They all sound the same when I'm running the signal chain through a maxed out Boss HM-2

Great video. Scale length is one of those extremely obvious physical influences on your sound that many guitarists will happily ignore and then talk at length about magical diodes in pedals, expensive cables or minute differences in wood composition. All instead of actually practicing of course.

As someone who can really only have a single guitar, I've been playing an HSH Strat (well, "an S-style guitar", as they now say) for years. I like the Strat shape and how they feel, so that was a big factor. Nobody ever told me it shouldn't be done, so I just did it because I wanted more sounds out of my guitar due to a fairly wide variety of music I play. I can split both humbuckers, and I can also engage the neck pickup with any combination of the other two pickups. So it does cover a lot of ground. No, it doesn't sound like a "true Strat" or like an LP, it does its own thing and does what I want it to. The idea that someone might think a guitar like that shouldn't even exist or is "wrong" is actually quite funny to me. As if I should care what somebody else thinks about my guitar I'm quite happy with :)

I literally laugh my ass off when I hear these forum “experts” say you ruin a Strat with humbuckers and that “it will never sound right”. I’ve heard them say that a lot. Mr. Van Halen, anyone? When I say that they TRY to defend their stupid comment by saying “his tone really wasn’t that great.” 😂😂😂

I'm a former vibration test tech. You did very well explaining nodes and anti-nodes in an easy to understand manner. Where they appear does change with scale length, and pickups placement is important I'm that respect. I'd like to add that anything that resonates (most everything...) is a system. The resonant system that is a Les Paul body is very different from the system that is a Strat or tele. String tension, bolt-on vs. fixed neck, body weight and composition (trigger the tone wood argument), where the string is plucked and with what...all of these and more will affect the resonance of the system to varying degrees. Whether one agrees or disagrees with your conclusions, your video does a good job of showing that there is more to an electric guitar than just some strings vibrating over a pickup.

I'm just drooling over how gorgeous that strat looks.

While in theory that dead spot explanation has an influence on the sound quality EVERYONE who uses this as an argument overlooks one massive counterpoint. Those explained dead spot positions are there on an open string. If a string is pressed on one of the frets that division falls in different spots. You can see in practice when you need to do pick squeals. To get the same harmonic resonance on different frets you need to shift the pick position.

I really love how you dive into those little details that can have such big effects! I'm a small-time guitar builder, and I remember when I started realizing some of those things (after making errors and accidents), it was so exciting to understand why some things happen. It's great that that kind of thing is easy to learn online like this as well.

yess finally someone who understands, this is my reason on why i never really liked the sound of a strat with humbuckers in it, in my opinion still doesn't hit as hard and full sounding like a les paul with humbuckers or any other solid body guitar with humbuckers

It's an interesting one. My old 73 Fender Jaguar I've had since new has a humbucker in the middle and I toured it back in the 70s. It came directly from Fender with the humbucker loose. It's a short scale and narrow neck and was a special order. I asked for it as the idea was to not have to keep changing guitars due to the recordings of the songs and the guitars we used. I was pretty pleased as it did go some way towards that end. I was told that the pickup was one they were working on at the time. It's twice as loud as the single coils and sounds really ballsy when the single coils are switched off. I actually lent it to a well known guitarist on a gig in Germany as his Strat had been damaged. Afterwards he said a few things but the first was "you seem to have a Les Paul hiding in your guitar". I've had several other say the same since. If it does then it's a pure fluke. I still have it.

A great video. Thank you for accurately explaining in layman's terms, the basics of why this is the case. It's the next best thing to building from scratch your own guitar. Nothing taught me more about what truly makes a difference in the tone of an electric guitar.

Man…. Your videos are so educational. Thanks for everything you do and the information you share.

After watching nothing but Dylan videos all lockdown, I'm turning an old sewing machine into a pickup winder. Once I make the perfect high-output ceramic shredder, I'm gonna name it the Dylan McKrunchy.

