I somehow have the exact same guitar. When I saw the pink strat, I was thinking: hold on, that is my strat. Even the relic is the exact same. Custom shop Journeyman 59 in aged shell pink.
I think both had awesome sounds and although I am also a Tele person, I truly enjoyed both because both gave us the opportunity to hear Strats at their best.
Both sound great but my rule #1 of dialing in good tone on any guitar/amp is to do it without the ambience effects, if it sounds good to me and I don't miss it then tone is good to my ears and after you add reverb/delay it only gets better. Same applies to practicing stuff, if it sounds good without ambience and I don't miss it I'm ready to perform the piece to other people :D
That Fuse starting 11:12 was something powerfull. In the extreme area I'll pick that sound all day, but to a cleaner vibe i'm going with the classic sparkle strat sound. The thing with strats to me is that if I want some other vibe I can change it to get what I want, and I don't need to lose the playability that I love.
Actually I'm a Strat-guy (after a decade with LP-style). It was just Position 2 with the Clean Channel that hit me, when I played first time my actual Main guitar. It was "yup, just what I want". For more Midrange just go with Position 3 to 5, if necessary rolling back the Tone. The other way would be a Drivepedal with EQ (Bass and Treble at least, like the Valetone TubeEngine). Solves that problem too.
Mark Knopfler used 9s on his Strats as far as I know. Richard Thompson also usually uses light strings .Over the years I have heard various conflicting reports concerning the gauge that Jimi Hendrix used from very light strings to heavy strings. Jeff Beck supposedly uses heavy gauge strings.
My favorite Strat Tone (all time) is SRV on Rivera Paradise. I can get similar tones, with my 65 Princeton Reverb amp and my Suhr custom with Lollar Blonde Pickups, Nice job guys. Loved these tones.
Hello I am searching for al long time for that sound at 10:48 min. Please How can I het that sound? I there some way for a power budget then the pedals you have at thomann?
One of the reasons more players don't let the strat sparkle is the tendency to rely on midrange focus to cut through the rest of the band. If you have great bandmates who ware willing to work with you and not make a ton of noise (Dire Straits), you can let it sparkle and shine.
Let’s face it once you can play at a decent level it’s all about the performance at any one moment in time... I got say I prefer Kris... because he has become so comfortable and confident on TH-cam. For me that confidence comes through in a little attitude together with facial expressions which just get me into his playing more. Guillaume is a fine playing but I prefer Kris’s “performance” style. Looking forward to the Tele player shootout next 👍
I’m a shimmery Strat sound guy too ~ it’s the unique magical zingy-stringy voicing and character (including of single coil pick-ups) that makes a Strat the best sounding guitar, despite the dated design, and blocky cumbersome heel-neck joint. The modern high gain, stringy, single coil sound that I never see people re-create is the Yngwie Malmsteen type sound. There is a virtuoso neo-classical player named Cesario Filho (TH-cam channel) that does it very well. Maybe you could cover getting that Yngwie type sound next time. Cheers~
@@LfunkeyA Throughout history, “timeless” has proven difficult to preserve, including when an ethos of innovation persists to change things. The most regressive (and subsequently modified) aspect of Strat design is the outline of the instrument, which was modeled after the outline of a traditional acoustic guitar in order to maintain continuity with familiar appearances, back in 1954. Single coils now require stacked/modified design to achieve quiet operation with high gain. One element of design retains permanent effect however, which is the ability to decouple transmitting excessive bass frequencies through the bolt-neck construction, and this of course is highly responsible for producing the characteristic tonality. Cheers~
I resonate with the statement of Guillaume that the Strat can take your head off with all the sparkly top-end. First thing I did to my Strat was to put in a bride Humbucker (DiMarzio Chopper). Then it can do petty much everything.
Kris, Hello guys. Both of you play fantastic. I have always been a fan of Strats. I own 3. I don't find really any limitations on a strat whatsoever. Depending on your guitar set up. Kris you have excellent finger speed! I also own a Tele. It's phenomenal. A very flexible instrument for any genre. I did also like the glitter sea foam strat Kris. But definitely not your Tele..lol. Love the show as always and am already looking forward to the next one.
