Dan is one of those rare humans that just seems to listen to what ever shit you say and always looks interested And makes you feel better about yourself. I think we can all learn a little from that. Cheers Dan
I really enjoy the contrast of these two great players, personalities. Dan really is a great example of having his cup half full, not half empty. I find this show really inspirational, makes me want to be a better player. Easily the best time spent on youtube to me. I've recommended it to many guitar players.
Gents: this week I received an email from Wildwood asking how I'd like my Sonic Blue 59 AVRI Strat set up--which came as a total shock as I'd ordered no such thing. But it was the closest thing to Mick's "Blue" that my wife and kids could turn up. For Father's Day. Mick: my family knows Blue. And how much I love TPS, clearly. Dan: they know Butters, too. That's what they call my 53 blackguard now, thanks kindly. Me, I may start calling them "Mick" and "Dan". Have a great weekend!
@@kurtisr2339 i think i shall leave your comment on full view on my ipad in the kitchen 👀 but seriously, enjoy that - and i am sure that guitar will have pride of place for the rest of your days!
You guys should film an episode when Anderson’s reopens where Mick buys a Tele and Dan buys a Strat!! Dan on a Strat is something I need more of in my life
The reason the Strat is so popular is that you can, with pedals, make it sound just as aggressive as a Les Paul or any other humbucker style guitar while at the same time getting all the tones that are exclusive to the Strat. Plus, in my opinion, the longer scale gives you more integrity tuning wise especially with the hard tails I favor.
You can do a long show if the content is good. The content of TPS is amazing. I'll very likely watch this whole episode again in a few months and I will undoubtedly learn new things when I do. The care and love you both show for the instruments, the music, and for each other is brilliant. Heartfelt thanks and don't limit yourselves!
I was lucky enough to speak briefly to Dan after we saw Mick play at the venue formerly known as Colton Hall in Bristol, doing a big Hendrix set - he was SO EXCITED about Mick’s playing and rightly so
There's nothing I love more than watching a guy nerd-out about his favorite instrument. Agree, don't agree, whatever. But you can't help but love the enthusiasm AND if you take the time to listen you almost always learn something.
Dan and Mick are both spectacular players, no matter what they say. It was genuinely a pleasure however to watch two great players (and more importantly friends) just hang out and create. Top notch mates
This really hits on something that has a profound impact on my own music making: turn it up loud and play/sing softly. As a singer, I've found it's a whole new ball game when you get the mic nice and hot and then stay away from it - it opens up a whole new dynamic range. The same holds true for guitar. Daniel Lanois is an excellent example of this approach. What an amazing resource this show is - it goes way beyond shredding and geekery and really gets into the point of the whole thing: inspiration. Much love from Charleston!
Totally agree - it is a timbre thing as well as a dynamic thing. The tones one can achieve through singing relaxed and gentler are velvety and richer. I find exactly the same with the guitar
I finally understand why Mick loves Tubescreamers so much. I play Tele. Don't have a Strat so I'm not able to duplicate his experience. Every episode of TPS never fails to enlighten me in some small or large way. Thanks guys.
Man, I love this channel. There's just no "I will now disclose the secrets of the universe to you, oh mortal" , but just two really nice guys exploring music, gear and guitar, while I'm in the room just listening in. It's great!
While I’d enjoy that, sort of the beauty of Teles is…there’s just not that much to talk about? They’re the closest you can come in an electric guitar of ‘just a chunk of wood with some strings nailed to it’. They’re not a highly complicated instrument kept in (somewhat precarious) balance like a Strat is.
I’ve always loved Mick’s playing, and now I know why. He totally understands his instrument; it really is like an extension of his own body considering he knows it quite literally like the back of his hand.
Yep. I watched the entire episode. I was a Strat player for most of my life but some years ago I found this one particular Tele that became my #1 guitar and the Strat just became a backup. This episode made me grab my Strat again. That Tele will surely still be my #1 always, but I'm sure my Strat was pleased to be played again after so long. Thanks for the episode.
I just love watching an enthusiast talking about what they are enthusiastic about. It doesn't really matter what it is, but the excitement is infectious.
To me, the visuals of the Strat are just so good. It looks like you think an electric guitar should look. This design is from what, 1954? And it still looks futuristic today. Immortal. Before you even hear the thing, you want to own it.
This episode proves our experiences with guitars are often more about our experiences as people-trial and error, unexpected discovery, falling in and of love, patience and understanding, and ultimately finding your own voice.
also Rory Gallagher, Adrian Belew, Ry Cooder, Lowell George, and Robby Robertson as well. there are literally too many to mention them all (but it's fun to try)! 😊
I got my first Strat last week after years with an Epi Les Paul and a PRS S2 Custom. Rewatching this with an entirely new focus. I find there is a lot to learn… the personality of the pickups couldn’t be more different. This is awesome content; surely helps getting up to speed faster.