I believe the difference in tone is the sum of many small factors. Scale length and pickup position may be one of those factors. However, every fret changes the location of the string's vibration nodes and relative position of the pickups so it's not as simple as it first seems. When you play an E# at the first fret, your Strat isn't going to sound more Gibson-like.

I reckon this is one of the nicest channels to watch with an evening drink after a hard day's night.

Helpful. Thanks. I swapped the humbuckers between a Les and an EVH and i couldnt believe the results! The guitars still sounded exactly like they did originally. I learned that tone is in the guitar not the pickups. Your explanation adds another reason why this is the case. Cheers.

it's all about the scale length and the position of the buckers on said scale length

Awesome video as always. I'd also like to add: Different geometries in different instruments like a strat and a LP for example changes the way you play the guitar. The attack on strings would be different, the way you fret the notes also. So besides all those fisical facts about the guitars per se, the tone would also not be the same simply because you can't play two different guitars the same way

My number one guitar right now is a Godin with a 25.75” scale that I installed some Fender “No Caster” Tele pickups into - but also left a Strat single coil pickup in the middle position that I can add into the mix with a toggle switch. This gives me the 3 position tele sounds PLUS another 3 “in-between” Strat sounds when I toggle on the middle pickup. I LOVE IT!

Awesome video!! I have a PRS SE Custom 24 and I have been toying with the idea of changing the pickups out to a different Humbucker in the bridge with the ability to split it and a Humbucker style P90 in the bridge position.

I have an Eddy-inspired Strat, but I put my pickup parallel to the bridge and about 1/2inch twd the neck to be a bit less thin and trebly. The fact that you can play with pickup position just by making a pickguard has to make Strats the best platform for trying things like this. Good vid, thanks

I’ve had just a bridge full size humbucker in my Strat for a decade, and I recently upgraded it to a Fishman Fluence Classic, and it’s my favorite guitar I own now. I prefer it over my “cool” guitars (Mustang, Jazz Master, Casino). I tune down to D and use 9-46s, and it does something I’ve been searching for for awhile. It isn’t a Les Paul, and it’s more powerful than a Strat. It is it’s own thing.

Great video. I always suspected as much about the bridge and how much it affects tone, but your point about measurement is spot on.

For the first bass I made from a slab of wood, I attached the machine heads and bridge before routing the pickups. I placed the pickups by finding where I had harmonics on the strings, rather than by measuring where pickups were placed on other basses. I'm planning to build other basses now; probably the most unorthodox pickup configuration I'm considering is a '51 Precision-style with a Ric 4000-series bridge pickup. And these considerations are what led me to this video. Thank you, Dylan.

In my 40+ years of playing I've never heard this theory before, and it makes total sense! I built a project guitar a few years back, a MIM Strat with Pearly Gates pickups wired in the normal humbucking fashion. It sounded half-@ssed, so I wired the pickups in series and it now sounds like a Strat with souped-up single coil pickups. I use it a lot as my go-to Strat (I usually play a Les Paul).

I ordered a mod shop Strat with dual humbuckers, instead of HSS or SSS and love that its a familiar set up to my Gibson LP, but with a bit different tone for some variety

Very nice video, Dylan! Im planning to put humbuckers in one of my Strats and this video helped to do that! Thanks!

Hey, Dylan! Yet another excellent video! You are absolutely correct in your statement that the scale length affects the tone, by re-locating the nodes & anit-nodes, as compared to other scale lengths, thereby changing where the pickup is located, relative to the nodes! In fact, I remember seeing a bass guitar, made I believe by Epiphone, which had only a single pickup and no typical "tone" controls - instead, the pickup was located on a pair of rails, and could be slid nearer to the bridge, or nearer to the neck, thus amplifying different harmonics, and in turn giving a "brighter" or "darker" tone! However, keep in mind that the scale length also affects the tension on the strings, such that, given the same gauge of strings, they would need to be tuned "tighter" on a longer scale length than on a shorter one, in order to maintain "standard" tuning. This increased tension tends to subdue the vibrations of the lower harmonic frequency, which require a larger excursion (wider swing) than higher frequencies, thus giving an overall brighter or "twangier" sound!