I recommend using a fatter, higher output single coil in the bridge of a strat to take the edge off, but also to make sure you can handle a bit of overdrive. I also recommend stacked single coils like the DiMarzio Virtual Solo. I also dig the EMG SA Gilmour set. It's amazing and very versatile.
Hey, check out this video from 1:40. Guillaume explains his strat pretty well. :) Cheers //Kris /Edit: forgot the link, haha! th-cam.com/video/c5ZDTRhskT8/w-d-xo.html
The pink strat is gorgeous and played with more variety so I could dig more the different styles. The sea foam green player seemed to be more of a virtuoso but in many ways all three samples sounded similar....there wasn't any dirt on the 3rd. Winner; pink strat. Impressive, both.😷
With all due respect to Kris, I prefer Guillaume's tone. I had a MIM strat once, I believe it had ceramic pickups, and I loved it's tone!! So warm and creamy!! Wish I still had it, but I was in college and needed to pay the rent.
Dedicated strat player, 10’s, slightly higher action because I play hard, slightly higher gain, HSS, thats from years of playing strats and getting MY ideal setup, I have other guitars but thats the one I want to hear and play pretty much every time, it doesn’t sound like any of my heroes, it sounds like how I like it for me but still sounds like a strat.
It’s true that non strat players tend to love that sparkly stratty tone so when they grab a strat, that’s what they want to hear because they don’t hear that tone with their regular normal guitar. I want my strat to sound like a strat and my LP to sound like a LP. If I had to go anywhere with only one guitar, I’m screwed.
I like the feel of a maple neck guitar more and if I play the Strat with a Clean amp the maple amp more too. But I love gainy Marshalls and that's what I play usually and there I like Rosewood Strats more. Because of that I think Guillaume wins!
This videos are fun as hell to watch and you can tell they are fun to record too. I think its mandatory for you guys to do the opposite now and use teles so Guillaume can clap back at Kris about Strats being better. Cheers!
Thanks a lot! Yeah it was a lot of fun to make, like pretty much every video I get to make with my buddy G. And totally, we HAVE to make that Tele challenge. :) //Kris
Sorry Guillaume, Kris comes out on top here in my opinion! As a die hard strat guy (and SRV fan of course), it’s all about that strat+amp tone for me, and just using the mid boosted sound for lead lines then switching back to amp sound I reckon!
Got to 3:13 and already Kris wins. I’m a strat guy and I am tired of how much honk machine some guys do with their strats. For SRV, it was fine he invented it. But the others, as good as they all are, based their tones of that and lose the character of the strat.
First 2 go to Guillaume last sound goes to Kris. I was a strat guy for a long time mainly because that's all I had but my main do all guitar now is a tele type I built. I still love the strat for doing the fun iconic strat stuff though
Damn I love a exploding Fuzz with a strat or tele and overdrive!! I began watching this and as soon the Fuzz started and my god I had to go play my strat with fuzz!!!
Srv wasnt cranking the midrange he left it on about five or so and he wasnt even using texas specials in his main guitar it was just stock pickups and he also had his pickups set pretty low and the action was pretty high because he was using huge frets so his tone was super sparkly. And for leads he would just kick on a tubescreamer for volume and to kinda fatten his tone
That's true, he was using his stock old strat. But (as far as I know) his pickups have more output and mids than usual, that's what the texas special pickups are trying to emulate. He also cranked his amps WAY UP and that always gives a lot of mids. Since most of use can't afford to do that, we have other ways of pushing the mids: pedals, different eq on the amp, etc. If you listen to his recordings, there's a lot of chime and midrange going on. And that's the beauty of it. :) //Kris
@@ThomannsGuitarsBasses fender opened his guitar up and his pickups read normal output and yeah the way he was running the amp was about 90 percent of his tone. And sorry if i sounded like a smart ass, good job on the vid!
Bravo Guillaume ! Sorry Kris ... but this time Guillaume wins ;) As a strat guy i enjoyed all your tones. That also shown how versatile a strat is ! However I would have loved to have some information about both strats (neck shape, pickups, etc). I have one with a big mapple neck, tomatillo PUs, and another one with a slimer Rosewood neck, FAT 50s PUS, and they sound very different.
