Guitar talk, and easy guitar lessons from beginner to jazz with Birdsnake Brown
You can call it a Telestrat if you want, or even a Strelecaster, but either way, it’s the best middle setting on a Stratocaster!
Using the strat neck and bridge together is one of the greatest Stratocaster tones and it isn’t even an option with the standard switching.
You can get a great funk tone, and it also does a great fake Telecaster sound.
More like trouble bleed. When you have a treble bleed circuit in your guitar, the fuzz face doesn’t clean up with the volume knob the way it’s supposed to. This isn’t just a fuzz face thing. A lot of vintage fuzz pedals interact with the volume knob and the trouble bleed will have an effect on the tone.
In this lesson I demonstrate the fuzz face with and without the treble bleed circuit. I like it a lot better without the treble bleed.
I really like that cool strat quack tone on the 2nd and 4th setting. In this lesson I share tricks to setting your pickup height or even matching different pickups to make your stratocaster have that quack sound on the in between settings.
There is quite a bit of talk online about Stratocasters not playing well with Dumble style amps, so I made this video to show how I set my Dumble clone to get a great strat tone. I think the whole video is just the neck pickup which is an Amalfitano 60s style.
I go through different tones with the clean and overdrive, as well as the bright switch, mid boost, and PAB boost.
I can always get a great clean with the Strat and Dumble but sometimes when I’m playing live I struggle to get a balance with the overdrive channel.
I wired up my Stratocaster with the super-switch so that I could get all of my favorite pickup settings. Neck, Neck + Middle, Neck + Bridge, Bridge + Middle, and Bridge. I also put the a treble bleed circuit on a push-pull knob… when it’s in the “in” position there is no bleed. I usually don’t like the treble bleed but it’s still a cool option to have.
Here’s a really ugly diagram for the super switch wiring:
