Guitar talk, and easy guitar lessons from beginner to jazz with Birdsnake Brown
I thought I’d give the .047 cap a try for the neck pickup setting in my stratocaster. It produces a fairly dark sound as you roll the tone knob back. You could almost call it a “jazzy” tone.
A .047 tone cap is a larger value than I was used to when I made this video. Basically with tone caps, the smaller you go in value, the more midrange it preserves.
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.
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.