This might be the most instructive content I’ve seen on RUclips. I will be watching this multiple times with a strat and pedals in hand and working through all the tonal and setup ideas.😮
Gentlemen, as a 30+ yr Strat player, thank you for the indulgence. what a great insight, for me, one of your best ever sessions and as Dan said, beautiful playing too....
@@ThatPedalShow You guys seriously need to get over that. Sure, people new to the channel may watch 20-30 min. and tune out and move on, but the TPS audience watches all of it, even if it takes a few sittings to get through a full episode. Just because I have to watch it in 20 min. chunks does not mean I wish the shows were 20 min. Keep in mind that data showing people watching 10 min. of old episodes is probably your loyal audience looking for insight on a specific pedal from an old show rather than new people watching a few minutes and moving on. I know the shows seem really long when you are editing and rendering them, but I have never felt a single episode was too long.
@@billgreen3629 seconded! Especially the part about going back and watching just 5-15 minutes of an old episode. Particularly "Dan and Mick's Pick'n Mix" shows I will go back and watch just a segment of if some new pedal you gents are using reminds me of when it first got a few minutes of love.
I have an 82 hardtail. I love my strat and I am also committed to buying my first Tele because of Dan's ethereal moving chords. I've learned so much from your show. Both of you guys are in my top 25 favorite players. Mark Knopfler is at the top. Can't thank you guys enough. Cheers.
I always love to see you guys reach for knobs, hardly touching let alone twirling the knobs and suppose you have another sound.Very amusing.Keep up the good work!
This is the best episode of a guitar show I’ve ever seen. The oozing enthusiasm and love is just contagious. The follow up telecaster episode was equally amazing. Very cool.
I really hope Dan does a video like this for Teles. Also I finally bit the bullet recently and bought a nice American made Strat off of Reverb after resisting for ages, and I ended up loving it so much.
Same as. Have for years had just LP’s. I remember trying out a Strat in a shop many years ago and found it weird and that left a lasting impression. Forward wind to a couple of months ago and I fell in love with the 2 & 4 positions on a friend’s Strat and consequently bought a 20 year old American Strat. Never been happier and more inspired to play 😊💜🎸
@@riklionheart23 My big thing is that modern strats just all look and sound the same to me, so I got in to PRSs that are a bit more unique. Then I tried the wife’s MIM HSS Strat and loved it, started digging in to the gear of my guitar heroes and it got me hunting a Strat of my own. Found a 1995 American Standard in Electric Blue for a smoking deal and have been playing the everloving daylights out of it
I did the same about two years ago with the Yosemite pick ups and wow I never looked back! I wanted so hard to be a gibson fan but last night I had a realization that… IM A STRAT PLAYER. not looking back. 😅
I know I commented a year ago, but this is still the best channel into jam ever! It gets me in the feels every time, lol! Thanks again for the inspiration Mick. 🍻
Talking about most guitar heros playing Strats: I think it has a lot to do with a strat needing space in the mix. To me it just sounds so unique, it instant makes the band sound like its centered around the guitar. For me playing a tele for example, is more like a sideman thing, cause it sits in mix nicer, and is more capable of filling spots.
Absolutely, I've got a Maxon vop9 that has been main od pedal for the better part of a decade. It's a great pedal with a little less of a mid hump than most tube screamers, a bit more transparent. I've tried many others but it's still my main od, I do use it with a Timmy every now and then.
3:33 - I can think of no episode you chaps have done where I have learned nothing new. Thank you for continuing to state the obvious such that we can be reminded of the bloomin' obvious. Sometimes, it's a massive help to open the mental horizons.
Fantastic information here, I’ve been playing strats for 25 years and thought I knew most things, but I learnt so much. The resonance with being tuned lower is a beautiful thing. I turned my first cheap strat into a kind of baritone by putting 13s and tuning to B and it feels very alive
I had a love/hate thing with strats for years until I really found the right one and found the pickups that fit it well. Oh, and tuning it down half a step made a huge difference for me as well.
You just HAVE TO make a "Part 2", no other option. Such a great video! You can sense both knowldege and passion in every word you say and every note you play. Great watch! Thank you!
I keep one Strat with Memphis wiring. 3-way switch with one master volume and one master tone. The third knob blends in the middle pickup. It does a Tele-esque B&N sound and all three pickups on sound which I like a lot for slide. I also like standard 5-way wiring a lot also. It easier live.