Great video both of you sounded great but i preffered Guillauemes sound the best. Yes sometimes you want the sparkle sound but often its to much and the sweetnes goes away. I give this to Guillaume for his intro wow
I am also 80% of the time a strat player but I also almost never use second pickup positions for the sparkle sound... I just hate it for some reason... Either the neck or bridge pickup is in use, I know maybe a tele should fit me better... not really, I have a tele as well but still like the strat better... There is just something about the strat...
Yes I don't care for the 2 and 4 position either... For me it's either neck or bridge most of the time, but I am intrigued by the middle every now and then when I'm dinking around. Has a woody Hendrix sound from his Blues record. In fact, my strat is wired for only 3 positions anyway. But I've had others with the 5 way...
I agree with all points here. If you generally play other guitars, you'll pick up a strat for that sparkly, scooped tone. But if you play a strat for everything, you will find ways to make it sound the way you need it to. Personally, I really dig Kris' tones here, but I agree that it instantly makes you sound like every other strat player in the world. I'll give it to Guillaume for showing off the often overlooked versatility of the guitar (and for great tones, even if they weren't traditionally "stratty")
I can live with that. :) I still want a strat to sound like a strat (haha) but I did adore G's tone in the video. It's so interesting, how you like listening to different guitar tones, than what you want to hear when you play yourself. Weird, isn't it? cheers //Kris
I like both but Guillaume's more :) Even if I tend to play more the sparkly sound myself (isn't that weird?). And a Strat (or any single coil guitar) with loads of mid range and a humbucker guitar are totally different beasts. You'll never play them the same way... ...but maybe it's only because I'm a single coil guy :)
First off, killer playing and tones by both ! Also, as a fellow frenchie, I'm impressed by how much Guillaume's english accent has improved over the years, which isn't easy for us usually... To get back to the original topic, as a Blackmore, YJM, early 80s Gary Moore and Norum fan I'd say there's something about SSS Strats in a rock/hard rock/metal context that is totally unique and set you instantly apart from the classic LP/Marshall combo (however cool that setup sounds). Definitely sounds more pokey and kinda thinner, but equally cool IMHO. Plug those Strats into an overdrive and then into that SV20H that's sitting between you, and tell me that's not the Tone Of The Gods ! Takes more control and a more agressive playing for sure (as Guillaume points out) and actually using the tone controls on the guitar (having a tone control on the bridge pickup helps quite a bit here), but it's an awesome sound. Embrace that thing and make it scream ! And hey, the Strat work for Gilmour, soooo...
I very much like Guillaume's tone. Also, I'm fed up hearing people claim what a "real" Strat tone should be. Probably Jimi didn't listen to these people.
I’m setup for 11’s on the Strat because I prefer the half step tuned down tone. The guy on the left likes excessive spank on his “strat” tone compared to my taste. Some guys are keyed into the Stevie Ray tone, but I think it’s a little excessive on spank, bit that’s what makes everybody different right ! 😉
I suck at playing guitar . Im 40 now and have off and on played strats still don’t know a whole song. But a strat just fits beautifully on a body. Its forms to you and becomes more effortless to play . It was meant to “fit” a human body by design but the skill required to keep the treblely ice pick at just the right level is a constant balancing act that when someone does it right you can instantly tell . “Hey dis sum bitch can play dat dear strat” yep definitely shook the devils hand. Physically they are so easy to play but to have it sound right i feel is very difficult. You start to palm mute , slide finger across notes just after picking them , picking muted string along with fretted strings to give the sound more body and a bunch of stuff that I don’t think alot of players realize they are doing subconsciously to tame those ice picks
You both sound awesome!! Gorgeous strats!😍 But why does the decal on the green strat look so weird? Like it's a fake 🤔 zoom in on the headstock at 2:37
There's quite a few variations over the decades, from small thin gold "spaghetti" logo, to large bold black CBS, now back to slightly thicker spaghetti. It could just be you have guitars from different logo eras.
