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Ive got an Air Norton I'm going to try instead. When I get round to it. Probably in 2018.
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I love his playing but wish he'd stray away from 'that' sound. Sadly, Mark spawned a gazillion imitators in the 80s and 90s, who murdered his music in working man's clubs up and down the country - at one time all you saw were fat, balding men playing red Strats (often with too much chorus) into silverface Fender amps, almost playing Dire Straits songs... often with a flatpick. Its no wonder that I still have a 'problem' with red Strats and silverface Fender amps... even though I know they *can* and do sound epic in the right hands. (Yes, I know MK didn't use silverface - the murders did though).
Telegraph Road is a masterpiece (probably my fave DS track), with a dreadful guitar tone IMHO - imagine how that would sound played on a Tele bridge pickup with the same control over the tone control as he has over the volume? All those little ghost clicks and pulls of the end solo would just sound so much better.
But hey, if we all liked the same things...
Easily the best bridge humbucker I've ever used is the SD Screamin' Demon. Don't let the name fool you, it is a wonderfully versatile and dynamic pickup.
As for neck single coil, it'll be the one in the David Gilmour Custom Shop Strat replica thingy I played a while back. I couldn't tell you the model but a quick internet trawl should find it or @gassage will probably know straight away. Without doubt the best neck pickup I've ever heard.
How did it compare to the SSL-5?
Couldn't say with any certainty but I will say that I enjoyed playing the guitar using that sound for so long that my girlfriend wandered over the road to get a cuppa and I didn't notice!!
No one ever says 'that Les Paul bridge pick-up sound really annoys me - it's so over-used'....
I can't really think of any classic guitar tones which I particularly dislike - just those which don't neccessarily work for me as a player.
FFS - I'm not 'edgy' or 'cool'. At 46, I've long since given up any hope of ever being either of those adjectives!!
Nope, I just don't like the sound - and never had, yet I love Strats.
if you want the SSl1C-DG then www.stratcat.biz is the only place that stocks them and they're well worth it. I've got one in my 1960 strat at the moment
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
Bill Lawrence L500XL + Duncan 59
Also love the EMG81+60 set.
Erm... no it isn't, you've just made that up. I'm 41 and have no pretensions to trying to be 'trendy', 'edgy' or 'cool', I just don't and have never liked that sound. Funny thing most non-Fender players (Gibson, Hagstrom, PRS players) I've spoken to name the bridge/middle position as the first thing they don't like about Strats, or maybe they're all just trying to be trendy ?