Hi Dylan, I have a 72 Thinline Telecaster with an ash body, maple neck and fretboard. It came with 2 humbuckers, but not the Fender Wide range ones. The pickups are from a PRS SE model. It has a 3 position switch and push push pots for more tone selections. Since it is a semi hollow body due to the left side of the body having the Florentine cut, the control cavity under the pick guard and the top being a cap like an ES 335 it does sound quite a bit different. It does get a sound pretty close sound to an ES 335 when the pickup selector switch is in the mid position and the controls are in the normal position.

Man, you explained that really well! Gonna reference this in the future.

Thank u for building my first pickguard,,,I actually changed to a different guitar and pick guard then changed it back.but your pickups are great u set me up humbucker 2 single coils I took Indio 100 guitar put hipshot locking tuners, I grounded cavities with alum tape connected with groundwires it has nearly no noise either in single coil mode or humbucker..plays pretty darn good I've been at it for 2yrs made a little progress....Thank u for helping me get started

Love your channel. Gives me so much important information in such a nice way

That's why I love my Tele Custom. Single in the bridge, and Wide Range in the neck. Great and unusual to me. All my guitars are unique in voice. That's why I have and keep them. I don't want a "One Guitar to Rule them All."

100% Right on regarding the significance of differences in scale length and guitar architecture. When the telecasters first appeared traditionalists felt they were cheap junk. Despite that, they succeeded in creating their own unique nitch in sound and performance.

Excellent Video, I learned a lot from that. I also wondered what the difference was on an SG vs. a Les Paul.

Thank you for such a clear, logical explanation! I have never heard this before, and I have learned a lot from this video. Now subscribed!

My Fender Sixty Six came stock with a pretty unconventional pickup setup: a Humbucker on the bridge and telecaster single coils on the middle and neck…. And I love it!

Two weeks ago I bought a Slick SL55. I wanted to get it because it has a Gibson scale length on a Telecaster style body with filtertron pickups. I have Telecaster style guitars with traditional Fender scale length and P90s, another with Humbuckers, and one with traditional Telecaster pickups.. It's interesting how much the sound changes with the different pickups and placement. Thanks for your video.

I started off being certain that the only real difference is the longer scale 25-1/2 in. VS. 24-3/4 (Gibson), but optimal positioning of the pickups under the strings undoubtedly makes a significate difference in sound as well. Thanks for the info!

Very informative video! I had never considered that scale length played such a role in overall tone. Strat, Tele, Les Paul, they all sound good to me...

Love it! technically fairly correct. Easier to say pickup placement in ratio to scale length is different, affecting tonality. scale length alone would've settled the premise. Now go search some Tele Deluxe vs Les Paul sound comparisons. You hear a fender scale length being a fender scale length, BUT, with the Seth Lover Pickups, placement running the same amp there is only a bit more treble to the fender and low E chord plays less muddy, but man, Its a Paul enough character that it would take an extreme cork sniffer to pick it out of a recording.

Such a wonderfully non-pretentious video full of expert info in layman's terms. I have always favored Gibson and the like while not discounting Fender style humbucking guitars. I am a new fan and subscriber as a result of your delivery.

Enjoyed that explanation and dig your philosophies... first time here.. subscribed! ;-) Had a buddy in 1990 that was excited about his newly aquired Fender Tele he had just put Humbuckers on ... had no Idea at that time what he was talking about... since then, picked up the guitar and this video gives new perspective to the whole topic.. his guitar sounded GREAT, btw... but definitely it's own flavor, as you point out here.."Let the flavor, be the flavor." ... words to live by.. ^_^ Thanks, brother... happy to have found you...

Excellent information. I've never had the "nodes" explained so well. I intentionally bought a new Fender MIJ Strat Boxer, because of dual hums. It Kicks my MIA Strat around the block. Thanks for this vid.

