Alder vs Basswood

[Ized]

After reading this thread, I now understood why a humbucker on my alder custom strat sounds bright and trebly. I think for my next custom guitar, I will choose basswood body and slap in 2 humbuckers in there!

depends on what high output humbuckers you put in there too....

I dont have a problem with my Hellion

 

[Whitestrat]

^ I always think that singlecoils are meant to be on an alder or ash bodied guitar. Anything else would be almost pointless, not even a guitar with a maple top for example.

Tell that to John Suhr...:mrgreen:

 

[Ized]

Eek....a Suhr? Suhr?

*runs away to play my fender*

 

[MrBukka]

Hahaha jokes jokes lol ized.......haha well although i have yet own a basswood body guitar but i have heard great tones from it especially the JP6 and an assortment of Ibanez RGs. I am currently aiming for the JP6 after trying one out recently hahaha.......after owning a strat, SG, Les Paul and a Ibanez S.......i must say that basswood does really has the most neutral tone palette.....very easy to craft a tone of your liking just by simply changing a suitable set of PUs......although to some it means bland, charaterless and flat tone as compared to other woods.....hell it all comes down to the players preference imo!

 

[subversion]

alder: http://theguitaraddict.blogspot.com/2008/11/wood-talk-alder.html

basswood: http://theguitaraddict.blogspot.com/2008/10/wood-talk-basswood.html

 

[THOA]

Are you saying that the humbucker on a HSS strat is "supposed" to be closer to the bridge than normal?

Huh? Which part of my sentence implied that?

 

[EugeneSmasher]

Fretless6, it's not that its closer to the bridge than normal, I think. It's just that there is a humbucker at the bridge position, and a humbucker at the bridge position would sound brighter than at the neck position. Correct me if I'm wrong, though...

 

[faizal_rocks]

I actually would love to get a basswood/mahagony guitar equipped with humbuckers since a bridge humbucker on a alder Strat can still sound twangy to my ears.

Thinking of making my custom Strat the traditional SSS config n then get another guitar made of basswood/mahagony with humbuckers..I have a PRS SE Doublecut in mind actually

 

[Ized]

Thats the beauty of it my friend.... a strat still sounds like a strat no matter what you put in it!