I’ve played Strats for a long time although recently I’ve been playing Gibson type guitars (335, Les Paul, SG etc.) quite a bit as well there’s something about a clean Strat in the in between positions with “too much reverb” and a little delay that just makes me happy. There’s something about that jangley, springy tone that’s just good for the soul sometimes. I always jumper the middle pickup to the neck tone when I move it’s tone to the bridge. It lets you have a tone for all 3 pickups.
What attracted me to the Strat was its singing quality, even just borrowing one from my cousin and trying it out. It has a very vocal quality, I feel, it's hard to describe but you get a lot of it in this video, so thanks very much for that.
Relaxing and playing less aggressively, while improving your dynamic range options, also helps immensely technically. You get speed, you get fluidity, you avoid tensing up, you avoid injuries and whatnot. Playing aggressively should be a technique like any other that you put in your toolbox, while there should be a conscious and constant effort in trying to be relaxed so we stay there all the time when we grab the instrument.
You're not seeing this, but I thought it was worth mentioning: I'm watching this full of excitement with my surf green CS61 on my lap. Playing some pentatonic licks in between the lines.
Jeff Beck has said it all! On Strats…,,”the most expressive”…..I’ll take HIS point of view! I feel that strats cover more ground than any other genre. The middle position IMO is the most organic sounding Another thing, you’ve doing JAZZ on a Strat!
Possibly my favorite episode yet. Thanks guys! I love Strats and I love Mick's enthusiasm for them. I learned a lot about the difference between floating and flat setting of the bridge. Very cool!
Feeling a bit under the weather today so I watched this again. I’m so glad I made it to the end, it was so funny with Mick going on forever about all the details 😂😂 Great show and I feel like I could watch it a third time, so much good Info.
I'm in love of vintage style strats in exactly the same way. But you said lots of stuff I never thought of why. Awesome and deep knowledge about strats from the user perspective. Great great stuff. Cheers
I made it to the end! I got my first strat a few weeks ago (after playing only humbuckers for years) and this is SUPER DUPER USEFUL. Make another video to cover the middle pickup! I need more information and you guys are amazing at portraying it. Thank you for being awesome!
Hank marvin recalls the first strat he saw as looking like it came from outer space. It was the most modern thing out there for a lot of our heroes when they were starting out
I have been trying to adjust to the jarring modernity for fifty years. Imagine my horror when the guys I worked for started putting in the Floyd Rose tailpieces. I recently started in with light strings and the Classic Strat bridge. A whole new world. 😁
Mark Knopfler deserves mention as a strat player - and phenomenal guitarist of course! His early Dire Straits 2nd position sound got me interested in the electric guitar - and it had to be a strat. Oddly enough I ended up buying a tele first though... Thanks guys for another great episode!
This reminds me how important speakers are in getting Strats to sound Stratty. I was trying blue and green back AC15s in a shop, expecting the pricier blue to be way better. To my ear, it made the Strat so harsh I could hardly listen to it. I switched to the green back... instant Knopfler... bought it on the spot.
When a 11 year old me heard then saw Knopfler with his strat, that was it for me, then fast forward to Stevie, i was never going to own anything else lol, but i have tried other, but the strat is the one for me.
RWRP part: In question of position 2 and 4 sound, if the 3 pickups have the same specs (same resistances/inductance), the effect will be more prominent. But If you put different resistance/inductance pickups to compensate the volume because of the position of the pickups, the desired inbetween effect will be diminished. Dan can understand this cause we are talking about pickups IN PARALLEL (resistances/inductances in parallel). That's why blue doesn't have the same sound as Blackie. My own experience when I entered in this rabbit's hole, thanks to Mike :)
This was amazing! I just got my 1st strat after years on a 335 and could def see myself falling into the hammering pit! Tried the volume/gain and that did it for me! Amazing stuff. This was a true masterclass. Thank you!
@@TheHumbuckerboy just tighten the springs and it will set on the body like a hard tail. If you really want it to be stable put 5 springs on it and tighten them down.
Great episode! I’ve been playing Strats for 40 plus years. Maybe the attraction is the fact that they’re almost impossible to nail down. I’m constantly tweaking, wrenching, soldering, sanding, bashing and screaming! I’ve come to the realization that a Strat is like a “Badass Hotrod”! Are you ever going to stop trying to make it faster? None of my Strats are perfectly dialed in; each of them fight me in their own way. I love my Les Paul’s, but they don’t argue with me like my Strats. They don’t demand my attention.
Great comment. I think that’s one of the reasons I enjoy Mick’s vlogs when he puts Blue on the workbench. I’ve owned LP’s and SG’s that never needed a single thing done to them - yet like you mention - There’s always something else to do to a Strat. For me, I think it’s because Strats are higher maintenance when it comes to tone. Anyone can click on a gain pedal and chug power chords but can anyone make a Strat sing?