Hey Ipuya, vintage strats all have this old school waterslide decal on the headstock. For that reason modern Custom Shop Fenders have it too (all the reissues at least). All modern production Fenders have a more sophisticated logo (most Squiers, Mexican and USA Fender guitars and basses). These two guitars in the video are Custom Shop Reissues, that's why the decals look so old school. :) //Kris
I liked Kirs's Sounds more but im on Guillaumes side. The Strat is the best fucking guitar ever made. You totally have to fight it and this is so wonderful.
Sorry Guillaume, but I love the Strat for that "vintage" tone. Maybe is it due to may musical reference points (and my age of 51). I have a Strat with Fat 50's PU, and they sound so great to me, especially the neck PU ! The tone of Guillaume is too "modern" in a way, and the Strat characteric sound tends to vanish...
Truth about the Mid range and Strats. Strat+Vintage Marshall, Tele+Fender Blues Deluxe, LesPaul+80's Marshall. If you can pair the right amp to the guitar, it fills in the "blanks".
I'm thinking of running for office so...... You are both right and wrong. How'd I do? Points taken from my favorite guitar dudes on the TH-cams... I came for the point and stayed for the playing! **post edit** 14:06 Blonde sandwich?
Great sounds, guys. The green one alone sounds awesome, it's problem is the pink one. That one sounds phenomenal!
I would need both types but I think that I would use the tones of the pink guitar more often .
You missed the comparison using a metal zone pushing a Line 6 spider on Insane Channel
Ohh damn! How could we forget about that. 🤦♂️😅
That pink shell finish is insane.
I somehow have the exact same guitar. When I saw the pink strat, I was thinking: hold on, that is my strat. Even the relic is the exact same. Custom shop Journeyman 59 in aged shell pink.
I think both had awesome sounds and although I am also a Tele person, I truly enjoyed both because both gave us the opportunity to hear Strats at their best.
Let's get this party stratted.
The winner is ... the strat. It does both your tones. There are no losers in this shootout.
Guillaume''s "HOW DARE YOU!" was haunting.
What an intro. I've never heard Guillaume like that.
This will be a great video.
I was literally afraid there for a second. haha! //Kris
Both sound great but my rule #1 of dialing in good tone on any guitar/amp is to do it without the ambience effects, if it sounds good to me and I don't miss it then tone is good to my ears and after you add reverb/delay it only gets better. Same applies to practicing stuff, if it sounds good without ambience and I don't miss it I'm ready to perform the piece to other people :D
I would want both ends of strat tones, the sparkly and the mid boosted side!
Absolutely
In my opinion...
Clean: Kris
Crunchy: Even
Dirty: Guillaume
But I love both sounds and thoughts behind these tones. Great and fun video, guys.
Watching this video, my first thought was "Right, that's why I bought a Volante!". Great tones and great players as usual!
That Fuse starting 11:12 was something powerfull. In the extreme area I'll pick that sound all day, but to a cleaner vibe i'm going with the classic sparkle strat sound.
The thing with strats to me is that if I want some other vibe I can change it to get what I want, and I don't need to lose the playability that I love.
I loved Guillaume's fuzz.
Sweeeeet midrange all the way up!
Also, literally can't wait for the Tele one.
Awww you
Actually I'm a Strat-guy (after a decade with LP-style). It was just Position 2 with the Clean Channel that hit me, when I played first time my actual Main guitar. It was "yup, just what I want". For more Midrange just go with Position 3 to 5, if necessary rolling back the Tone. The other way would be a Drivepedal with EQ (Bass and Treble at least, like the Valetone TubeEngine). Solves that problem too.
I like the way this is framed. What is more versatile and sounds better. A strat, or a strat. The answer is clear.
I like the jingle jangle of the Strat and the green one portrayed that sound more to me.
For me Guillaume is definetely the best strat player with CRAZY sound! Love it )))
The banter is on point👌
Mark Knopfler used 9s on his Strats as far as I know. Richard Thompson also usually uses light strings .Over the years I have heard various conflicting reports concerning the gauge that Jimi Hendrix used from very light strings to heavy strings. Jeff Beck supposedly uses heavy gauge strings.
