Which set of Bill's singlecoil-format pickups for my strat?

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odd	Which set of Bill's singlecoil-format pickups for my strat?		Lead	[-]
Posts: 1 Tue, Jun 16, 2009 13:10:30	Tags : None Alder body, maple neck. Play mostly funk and blues/fusion type stuff with it, but the guitar's my go to for anything Fender-like. Currently have a set of very authentic vintage-type singlecoils in it, but the noise/hum here at home is simply too much. I'm very interested in the L45s, or a combination of 200/290/298. I want something with some beef to offset the maple in a nice way - yet with as much deep, steely Fender twang as possible. What do you think? Last Edited By: odd Tue, Jun 16, 2009 17:09:43. Edited 2 times.
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Bigue		#1	[url]	[-]
Posts: 106 Tue, Jun 16, 2009 20:10:17	I haven't tried the L45, so keep that in mind. For vintage Strat, I don't think you can beat the 200s, they're very close. 290 is available in bridge only- great if you want a hotter bridge, but I personally prefer the 200 for more of the vintage sound, a bit twangier. 280s are great too, but they are more even across the frequencies. Would also be a good choice. But again, I think the 200s are the "stratiest" of the bunch.
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Posts: 170 Tue, Jun 16, 2009 20:15:35 Bronze Member	i prefer the 280's i think they have more diversity if you just gotta quack, for for the 200's i think the l45, from what i've read, would be going in the opposite direction
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fuzzy beard		#3	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1865 Tue, Jun 16, 2009 22:16:12 Contrib. Gold Charter Member Wilde Tech	IMHO, the L-45 is Bills best single coil sized model. It's just as versatile as the 280 and mixed position quack is superb. Overdrive sounds are brilliant, too. The set is very well balanced, and there's plenty of great sounds available in all pickup positions. Stock strat bridge pickups used to be thin sounding, but that's not an issue at all with the L-45.
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Posts: 306 Wed, Jun 17, 2009 20:09:25 Bronze Member	I agree with Fuzzy. The L-45 is my recommendation as well.
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Posts: 2 Fri, Jun 26, 2009 06:32:40	My strat is lacking a little clarity in the neck position. I have fender texas special there now. I was thinking of getting the L-45s. I'd really like to keep it in the single coil size, but it would be nick to get halfway decent jazz tone too. Can the L45s achieve this? Any recomendations?
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Posts: 1884 Fri, Jun 26, 2009 18:51:44 Contrib. Gold Charter Member Wilde Tech	Listen to Bills playing at youtube. L-45s are very versatile. You can also add a push/pull pot to add the bridge pickup in series with the neck pickup when you need a slightly thicker sound.
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Posts: 2 Thu, Jul 2, 2009 21:18:22	Thanks everyone. One final question though: can the LS-45 twang on a maple neck? I mean, that fat kind of twang when you bend a third just right to major somewhere around the seventh fret and the neck seems to vibrate just right with the body. If that makes any sense.
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Posts: 554 Fri, Jul 3, 2009 10:43:08 Bronze Member	not to confuse you but maybe the keystone set would be a nice choice, almost everybody claim there silence although they are not noiseless
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Posts: 1890 Fri, Jul 3, 2009 11:09:17 Contrib. Gold Charter Member Wilde Tech	<Thanks everyone. One final question though: can the LS-45 twang on a maple neck? I mean, that fat kind of twang when you bend a third just right to major somewhere around the seventh fret and the neck seems to vibrate just right with the body. If that makes any sense.> The L-45 will not be the limiting factor
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Posts: 3 Fri, Jul 3, 2009 20:12:11	fuzzy beard wrote: The L-45 will not be the limiting factor That's what I want to hear. It's just that I haven't got it from a dual-coil pup yet.
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Posts: 3 Mon, Jul 6, 2009 13:42:15	also, the metal plate around the pu on a tele is a big part of the twang
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