Guy I have incredible news I have to tell everyone, I have finally lost my Ear V Card and it was with a Strat and a Vox AC30. For about 8 months I have been use the gear I started with which was Spark 40, Ibanez S570AH, and my acoustic. Trust me I love my Ibanez and it’s even comfier that a Strat, but it wasn’t hitting the sound I was looking for. But I picked up a Strat style guitar at my favorite guitar shop and I plugged it into the a AC30 and played the only song I know which was Lenny. My God everything bloomed and made me finally feel like I wasn’t just wasting my time. I had a smile on my face all day, and I am convinced that I’m going to get a good amp and a good Strat. Thanks for teaching me and everyone all the things you’ve learned in your lifetime guitar playing.
I’ve had countless pickups in my strat over the past 30+ years and out of all of them for me personally it’s down to 2 sets. Lace golds. (Superb sustain and takes gain well plus great clean tones) Bare knuckle irish tours. Again superb pickups
In the old days (mid '60s), decent sounding overdriven tones were hard to achieve, especially at lower volumes, which is why humbuckers and in particular Les Pauls became so popular. Now with all the pedals and built-in OD fx it's just so easy that the ability to maintain clean & semi-clean "headroom" at higher volumes is actually a more valuable characteristic for a guitar.
Terrific episode! As always, it was fun to watch and I learned a lot. (I’m considering getting a Strat and now I know so much more.) Thanks to Mick for sharing information and wisdom learned from 33 years of Stratocastering.
I just picked up a rosewood '62 AVRI Strat from 1998. I will be watching this over and over again to learn how best to get the sounds I need from my Strat. I've tried in the past (several times) and failed, and ended up selling those Strats off. But this time I am determined to use it the way it needs to be used to get sounds I can bond with, rather than complaining about how I can't get a sound I like. More videos like this one please!
Agreed with Dan! Great playing and nice to see an at-ease Mick! It's nice to see any "state" of Mick - to be fair. Although I hope I don't regret writing that last part! :D
@@ThatPedalShow Thank you Mick!! I'm equally enthusiastic about playing. Was for decades a Gibson/humbucker player, discovered and now LOVE Teles thanks to Dan and Danish Pete, and was up till 4am last night having a religious experience with a Strat I've had for decades and rarely played... I've been a high gain guy forever and you've shown me the gloriousness and beauty of clean. We shall do this till the last day. THANK YOU guys for a fantastic show and that enthusiasm 😎🤘
Okay, non- Strat guitar heroes - Slash, Jimmy Page, Billy Gibbons, Randy Rhoads, Gary Moore, Peter Green, Paul Kossoff, Albert, Freddie, BB, Angus Young, Zakk Wylde, Steve Clarke, Tony Iommi - plus my hero John Petrucci. Every electric I own right now has two humbuckers and one is semi-hollow (335) the other is a hollowbody (PRS). Having said that I do have a 57 Start being built so this episode very interesting in deed.
It’s a bit of a red herring, isn’t it? Many of the famous Strat players have sought and made spectacular music on other guitars as well. I’m always uncomfortable with definitive statements about this stuff, and was glad to see it was posed more as a question in the vid. I suspect an overwhelming reason may also be the looks. It was futuristic back in the day, highly redolent of contemporary commercial design, and has since become retro in in visual and cultural status. It was also first on a commercial scale in terms of a number of playability issues, so that has always kept it ahead of the pack.
Dan’s summation of this presentation said it all for me. Thank you Mick for the myriad of possibilities and things worth thinking about. I play both Strats and Teles and love them both. Thank you so much to you both as always.
I struggled for forty years with .12-.54 ga strings and a hardtail, but when I got myself a non-ersatz amplifier I discovered that I could use the Strat tailpiece and light strings, with the horsepower doing all the work for me. I have determined that the Bass VI may be my instrument, and I am even starting to simulate some tones like the ones real musicians make. 🤘
Baritone guitars are great instruments in their own right! I’m thinking of getting a PRS SE-277 with the coil split so I can get low but still have strat similar in-between tones.
Buddy Holly had said that the strat was great because it was louder. He played a p90 goldtop before it. Even though he’s technically wrong (the pickups are much weaker), the tweed amps he was playing would break up so easily with a Gibson. His amps could just keep getting louder with the strat without compressing and crunching up early
Less compression. Perennial problem with P90s. I know a few people who use Strats live over other guitars… where they’d use P90s and humbuckers for recording.