My favorite Strat Tone (all time) is SRV on Rivera Paradise. I can get similar tones, with my 65 Princeton Reverb amp and my Suhr custom with Lollar Blonde Pickups, Nice job guys. Loved these tones.
Hello I am searching for al long time for that sound at 10:48 min. Please How can I het that sound? I there some way for a power budget then the pedals you have at thomann?
Guillaume dropped the mic on the clean tones!!! And thanks guys for the fun video, can't wait for the tele one :-)
I love Both sound so much ! really looking forward the video about Telecaster ! :) great job guys as usual
Kris' clean sound and Guillaume's dirty sound. Best of both worlds.
One of the reasons more players don't let the strat sparkle is the tendency to rely on midrange focus to cut through the rest of the band. If you have great bandmates who ware willing to work with you and not make a ton of noise (Dire Straits), you can let it sparkle and shine.
You Guys are Awesome!! Thanks
Let’s face it once you can play at a decent level it’s all about the performance at any one moment in time... I got say I prefer Kris... because he has become so comfortable and confident on TH-cam. For me that confidence comes through in a little attitude together with facial expressions which just get me into his playing more. Guillaume is a fine playing but I prefer Kris’s “performance” style. Looking forward to the Tele player shootout next 👍
just my 5cents ... you both played great and from my pov there wasn't a "better" or "worse" sound ...#enjoyyoursound
Guillaume had the best lead Strat tone and crunch tone!
I’m a shimmery Strat sound guy too ~ it’s the unique magical zingy-stringy voicing and character (including of single coil pick-ups) that makes a Strat the best sounding guitar, despite the dated design, and blocky cumbersome heel-neck joint. The modern high gain, stringy, single coil sound that I never see people re-create is the Yngwie Malmsteen type sound. There is a virtuoso neo-classical player named Cesario Filho (TH-cam channel) that does it very well. Maybe you could cover getting that Yngwie type sound next time. Cheers~
That would be a good one. Tone-wise he's in my top 5 best and most recognizable tones for any electrics.
dated design? nah, that's one of the timeless aspects of the instrument.
@@LfunkeyA Throughout history, “timeless” has proven difficult to preserve, including when an ethos of innovation persists to change things. The most regressive (and subsequently modified) aspect of Strat design is the outline of the instrument, which was modeled after the outline of a traditional acoustic guitar in order to maintain continuity with familiar appearances, back in 1954. Single coils now require stacked/modified design to achieve quiet operation with high gain. One element of design retains permanent effect however, which is the ability to decouple transmitting excessive bass frequencies through the bolt-neck construction, and this of course is highly responsible for producing the characteristic tonality. Cheers~
Both sounded great, but for my personal I’m with Kris. My main axe is a PRS if I take the Strat I want that typical Strat sound.
Guillaume's high gain tones were absolutely filthy❤
The Hoof with the octave ! Wow 🤩
I resonate with the statement of Guillaume that the Strat can take your head off with all the sparkly top-end. First thing I did to my Strat was to put in a bride Humbucker (DiMarzio Chopper). Then it can do petty much everything.
Excellent video.
You guys rock!
Kris,
Hello guys. Both of you play fantastic. I have always been a fan of Strats. I own 3. I don't find really any limitations on a strat whatsoever. Depending on your guitar set up. Kris you have excellent finger speed! I also own a Tele. It's phenomenal. A very flexible instrument for any genre. I did also like the glitter sea foam strat Kris. But definitely not your Tele..lol. Love the show as always and am already looking forward to the next one.
I recommend using a fatter, higher output single coil in the bridge of a strat to take the edge off, but also to make sure you can handle a bit of overdrive. I also recommend stacked single coils like the DiMarzio Virtual Solo. I also dig the EMG SA Gilmour set. It's amazing and very versatile.
DiMarzio Virtual Solo is exactly what I have in the bridge, combined with True Velvet neck and middle. Sounds creamy as hell!
11:14 that's the most decent stoner-rock tone I heard in a long time. I must reproduce that. Is the Boss also on or it's only the earthquake pedal?