That guitar is B E A U T I F U L! I'm really starting to like that vintage white and torti pick guard look.

Scale length is huge when it comes to humbuckers but oddly nowhere near as big of a deal when it comes to single coils. Put a conversion neck on a single coil Strat or Tele and the tiny difference will be nixed once in the mix with a band; put a conversion neck on a Strat or Tele with humbuckers and you have a different guitar. Not better or worse, just different. It is wildly cool. Try it if you get the chance.

It's not too often I actually learn something new from these kind of videos but I'm glad I watched this video. I now (sort of) understand why an SG sounds different than a Les Paul.

Really enjoyed this. Super good explanation of something I never knew the answer to until now! Thanks! Also - that guitar colorway is gorgeous. I would love to own that guitar.

I like your attitude of “just do whatever you want” I really think that is the key. There’s so many other companies out there now making hybrids of Gibson/Fender styles anyways that the actual instrument you play is kind of irrelevant.

Great video and analysis man! What about a Fender Mustang HH with hard tail bridge?? They have the exact same scale than gibsons (24.75"). If you install gibson pickups on it, should it sound the same??

“ any combination of pick ups in any guitar”- I like that. I noticed right away during the demonstration at the beginning of this video, the sound did retain a Strat like quality, even with the humbuckers. Great video - keep them coming

Excellent explanation of exactly why the scale length alters the sound -- I think it's something most guitarists figure out by experience, but the nodes chart and nodes explanation really helps.

Thank you! After realizing tone wood makes no difference for electric guitars (SMG on KZfaq did a great video on this) I wondered why guitars sound so different between brand and model when the pickups are the same. This cleared it all up for me. If only guitar companies spent more time on these factors while elaborating on them rather than the sexier “tone wood” bs.

That is a good question, maybe it's the maple neck? I'm just guessing. Try changing the pickups to a Classic '57 or a Seymour Duncan JB, or a Dimarzio Distortion? Maybe that is a good thing that it doesn't sound like a Les Paul. It has a unique personality about it. It's sounds just different.

Great video Dylan. I have a T styled guitar with a little 59 in the bridge (so a humbucker) and Tele with a P90 in the neck. I love them both...all good fun....Thanks

Great explanation! Understanding a complex concept in your own head is one thing, but explaining that concept to someone who doesn't have a clue is an entirely different thing. You did a nice job. Explaining the interactions between bridge height. truss rod adjustment and nut slot height would be a tricky undertaking too.

Okay about scale length, but then just place the pickups in the same relative location on the Strat vs the Les Paul, and you greatly reduce any effect of scale length on the sound. Would be a good experiment to prove or disprove sonic differences due to pickup location.

My favorite guitar right now is a 2020 epiphone standard SG that I modded with a fender jaguar pickup in the middle position. I tune down to C standard and call it doom twang.

i love learning something new every day. Thanks man!

Thank you for this video! Love your content! Also you can consider the humbucker width / coil geometry in relation to the scale: On a shorter scale, the two coils of humbucker will "see" a bigger percentage of the string than on a longer scale. That's why mini humbuckers also don't sound like humbuckers, and P90 or Jazzmaster pickups do not sound like a single coil. I bought a Samick SMX-4 recently, and it took me some time that this guitar will not sound like a HSS Strat, despite it's 25.5 scale length. The body is made of Nato and the neck is bolt-on Birdseye Maple with an Ebony fretboard. And it has a Stop Tailpiece. And an EMG SA-SA-89 set. Guess what, it's really not a Strat. :) But, in the end, this exact guitar - after 20 years of playing - made me think different about how a guitar is not just the scale and the pickup combination. Which is good, so I have more reasons to own more different guitars :)

Enlightening! Doesn't sound like an LP; still sounds damn good.