@@ThatPedalShow Try a P90 in the bridge position of a Strat as opposed to a humbucker. Of course check coil direction and polarity first but….for me it’s the best alternative to most Strat single coils in the bridge.
Some other great Strat players: Michael Karoli from Can and Eddie Hazel from Parliament-Funkadelic, and many of the early 90s alternative rock guitarsists such as Billy Corgan, John Frusciante, and Mike McCready.
Some of your best episodes are when you impart your extensive wisdom or get a guest on who does the same. It’s all about going on your own personal guitar journey, but learning from others experiences along the way. It is what makes TPS great. Fascinating and informative. Thank you
Mick's guitar is what got me to buy an American vintage 62 reissue. Got an obsidian blend wiring kit and some mojotone 59 clones on the way for it after having it for about 18 months. I hope I don't regret it!
I've enjoyed so many of the videos you guys have done. But this one goes to a whole new level. For so long, I wondered how it was that a small number of guitarists were able to get such nice tone out of Fender guitars, whereas the majority get horrendous tone. Uli Roth was one of my favorites, with late 70's work in the Scorpios. There was so much intensity to his playing that I imagined him really digging in with the picking hand. Then in recent years I've seen video from late 70's Scorpions, and what grabbed my attention was his right hand. So relaxed. Barely touching the strings. Almost just lightly caressing them. And over since noticed it with a few others who have gotten nice tones. But maybe it was too small a sample size. This video really nailed it for me. I don't know if the longer scale length makes them prone to the strings swinging out of control. Or what it is. But si often this metallic sound comes through that is grating. Sometimes it reminds me of when speaker cones are swinging so wildly that the voice coil starts slamming against the limit. And it creates a horrible sound. Even Stevie Ray Vaughn, whose playing amazed me from when I first heard him playing with David Bowie, the tone on his albums was hard for me to take. Too much of what I dislike about the sound of Fender guitars. I don't know what exactly causes it, but it seems to plague so many of those who play that type of guitar. Mick did an amazing job. I was bracing myself to deal with what I so often expect to hear from someone playing a Fender type guitar, but was pleasantly surprised. Well, until later into the video, and the picking became more aggressive, and some of those tones started breaking through. I don't know if it's the woods used. Or the scale length. Or what. But shorter scale guitars, with woods such as mahogany (not maple, etc), pickups that don't use the magnet slugs that point at the strings, por what it is. The closest two guitars that come close to strat are ones that I built. Neither with a neck made from maple. One having a mahogany body, and the other having a chambered Koa body. They seem to escape part of it. But I did find myself using lighter strings and tuning down a half step, to minimize those effects. But then, they don't quite really fit the place of an actual strat guitar. As I enter retirement, I'll be able to dive back into the world of guitar, and give more effort on something closer to an actual strat. This video will be quite helpful. Thank you so much for making and posting it.
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Dan is one of those rare humans that just seems to listen to what ever shit you say and always looks interested And makes you feel better about yourself. I think we can all learn a little from that. Cheers Dan
Legend. They are a perfect pair. They seem like lovely human beings as well as highly talented and gifted presenters. ( if that’s the right word)
Conmen are great at that,
@@garyjones7044 so are empaths. Listening is a skill.
I really enjoy the contrast of these two great players, personalities. Dan really is a great example of having his cup half full, not half empty. I find this show really inspirational, makes me want to be a better player. Easily the best time spent on youtube to me. I've recommended it to many guitar players.
@@hafstrat 100% agree.
Gents: this week I received an email from Wildwood asking how I'd like my Sonic Blue 59 AVRI Strat set up--which came as a total shock as I'd ordered no such thing. But it was the closest thing to Mick's "Blue" that my wife and kids could turn up. For Father's Day. Mick: my family knows Blue. And how much I love TPS, clearly. Dan: they know Butters, too. That's what they call my 53 blackguard now, thanks kindly. Me, I may start calling them "Mick" and "Dan". Have a great weekend!
that's amazing! what a wonderful thing for your family to do!
Own 3 Wildwood guitars. They are simply the best retailer. Good luck!
@@JamesOnGuitar thanks, James! It's the loveliest Father's Day gift I've received. Absolutely stunning. Cheers!
@@kurtisr2339 i think i shall leave your comment on full view on my ipad in the kitchen 👀 but seriously, enjoy that - and i am sure that guitar will have pride of place for the rest of your days!
Ah man, that is TOTALLY AMAZiNG! What a wonderful gift. Enjoy that!
You guys should film an episode when Anderson’s reopens where Mick buys a Tele and Dan buys a Strat!! Dan on a Strat is something I need more of in my life
I would watch that, comment, and go to the VCQ 🤘
YES. This. Been thinking this for awhile, but hearing Dan playing so “unchoked” on that Olive Green Strat today made me sit up.
