Moving into a hotter tone range, more towards ZZ Top and/or Stevie Ray Vaughan cranked up a lot. A Torres "Blues Strat" BluesCaster or Torres "Very Vintage" Strat BluesCaster would be the perfect setup. Excellent fat, warm tone with very good sustain and ultra-authentic strat tone. A hotter setup is Duncan/Torres BluesCaster (with a hot rails in the bridge for strong lead tones, and "duckbuckers" in middle and neck for classic strat tone - very cool but goes away from the "authentic" strat single coil tone.) Or choose the Rio Grande Big Bottom BluesCaster. The Rio set has the Muy Grande pickup in the Bridge position, you get a real hot, warm, loud lead tone - hotter than any standard strat, but retaining the single coil character (with Tallboys middle and neck.) Very good for the crossover player (sometimes blues, sometimes rock.) For an all out rocker with a Strat, try the Seymour Duncan Hot Rails BluesCaster, Seymour Duncan JB Jr. BluesCaster, or Rio Grande Muy Grande BluesCaster for hot, hot tone, and tons of sustain in all positions. The Duncan BluesCasters listed here have the added advantage of being completely quiet (humbucking pickups) and still fitting your Strat with no modifications necessary. We suggest the BluesCaster (or, even better, upgrade to the BluesCaster Deluxe with a blender pot on any of the suggested setups) wiring for these setups as the versatility with the super midrange and higher value volume pot really bring out the tone of the pickups. |
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