Heavy Tone

Well I bought a fender strat awhile back and at the time didn't exactly know what kinda of music i wanted to play. Now I am moving toward more heavy metal type stuff but I was wondering what would be the best pickups for my strat to give me that heavier tone. I'm also using a heavy metal distortion pedal but i want a little bit better sound.

hi im not sure but perhaps some seymour duncan(i think) hot rails
There what john 5 uses on one of his teles

If you want a heavier tone it could be that you should get a guitar with humbuckers. Single coils, like in a Strat, have a thinner, more trebly sound while humbuckers are more heavy and thick-sounding.

Originally Posted by: acapellaIf you want a heavier tone it could be that you should get a guitar with humbuckers. Single coils, like in a Strat, have a thinner, more trebly sound while humbuckers are more heavy and thick-sounding.

That's why they make single-coil sized humbuckers, no need to buy a new guitar. :cool:

to be honest, depending on your gear, you don't even need new pickups, I have a fender bullet strat myself, after owning an Abilene (no-name brand) guitar, and to be honest, there's no such thing as "i need to buy this to get this tone" I've always been able to at least manage.... plus if im recording to a computer the options are almost limitless.

I've heard seymour duncans are a good brand to get, as i had the same idea as you at first, but since getting a pod 2.0(borrowed from a friend), plus what I already know due to programs like audacity, its that if you really want to get a heavy tone, even on **** equipment, generally crank the bass and treble, drop the mid range, make sure your distortion pedal's distortion effect is on 10 and do the same with the bass and treble again, Hopefully this will do what you need and i havent just stated things youve already done,
Otherwise, there are cheaper alternatives to seymour duncans, hell ill even ring my local guitar store if you want and see what i can find out

I suppose it is a little different for me, my amp died so im using a computer.... .all the more reason i say its possible to get any tone you want!

well could I put dual humbuckers on my standard stratocaster?
If so could someone recommend someone that sells HH pickguards.

Purely out of curiosity - what Amp are U using ?

its just a practise amp. a marshall MG15DFX.

Check out the Everything Axe set of mini buckers from Seymour Duncan. My friends got them in one of his '57 Reissues... and they can pretty much get any tone you want. Especially the heavier tones. The set comes with a set of Mini JB/Mini '59 for the neck and bridge and another mini for the middle called a DuckBucker. It's kind of expensive but well worth it!!!

you might want to try some thicker strings and different tunings

get some emg's- a pro series pickguard is a direct replacement for a strat- just wire the jack and your done. either 2- 81 humbuckers or if you want to keep the strat sound in the neck an 81 in the bridge and 2 sa's up front. you wont believe the difference

you might be able to put in humbuckers, im not sure about fenders but i know ibanez"under the scratch plate" of H S S models they have a humbucker spacing which means all u might have to do is, get new scratch plate and put everything back on bt get a H S S one or possibly try cutting it out or getting it cut out

~DONT TRY THIS UNLESS U ARE CONFIDENT~ or get some one else to do it for you

+1 for the "Everything Axe" mini humbuckers set.

Also good is the "Fat Strat" HSS config, which I have. A high-gain humbucker in the bridge, like with ceramic rails... and a set of Hot Rails or something similar in the mid/neck, and the thing will shriek like a banshee and will have bottom-end satisfactorily close enough to a double humbucker setup.