No , we really need to shake things up .
Give Mick a Nashville Tele , and Dan a hardtail Strat , and watch each of their heads spin .
The reason the Strat is so popular is that you can, with pedals, make it sound just as aggressive as a Les Paul or any other humbucker style guitar while at the same time getting all the tones that are exclusive to the Strat. Plus, in my opinion, the longer scale gives you more integrity tuning wise especially with the hard tails I favor.
You can do a long show if the content is good. The content of TPS is amazing. I'll very likely watch this whole episode again in a few months and I will undoubtedly learn new things when I do. The care and love you both show for the instruments, the music, and for each other is brilliant. Heartfelt thanks and don't limit yourselves!
Thank you Jesse!
I fully agree Jesse I’ve already watched it twice in a week 😃
I keep coming back to this episode since being on a strat journey thing...love it. Dan and Mick are so good 👍
I love how Dan is such a fan of Mick's guitar playing
Dan’s a fan of literally anything and everything. It’s why he’s so awesome.
I was lucky enough to speak briefly to Dan after we saw Mick play at the venue formerly known as Colton Hall in Bristol, doing a big Hendrix set - he was SO EXCITED about Mick’s playing and rightly so
Stunning playing man, I’m so envious!
very talented is Mick. Best guitarist on YT. A skilful session player
To be fair everyone is a fan of Mick's playing.
There's nothing I love more than watching a guy nerd-out about his favorite instrument. Agree, don't agree, whatever. But you can't help but love the enthusiasm AND if you take the time to listen you almost always learn something.
Yes chaps! I feel like this is the culmination of all of Mick's discoveries in his strat journey in his blogs rolled into a single tasty episode.
It’s some of that!
Dan and Mick are both spectacular players, no matter what they say.
It was genuinely a pleasure however to watch two great players (and more importantly friends) just hang out and create.
Top notch mates
You’re too kind, cheers matey 🤓🙏
This really hits on something that has a profound impact on my own music making: turn it up loud and play/sing softly. As a singer, I've found it's a whole new ball game when you get the mic nice and hot and then stay away from it - it opens up a whole new dynamic range. The same holds true for guitar. Daniel Lanois is an excellent example of this approach. What an amazing resource this show is - it goes way beyond shredding and geekery and really gets into the point of the whole thing: inspiration. Much love from Charleston!
Totally agree - it is a timbre thing as well as a dynamic thing. The tones one can achieve through singing relaxed and gentler are velvety and richer. I find exactly the same with the guitar
Dan: ‘Let’s just talk about the neck pickup’
Mick: *gets misty eyed* ‘Ah, tis a thing of beauty that lad’
Hahah!!
Neck pick up on a strat is vocal like a violin. A true thing of beauty.
This is "Classic TPS" content here, and i couldn't be happier.
Thank you!
Dan is a great guy. That’s the basic building block. Of course, it certainly doesn’t hurt that Mick is a tasteful player, especially in Strat land!
I finally understand why Mick loves Tubescreamers so much. I play Tele. Don't have a Strat so I'm not able to duplicate his experience. Every episode of TPS never fails to enlighten me in some small or large way. Thanks guys.
Man, I love this channel. There's just no "I will now disclose the secrets of the universe to you, oh mortal" , but just two really nice guys exploring music, gear and guitar, while I'm in the room just listening in. It's great!
This is probably the fourth time I watch this and every time I learn something new. Thank you for the fantastic content.
Same here, and the tele video as well! Constantly pulling from the wealth of TPS knowledge
Wow guys, the amount of work with the timestamps is outstanding.
So when do we get the "Dan talks about Teles" episode?
And maybe a guest for Les Pauls and the holy trinity would be complete :)
If they do that I really look forward to it.
This x1000!
Add Gretsch and other semis like a 335 and the pantheon will be complete.
While I’d enjoy that, sort of the beauty of Teles is…there’s just not that much to talk about? They’re the closest you can come in an electric guitar of ‘just a chunk of wood with some strings nailed to it’. They’re not a highly complicated instrument kept in (somewhat precarious) balance like a Strat is.
I’ve always loved Mick’s playing, and now I know why. He totally understands his instrument; it really is like an extension of his own body considering he knows it quite literally like the back of his hand.
Yep. I watched the entire episode. I was a Strat player for most of my life but some years ago I found this one particular Tele that became my #1 guitar and the Strat just became a backup. This episode made me grab my Strat again. That Tele will surely still be my #1 always, but I'm sure my Strat was pleased to be played again after so long. Thanks for the episode.
I just love watching an enthusiast talking about what they are enthusiastic about. It doesn't really matter what it is, but the excitement is infectious.
