Hey everyone! It's been a long time since I've posted here, and I return in need of help! I've recently decided to embark on the quest to get a great tone from my current guitar, a Fender Highway 1 strat of the old make (it's an '05). I play this guitar through a Mesa/Boogie Subway Blues (with minimal effects.
Now my amp and strat have never gotten along quite as much as I would have liked them to. My G&L ASAT Tele did a much better job with it. The kind of sound I am looking for is not a SRV type sound. The type of sound I am trying to get is first off something in the Bridge position that is actually usable rather than that annoying brittle treble I have right now. In the middle position something that'd work well for an all around rock sound. In the neck something like in the middle position, but maybe more bluesy.
Some of the guitar sounds I really enjoy are The Grateful Dead's Europe '72 (especially Brown-Eyed Women, Tennessee Jed, Jack Straw, and One More Saturday Night), I really like Steely Dan's guitar sounds also, and a Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers type tone would be awesome. So maybe I lied about not wanting to play with a bluesy sound, I just want my guitar to sound like the 70s more than anything. It'd also be great if I could crank the thing up and get a nice "Hair/Glam" rock type sound (Mott the Hoople, Bad Company, Thin Lizzy, etc.).
Any other suggestions of "fixes would be greatly appreciated. I'm fairly happy with my guitar right now, I love everything about it except for how it sounds through my amp. If I were to replace the pickups money is of very little importance, however, if you guys think a new amp or something would be better, I'd try and say keep it around 500 dollars.. I really don't have much money to spend right now as I'm graduating high school soon, and am looking forward to some traveling.
Thanks everyone,
Charlie
Now my amp and strat have never gotten along quite as much as I would have liked them to. My G&L ASAT Tele did a much better job with it. The kind of sound I am looking for is not a SRV type sound. The type of sound I am trying to get is first off something in the Bridge position that is actually usable rather than that annoying brittle treble I have right now. In the middle position something that'd work well for an all around rock sound. In the neck something like in the middle position, but maybe more bluesy.
Some of the guitar sounds I really enjoy are The Grateful Dead's Europe '72 (especially Brown-Eyed Women, Tennessee Jed, Jack Straw, and One More Saturday Night), I really like Steely Dan's guitar sounds also, and a Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers type tone would be awesome. So maybe I lied about not wanting to play with a bluesy sound, I just want my guitar to sound like the 70s more than anything. It'd also be great if I could crank the thing up and get a nice "Hair/Glam" rock type sound (Mott the Hoople, Bad Company, Thin Lizzy, etc.).
Any other suggestions of "fixes would be greatly appreciated. I'm fairly happy with my guitar right now, I love everything about it except for how it sounds through my amp. If I were to replace the pickups money is of very little importance, however, if you guys think a new amp or something would be better, I'd try and say keep it around 500 dollars.. I really don't have much money to spend right now as I'm graduating high school soon, and am looking forward to some traveling.
Thanks everyone,
Charlie