Strat with humbuckers = Eddie Van Halen = “Super Strat” = Ibanez and every other guitar made in the 1980s. (plus Floyd Rose)

Good one. I like the idea that each is different. The architecture of the guitar, scale length etc, sets the baseline. Pickup positioning and type is a coloration on the base.

I whole heartedly agree! That's one of the reason guitar is so great. Guitar players have a crazy amount of options. Speaking of options, I'd love to hear your humbuckers through various type of overdrive pedals. Specifically, op amps, jfets & mosfets...clean boost to dimed...guitar volume minimum to maximum. I'll sub & hit the bell so that I don't miss the video!

but will a LP with single coils sound more like a strat than a strat with humbuckers sound like a LP ?

Would be really curious about how a Tele bridge PU sounds in a Les Paul…, honestly!

Always learn something new from you. Very informative 👍

I was recording a song with my Stratocaster HSS and I was wondering this exact question! Awesome job explaining 👏 👍👍

But, a Tele with Humbuckers is amazing. I personally like and play my Tele (with Dylans pickups), much more than my Les Paul!

I want to see a pickup set that can be slid forwards and backwards to hear the difference and find the best spots

I really like that guitar's look. Super classy. Nice video. I agree, let each guitar live as its own thing. It seems like any of the innovators in guitar never worried about copying other guitars or sounds, often times they used what they had and modified them to get the sound they were looking for.

Great video Dylan! I know a lot of people who need to see this. I've always wanted a Strat with two humbuckers. Now I might just build one.

Battle of the single coils. Strat with 3 P-90 pickups and/or Tele with P-90s.

Don't forget that Strats are routed heavily behind the pickguard, creating a chambered effect. Also, the pickups are mounted onto the pickguard, not the body. These factors also influence tone dramatically.

Excellent !!! I watched this and thought you did fabulous. I subscribed within the first couple of minutes. I always enjoy how some people will just critique and some will criticize and use excessively strong maybe even harsh words. Their motives for doing so will vary from one end of the scale (no topically related pun intended) "just trying to help the audience" all the way to "trying to show how much smarter they are than the presenter". These videos often evolve into a demonstration in human behavior. I understand your perspective, you had no intention of turning us into musical engineers in under 14 minutes, but you gave us a couple of very interesting knowledge nuggets to start to help us get our heads around something that probably many who have experimented with pickups and wondered why we didn't get the sound we were expecting (like a good science/technology teacher would do). Now you've made me want to do some deeper research and try to understand in more depth about some of what you mentioned. I can tell by some of your statements early on, that were clearly anticipating the range of responses (I actually LOLed). To me that means you understand your audience quite well. I don't often comment but I did so this time because I sincerely hope you keep sharing your insights with us and Thank you !!!

I modded my ST-Style Guitar with two humbuckers in SC-Size in bridge and neck position. This lady sounds way better now. Crazy & amazing. It's a personal preference for sure. Position 3 is still straty, 1 and 5 really have much more umpf now. I love it. The work was much fun and the sound is satisfying great! Cheers😊

I’ve got 2 Warmoth Strats with 24.75” scale length necks and a single bridge humbucker each, specifically built them to mimic the Tom Delonge style Strat but ended up doing my own thing. They both have a coil split in case I want a more traditional Strat sound, but needless to say, they still sound like strats compared to my Les Pauls, they’re just different animals entirely, but ultimately they sound close enough when running a high-gain sound. Mine probably sound closer to Les Pauls because they’ve got Tune-O-Matic bridges as well. If you want to see one of them, click on my profile here on KZfaq

I get why scale length and pickup placement would make a difference on open strings, but once you fret a note, all the nodes and anti-nodes have shifted, right? It seems to me that the string tension and the bridge design have a greater effect than scale length as an independent factor. The guitar sounds great and I appreciate the discussion, so much respect.

I have a Strat that I made a 24.75" scale, (mighty might 3x3 gibsonesque neck), put a couple of Gibson Humbuckers in it, changed out the bridge mounting screws for flat ones and installed longer saddle screws so I could intonate it correctly. Sounds fantastic but nothing like an LP or a Strat... definitely it's own entity. Great video, thanks for sharing!