Nailed it!
To me, the visuals of the Strat are just so good. It looks like you think an electric guitar should look. This design is from what, 1954? And it still looks futuristic today. Immortal. Before you even hear the thing, you want to own it.
This episode proves our experiences with guitars are often more about our experiences as people-trial and error, unexpected discovery, falling in and of love, patience and understanding, and ultimately finding your own voice.
Don’t forget Buddy Guy! If you’re going to mention Hendrix, Clapton, SRV, you have to mention the man who inspired them all.
also Rory Gallagher, Adrian Belew, Ry Cooder, Lowell George, and Robby Robertson as well. there are literally too many to mention them all (but it's fun to try)!
😊
Jeff Beck
They did
Don’t forget Nile Rodgers
I got my first Strat last week after years with an Epi Les Paul and a PRS S2 Custom. Rewatching this with an entirely new focus. I find there is a lot to learn… the personality of the pickups couldn’t be more different. This is awesome content; surely helps getting up to speed faster.
This might be the most instructive content I’ve seen on RUclips. I will be watching this multiple times with a strat and pedals in hand and working through all the tonal and setup ideas.😮
Gentlemen, as a 30+ yr Strat player, thank you for the indulgence. what a great insight, for me, one of your best ever sessions and as Dan said, beautiful playing too....
Hour and half strats episode. What did we do to deserve such a treat?
Ha! And here we are worrying about long episodes wanting to make everything short. Ha. Almost didn’t put this out. What’s wrong with us!?
Half hr per pickup
Right?!?
@@ThatPedalShow You guys seriously need to get over that. Sure, people new to the channel may watch 20-30 min. and tune out and move on, but the TPS audience watches all of it, even if it takes a few sittings to get through a full episode. Just because I have to watch it in 20 min. chunks does not mean I wish the shows were 20 min. Keep in mind that data showing people watching 10 min. of old episodes is probably your loyal audience looking for insight on a specific pedal from an old show rather than new people watching a few minutes and moving on. I know the shows seem really long when you are editing and rendering them, but I have never felt a single episode was too long.
@@billgreen3629 seconded! Especially the part about going back and watching just 5-15 minutes of an old episode. Particularly "Dan and Mick's Pick'n Mix" shows I will go back and watch just a segment of if some new pedal you gents are using reminds me of when it first got a few minutes of love.
I have an 82 hardtail. I love my strat and I am also committed to buying my first Tele because of Dan's ethereal moving chords. I've learned so much from your show. Both of you guys are in my top 25 favorite players. Mark Knopfler is at the top. Can't thank you guys enough. Cheers.
No way! Chris, thank you so much!
I always love to see you guys reach for knobs, hardly touching let alone twirling the knobs and suppose you have another sound.Very amusing.Keep up the good work!
Have owned my strat for 13 years, have loved every moment and after this vid I finally know how it’s works.
This is the best episode of a guitar show I’ve ever seen. The oozing enthusiasm and love is just contagious. The follow up telecaster episode was equally amazing. Very cool.
Thank you M!!
@@ThatPedalShow most welcome!
This was easily the best episode in recent months. Learned a lot, thanks for sharing!
I really hope Dan does a video like this for Teles. Also I finally bit the bullet recently and bought a nice American made Strat off of Reverb after resisting for ages, and I ended up loving it so much.
Same as. Have for years had just LP’s. I remember trying out a Strat in a shop many years ago and found it weird and that left a lasting impression.
Forward wind to a couple of months ago and I fell in love with the 2 & 4 positions on a friend’s Strat and consequently bought a 20 year old American Strat. Never been happier and more inspired to play 😊💜🎸
@@riklionheart23 My big thing is that modern strats just all look and sound the same to me, so I got in to PRSs that are a bit more unique. Then I tried the wife’s MIM HSS Strat and loved it, started digging in to the gear of my guitar heroes and it got me hunting a Strat of my own. Found a 1995 American Standard in Electric Blue for a smoking deal and have been playing the everloving daylights out of it
@@amandahammond2691 we’ve seen the Stratolight 🤣
Enjoy!
I did the same about two years ago with the Yosemite pick ups and wow I never looked back! I wanted so hard to be a gibson fan but last night I had a realization that… IM A STRAT PLAYER. not looking back. 😅
I just bought myself the Fender Ultra Luxe it’s my first Strat and I love it so much! Thanks for this cool show, from Ottawa Canada!
So cool to have a platform like this were the guys can just go super deep on a topic they love! Super intriguing- keep up the great work!!
You guys have any idea how much some of us love you guys? You are like my best friend I never met.