Both sounded great , but my vote goes for the Sparkle green team 😎👍
Greetings!
Thanks for the wonderful sharing!
🤘🏻ROCK ON!!🤘🏻
What is the shell pink strat for a particular Fender model / series ? 🤔 Which PUs? Spec Sheets available?
Hey, check out this video from 1:40. Guillaume explains his strat pretty well. :) Cheers //Kris
/Edit: forgot the link, haha! th-cam.com/video/c5ZDTRhskT8/w-d-xo.html
Excellent video. I love both sounds and want a strat that can do all those sounds!
The pink strat is gorgeous and played with more variety so I could dig more the different styles. The sea foam green player seemed to be more of a virtuoso but in many ways all three samples sounded similar....there wasn't any dirt on the 3rd. Winner; pink strat. Impressive, both.😷
I agree with Guillaume about the strat setup. Just a little of tumnus magic to even the pickups on my HSS without losing the single coil sound.
Missed a trick for round 3 should of been a miku.
Looking forward to seeing a tele and les paul version as this. Great vid
Great video guys. Honestly my favourite part is when you jam together. You should start a band
Matthew scott is probably my favourite strat player!
With all due respect to Kris, I prefer Guillaume's tone. I had a MIM strat once, I believe it had ceramic pickups, and I loved it's tone!! So warm and creamy!! Wish I still had it, but I was in college and needed to pay the rent.
Dedicated strat player, 10’s, slightly higher action because I play hard, slightly higher gain, HSS, thats from years of playing strats and getting MY ideal setup, I have other guitars but thats the one I want to hear and play pretty much every time, it doesn’t sound like any of my heroes, it sounds like how I like it for me but still sounds like a strat.
It’s true that non strat players tend to love that sparkly stratty tone so when they grab a strat, that’s what they want to hear because they don’t hear that tone with their regular normal guitar.
I want my strat to sound like a strat and my LP to sound like a LP. If I had to go anywhere with only one guitar, I’m screwed.
Habt ihr Tipps für die perfekte Strat/Singlecloil/Schaltung? Den Singlecoil am Steg mit an das Tonepoti vom Mittleren? Treblebleed ja oder nein?
Both sound amazing!
What Fender model was Guillaume playing?
Guillaume playing with the octave was off the hook! Wow... crazy but I love it!
13:26 “As soon as it’s not old school blues, funk….” But why would you ever want to do that? 😂
What model is that pink strat?
I like the feel of a maple neck guitar more and if I play the Strat with a Clean amp the maple amp more too. But I love gainy Marshalls and that's what I play usually and there I like Rosewood Strats more. Because of that I think Guillaume wins!
Green one!!!
I liked both. More towards the sparkle side, probably.
Love the fuzz tone and playing Guillaume! Who says strats can't do HEAVY!?
This videos are fun as hell to watch and you can tell they are fun to record too. I think its mandatory for you guys to do the opposite now and use teles so Guillaume can clap back at Kris about Strats being better. Cheers!
Thanks a lot! Yeah it was a lot of fun to make, like pretty much every video I get to make with my buddy G. And totally, we HAVE to make that Tele challenge. :) //Kris
I didn’t like that much both nasty tones.... but Kris won in my opinion.
Cheers guys and keep up like that!
I always enjoy your videos!
Thanks a lot Diego, we appreciate your comments! :) //Kris
What Brand is that black P90 Les Paul Type guitar with Bigsby in the back?
Hey, that's Guillaume's modified Epiphone Les Paul. It's really pretty, isn't it? //Kris
It is all nice, lovely tones and quality playing.
Man Guillaume's fuzz sound reminded me a lot of Reignwolf's sound. I need to look into those pedals I guess
For me...the best strat sound win the best tele sound ... teh best strat sound has something magic that the best tele sound doesn't has...
I lie somewhere in the middle! Great video!
Felicitaciones, gran demostración y muy amena conversación. Gracias por este video. Saludos desde Chile!!!
Sorry Guillaume, Kris comes out on top here in my opinion! As a die hard strat guy (and SRV fan of course), it’s all about that strat+amp tone for me, and just using the mid boosted sound for lead lines then switching back to amp sound I reckon!