Great explanation of what's going on Dylan. Scale length is one of the determining factors. However it's also got to do with where the string nodes appear in relation to the pickup position. Just saying moving the pickup closer to the bridge yields more highs or moving it away more lows is correct, but it can also affect the volume output too depending on how much the string is vibrating at the node above the pole pieces. I would imagine with all of the different Gibson pickup placements over the years, that some thought went into where the pickup sounded best in comparison to the vibrating nodes, not just practical manufacturing design (like moving the neck pickup back on an SG because of the neck tenon).

Research it dont just take my word but zz top used teles live for years and got the audio to come out les paul theres videos that describe how they did it every show... and simply cuz dude liked the tele neck and light weight lol theres also vids of people putting strat single coils in les Paul's and playing Hendrix and it's very dead on but with distortion and fuzz and modern tech you can get any sound these days personally I prefer single coils In my fender types but the bridge bucket in a strat and jag and neck of a tele deff has a large following

To be honest, even PRS SC245 with exactly same scale length as '59 Les Paul, sounds nothing like a Les Paul ;)

I'm working on a build right now that is a PRS style body/scale with a P90 bridge pickup and a tele neck. I'm super stoked, I've never seen that combo before and I think it's gonna rock!

Great explanation and you are the only person (like, ever, in the entirety of KZfaq( to ask people to subscribe and explain what it gets them, rather than what it does for you. So thank you for that. As far as "weird" pickups, this doesn't really count since they were designed like this in the factory, but I love having the Jumbo MFD pickups on my G&L ASAT Special. Those things are a little-known secret.

"These pick-ups are lower output than the P90s in my SG" - there you go with the main reason why it will never sound like a Gibson, even if these pick-ups were on a Gibson. I remember reading about how Gibson won the "loudness war" in the late 50s, how their PAF pick-ups were designed and often set high to be louder than the competition. They were sacrificing clarity (through increased inductance) for output level and that shaped "the Gibson sound". It became a stylistic choice and Fender took the opposite camp as a differentiation. This is why they went for "wide range humbuckers" that would preserve the Fender clarity instead of emulating the Gibson style. Gibson went further in their own direction by using 300K pots instead of the usual 500K for humbuckers. These two were openly flying different colours. You need PAF and 300K pots to "sound like a Les Paul", not low output humbuckers designed for better clarity.

Very interesting video, but I'm skeptical about the importance of the scale length. Put a capo on the first fret of the strat, and you have effectively shortened its scale length. Retune it, and suddenly it sounds more like a Gibson? I would not think so. I’d say the mass of the guitar, the type of bridge (tremolo vs. fixed), and the neck construction (bolt-on vs. glued) probably are more important IMHO. Maybe even how the pickup is fixed to the guitar (to the pickguard or to the body). But regardless what are the reasons for sounding different, there is no point in saying that any design is superior than the other, just play what feels good to you!

Great explanation.. as usual thanks... you asked for unusual pickup set ups.. on most strats... I rewire .. to use one of the tone controls to put pickups 1 ad 2 and 2 and 3 in series.. in other words when I turn the knob and use the 5 way.. positions 1 and 5 give me humbucker wiring.. and noise cancelation.. pos 2,3,4 give mid single.. center pickup needs to be reverse wound... when the pot is not turned it works like a regular 5 way strat.. works with standard single coils.. but also works well with noiseless pickups.. another thing I use that I like.. is not having a toggle switch on a 2 pickup guitar.. instend a blend pot.. or a slider.. works great

My “secret” favorite combination for a great studio tone. Fender Duo-Sonic (24” ‘short scale’) with 2 Dimarzio Pro Track single sized humbuckers. It is has a great, very musical voice and easy to play.

Strats with humbuckers are my jam. Once you're in distortion land, everything goes out the window. Nobody listening to metal would ever be able to tell if someone is using a strat or LP.

