellent!
Hmm.. really like the way the single coils on that classic-S sound "cleanish-lovely-harmonic" and then the hummer goes "dirty-grit", oh, but then the filtertrons in that gold beauty sound... and now we have the Friedman with a maple fb and a floyd.... Oh hell, I feel like I've been dirty teased!
Be interested in hearing your opinion on the SSV vs the Thornbucker bridge humbuckers. Agree on testing acoustically.. Are you running through the Dirty Shirley?
The SSV is slightly brighter and less compressed than the Thornbucker. The Thornbucker is warmer and has slightly less output than the SSV. I'm running thru a Suhr Hedgehog amp for this demo.
@@ShawnTubbs thanks
What do you think of James Tyler guitars, Shawn? And would you ever feature one on your channel one day?
They are absolutely fabulous guitars! I would love to demo one some day.
Love the Filtertron on the Gold!
Great vidéo for strat lovers, thanks Shawn ! What kind of amp/pedals did you used??
That was the Suhr Hedgehog dialed clean. I used my Rocket Pedals Majestic for the OD crunch thing and the delay and reverb you're hearing are plugins. I used my UA OX with the 4x12 Punch Cab IR.
Shawn Tubbs thanks, love your playing by the way !!
HSS is your all purpose strat. I play live three/four sets with just my made my Patrick Eggle MXG custom strat (swampash, exotic top, ebony board) with Bare Knuckle Crawler humbucker and Irish Tours single coils. It's a bit like the Suhr, a bit more modern sounding strat with enough vintage pedigree. Plays like butter. Next will be a Suhr Classic HSS.
I love the lollars, and I’m intrigued by the Friedman , but Floyd Rose scares me, My favorite guitar is a 1982 Gibson 30th gold top I bought off the wall in 82😬, but I’ve been into building my own strats and Tele’s last couple of years be causeI can’t afford most is these guitars , I’m using Warmoth , MJT , Musikraft etc for bodies and necks and buying hardware / pickups on Reverb or eBay ,You can build a great looking relic or non relic for under a grand with high end parts, plus its fun to put your own ideas into the build, anyway great video thanks Shawn 👍
Can you tell me the difference I could expect from Filtertrons and a P90 ???🤔🥺
P90's will have more growl and midrange punch. Filtertrons will be brighter and have more chime.
Shawn Tubbs thanks SO MUCH for THE REPLY. I love P90’s. I have RC Rob Conley P90s in a really good Thinline. Its in my instatam guitarmark4x. Theres a Soundgarden cover and a yardbirds cover. Maybe country tune.
Does the Suhr have a stiffer feel than a Fender Elite etc?
The Fender B and E strings actually feel a bit stiffer.
Nice work. I am a Suhr guy . I will check these other brands. What amp are you playing through? Thanks
Do you like the lollar 64? Also called the blackface? I bought an LSL with HSS. I can only afford to have one strat so I’m thinking about dropping an “el Rayo on the bridge with lollar blackface”
That setup would sound great! You really can't go wrong with Lollar.
Thanks for the video