Thanks to this video, I finally know how to pronounce Guillaume
I love both!!
Got to 3:13 and already Kris wins. I’m a strat guy and I am tired of how much honk machine some guys do with their strats. For SRV, it was fine he invented it. But the others, as good as they all are, based their tones of that and lose the character of the strat.
Great video
First 2 go to Guillaume last sound goes to Kris. I was a strat guy for a long time mainly because that's all I had but my main do all guitar now is a tele type I built. I still love the strat for doing the fun iconic strat stuff though
Both sounded GREAT 😜
Damn I love a exploding Fuzz with a strat or tele and overdrive!! I began watching this and as soon the Fuzz started and my god I had to go play my strat with fuzz!!!
Srv wasnt cranking the midrange he left it on about five or so and he wasnt even using texas specials in his main guitar it was just stock pickups and he also had his pickups set pretty low and the action was pretty high because he was using huge frets so his tone was super sparkly. And for leads he would just kick on a tubescreamer for volume and to kinda fatten his tone
That's true, he was using his stock old strat. But (as far as I know) his pickups have more output and mids than usual, that's what the texas special pickups are trying to emulate. He also cranked his amps WAY UP and that always gives a lot of mids. Since most of use can't afford to do that, we have other ways of pushing the mids: pedals, different eq on the amp, etc. If you listen to his recordings, there's a lot of chime and midrange going on. And that's the beauty of it. :) //Kris
@@ThomannsGuitarsBasses fender opened his guitar up and his pickups read normal output and yeah the way he was running the amp was about 90 percent of his tone. And sorry if i sounded like a smart ass, good job on the vid!
Bravo Guillaume !
Sorry Kris ... but this time Guillaume wins ;)
As a strat guy i enjoyed all your tones. That also shown how versatile a strat is !
However I would have loved to have some information about both strats (neck shape, pickups, etc). I have one with a big mapple neck, tomatillo PUs, and another one with a slimer Rosewood neck, FAT 50s PUS, and they sound very different.
Great video both of you sounded great but i preffered Guillauemes sound the best. Yes sometimes you want the sparkle sound but often its to much and the sweetnes goes away. I give this to Guillaume for his intro wow
Thank you so much Håkan, appreciate it! //G
I liked em both but favored the green one best
Me too. haha! //Kris
I am also 80% of the time a strat player but I also almost never use second pickup positions for the sparkle sound... I just hate it for some reason... Either the neck or bridge pickup is in use, I know maybe a tele should fit me better... not really, I have a tele as well but still like the strat better... There is just something about the strat...
Yes I don't care for the 2 and 4 position either... For me it's either neck or bridge most of the time, but I am intrigued by the middle every now and then when I'm dinking around. Has a woody Hendrix sound from his Blues record. In fact, my strat is wired for only 3 positions anyway. But I've had others with the 5 way...
I agree with all points here. If you generally play other guitars, you'll pick up a strat for that sparkly, scooped tone. But if you play a strat for everything, you will find ways to make it sound the way you need it to.
Personally, I really dig Kris' tones here, but I agree that it instantly makes you sound like every other strat player in the world. I'll give it to Guillaume for showing off the often overlooked versatility of the guitar (and for great tones, even if they weren't traditionally "stratty")
I can live with that. :) I still want a strat to sound like a strat (haha) but I did adore G's tone in the video. It's so interesting, how you like listening to different guitar tones, than what you want to hear when you play yourself. Weird, isn't it? cheers //Kris
i'm usually not a fan of sparkly guitars, but dammit that green strat is 🔥
It's on fire, right? On green and sparkly fire. :) //Kris
Next, have Guillaume show YOU how to get a proper Tele tone. Shots fired! 😆
Uhhhh I am SO ready for that video. Haha! //Kris
I like both but Guillaume's more :)
Even if I tend to play more the sparkly sound myself (isn't that weird?).
And a Strat (or any single coil guitar) with loads of mid range and a humbucker guitar are totally different beasts. You'll never play them the same way...