With all due respect this is nonsense. When you change the vibrating length of a string, those nodes and anti-nodes move. Plus the magnetic field of a Gibson style humbucker is much larger than the magnetic field of a Fender single coil. Therefore, the single coil pickup placement should be MORE sensitive to node/anti-node than a humbucker. Break angles over the bridge saddles and nut do make a difference. Tremolo vs. fixed vs. tune-o-magic bridges make a difference. Heck, even saddle material does. A set neck (or neck thru) makes a difference. Body weight and thickness make a difference. That maple fingerboard vs. rosewood or ebony makes a difference. But I think where you pick the string and what you pick it with makes a bigger difference than 1/4” this way or that with humbucker placement.

Thanks for the knowledge man! Definitely going to research more about nodes and antinodes. Never heard those terms before, but its very fascinating to me and now i need to know more. 😄🤓🧐. I love these types of topics, but its hard to research things if u dont have a baseline to jump off of even if its something as simple as a term. Thank you for sharing!

I ordered a custom guitar from a local shop. Strat body shape but Gibson-like scale length and 2 SD P-Rails. Excited to see the end result in about a month

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You made an explanation I always noted but it was never been explained to me. Thank you a lot, Dylan.

I've got a pickup replacement success story for you. A bunch of years ago, I experienced an Epiphone Les Paul Plus Top Pro FX, which equates to a Les Paul Standard equipped with a Floyd Rose Special vibrato. I LOVED the sound of the guitar, but was too broke to buy it. It left quite the impression, though. Recently, I acquired and began modifying an Ibanez RG220B, which is a super Strat. The last mod was installing a pair of Epiphone Alnico Classic humbuckers, which I found on Ebay for (really) cheap. To my surprise, the guitar sounded and sounds almost exactly like that Les Paul! Yes, I can almost hear you saying that I have forgotten much about the sound of that Les Paul. That thought has crossed my mind many times, but since my ears are happy with what they hear when I play the thing, I call the whole affair a clear win! Also, I'd like for someone to tell me that this guitar wasn't meant to sound the way it does now. First, it had two humbuckers stock -- just not the same ones. Second, the intent was and is MINE, and I say it IS supposed to sound this way. So there!😎 😎❤️️🎸‼️

Great info . . . keep 'em coming mate !

Tele with a humbucker in the neck is my favorite guitar set up, I have about 7 or 8 of them, all great guitars. Building a strat right now with Humbucker neck and a Tele bridge, cant wait to see how that comes out. I don't expect them to sound like anything else, but I do expect any guitar I build to sound GREAT. So far, all good!

Great vid! My guitar of choice for the last 15 or more years has been a Stratocaster with humbuckers. My current go-to is a EBMM Albert Lee HH which is basically a re-imagined strat with a Jetsons-like offset body. I like that it can get heavy when i want it to and basically hang with a Gibson but also lay back and get quite Fendery. I also have one of the cheaper mexican EVH striped series with the single EVH Wolfgang pickup and decked Floyd Rose and this thing is completely it's own animal - flowing with Edward's DNA if that's your thing. Regarding having a tremolo - listen to Robert Cray, he uses hardtail Statocasters and has a much differnt, snappier sound than the trem models. Amazing how much difference there is between trem and fixed bridge.

I recently bought a set of your Centerpunch pickups which are going in a Strat. I have been experimenting with orientation of pickups (slugs out/slugs in), to get the best results in single coil mode. I think I will end up with the neck pickup slugs out as it approximates a Strat neck pickup placement and sounds good. Bridge will be slugs in because the single coil sound is not as usable when so close to the bridge. It would be a good follow up to this video to demonstrate the differences in the various positions. Plus you could demo some very cool pickups.

Great video 📹 being a tone chaser myself. This video is great. If you collect guitars, you will go down this road. Having all combinations is what its all about making your guitar collection a very interesting and versatile. A true game changer.