...but maybe it's only because I'm a single coil guy :)
Great video, thanks, grettings from Perú!, Gracias!
First off, killer playing and tones by both ! Also, as a fellow frenchie, I'm impressed by how much Guillaume's english accent has improved over the years, which isn't easy for us usually...
To get back to the original topic, as a Blackmore, YJM, early 80s Gary Moore and Norum fan I'd say there's something about SSS Strats in a rock/hard rock/metal context that is totally unique and set you instantly apart from the classic LP/Marshall combo (however cool that setup sounds). Definitely sounds more pokey and kinda thinner, but equally cool IMHO.
Plug those Strats into an overdrive and then into that SV20H that's sitting between you, and tell me that's not the Tone Of The Gods ! Takes more control and a more agressive playing for sure (as Guillaume points out) and actually using the tone controls on the guitar (having a tone control on the bridge pickup helps quite a bit here), but it's an awesome sound. Embrace that thing and make it scream !
And hey, the Strat work for Gilmour, soooo...
I very much like Guillaume's tone. Also, I'm fed up hearing people claim what a "real" Strat tone should be. Probably Jimi didn't listen to these people.
I’m setup for 11’s on the Strat because I prefer the half step tuned down tone. The guy on the left likes excessive spank on his “strat” tone compared to my taste. Some guys are keyed into the Stevie Ray tone, but I think it’s a little excessive on spank, bit that’s what makes everybody different right ! 😉
For me the quintessential strat tone is Robert Cray or Roger Plant solo albums.
I suck at playing guitar . Im 40 now and have off and on played strats still don’t know a whole song. But a strat just fits beautifully on a body. Its forms to you and becomes more effortless to play . It was meant to “fit” a human body by design but the skill required to keep the treblely ice pick at just the right level is a constant balancing act that when someone does it right you can instantly tell . “Hey dis sum bitch can play dat dear strat” yep definitely shook the devils hand. Physically they are so easy to play but to have it sound right i feel is very difficult. You start to palm mute , slide finger across notes just after picking them , picking muted string along with fretted strings to give the sound more body and a bunch of stuff that I don’t think alot of players realize they are doing subconsciously to tame those ice picks
You both sound awesome!! Gorgeous strats!😍 But why does the decal on the green strat look so weird? Like it's a fake 🤔 zoom in on the headstock at 2:37
That is totally normal. Most vintage and modern Strats look like that....
@@guitarlogy5506 my MIM Strat doesn't 🤷🏻♂️
Mine MIM Strat hasn't got that too but many Strats have it.
There's quite a few variations over the decades, from small thin gold "spaghetti" logo, to large bold black CBS, now back to slightly thicker spaghetti. It could just be you have guitars from different logo eras.
Hey Ipuya, vintage strats all have this old school waterslide decal on the headstock. For that reason modern Custom Shop Fenders have it too (all the reissues at least). All modern production Fenders have a more sophisticated logo (most Squiers, Mexican and USA Fender guitars and basses). These two guitars in the video are Custom Shop Reissues, that's why the decals look so old school. :) //Kris
I liked Kirs's Sounds more but im on Guillaumes side. The Strat is the best fucking guitar ever made. You totally have to fight it and this is so wonderful.
Sorry Guillaume, but I love the Strat for that "vintage" tone. Maybe is it due to may musical reference points (and my age of 51). I have a Strat with Fat 50's PU, and they sound so great to me, especially the neck PU ! The tone of Guillaume is too "modern" in a way, and the Strat characteric sound tends to vanish...
Both sounded great, just a demo how versatile a strat is... and no, you don't have to fight it when the setup is right.
Guillaume all the way! His was a perfect amount of mid-range with sustain.
Truth about the Mid range and Strats. Strat+Vintage Marshall, Tele+Fender Blues Deluxe, LesPaul+80's Marshall. If you can pair the right amp to the guitar, it fills in the "blanks".
Keith Scott is probably my favourite
I'm thinking of running for office so...... You are both right and wrong. How'd I do? Points taken from my favorite guitar dudes on the TH-cams... I came for the point and stayed for the playing!
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Blonde sandwich?