Ah, cheers mate 🤓🙏
This episode is a treasure for Strat players.
I always loved the way Blackmore would play a phrase on the bridge pickup then flip to the kneck pickup and answer it
Brilliant episode guys. I'm a Les Paul guy, but thoroughly enjoyed this episode, very educational and entertaining to boot!
I learn a ton from you guys whenever you talk about guitars. Thanks!
Every now and then, it strikes me what good guitar players these fellas are. ❤
Just got a Strat yesterday and boy was I happy to see this.
Congrats! 🙌
One of the best shows on strats I've seen in a long time.Sweet and mean tones. Nice playing too. I say bring on part 2...👍
I know I commented a year ago, but this is still the best channel into jam ever! It gets me in the feels every time, lol! Thanks again for the inspiration Mick. 🍻
That Doyle Bramhall story about Stevie Ray is so cool, thanks for sharing guys, love Strats too.
Talking about most guitar heros playing Strats: I think it has a lot to do with a strat needing space in the mix. To me it just sounds so unique, it instant makes the band sound like its centered around the guitar. For me playing a tele for example, is more like a sideman thing, cause it sits in mix nicer, and is more capable of filling spots.
Mick's playing is phenomenal of course, but damn, Dan's Dan-isms from 30:21 are divine! :)
You’re too kind 🤓🙏
What does Mr Myagi say when he plays a strat with a tube screamer? ... Maxon, Max-off.
YES! Bravo!
🤡
Absolutely, I've got a Maxon vop9 that has been main od pedal for the better part of a decade. It's a great pedal with a little less of a mid hump than most tube screamers, a bit more transparent. I've tried many others but it's still my main od, I do use it with a Timmy every now and then.
3:33 - I can think of no episode you chaps have done where I have learned nothing new. Thank you for continuing to state the obvious such that we can be reminded of the bloomin' obvious. Sometimes, it's a massive help to open the mental horizons.
28:08 "Ohh that's lovely!". So Mick is an expert in relicing it seems! Love it
Fantastic information here, I’ve been playing strats for 25 years and thought I knew most things, but I learnt so much. The resonance with being tuned lower is a beautiful thing. I turned my first cheap strat into a kind of baritone by putting 13s and tuning to B and it feels very alive
I had a love/hate thing with strats for years until I really found the right one and found the pickups that fit it well. Oh, and tuning it down half a step made a huge difference for me as well.
NOW WE ARE TALKING! :P STRAT OVERDOSE BRING IN! (watching with my fiesta red on my lap)
Don’t spill anymore on your lap!
@@Ganache30 Just noticed I wrote "first red" by mistake 🙄.. FIESTA RED (my strat)
You just HAVE TO make a "Part 2", no other option. Such a great video! You can sense both knowldege and passion in every word you say and every note you play. Great watch! Thank you!
30:25. One of the best from Dan. I actually looped this over for a while today at the office... was glorious thank you Dan and Mick!!!
I keep one Strat with Memphis wiring. 3-way switch with one master volume and one master tone. The third knob blends in the middle pickup. It does a Tele-esque B&N sound and all three pickups on sound which I like a lot for slide. I also like standard 5-way wiring a lot also. It easier live.
Oh that sounds like a cool idea! I’d love to hear it?
Loved what Mick was playing in the beginning, that was cool.
Thank you!
Really good riffs and intuitive play
I’ve played Strats for a long time although recently I’ve been playing Gibson type guitars (335, Les Paul, SG etc.) quite a bit as well there’s something about a clean Strat in the in between positions with “too much reverb” and a little delay that just makes me happy. There’s something about that jangley, springy tone that’s just good for the soul sometimes.
I always jumper the middle pickup to the neck tone when I move it’s tone to the bridge. It lets you have a tone for all 3 pickups.
I really enjoy The Pedal Show and how Dan and Mick dig deep on the construction and all the parts of the guitar that are integral to their sound!
What attracted me to the Strat was its singing quality, even just borrowing one from my cousin and trying it out. It has a very vocal quality, I feel, it's hard to describe but you get a lot of it in this video, so thanks very much for that.
Relaxing and playing less aggressively, while improving your dynamic range options, also helps immensely technically. You get speed, you get fluidity, you avoid tensing up, you avoid injuries and whatnot. Playing aggressively should be a technique like any other that you put in your toolbox, while there should be a conscious and constant effort in trying to be relaxed so we stay there all the time when we grab the instrument.
Yeah nice, totally this.
You're not seeing this, but I thought it was worth mentioning: I'm watching this full of excitement with my surf green CS61 on my lap. Playing some pentatonic licks in between the lines.
Yessss!!!!!
Jeff Beck has said it all! On Strats…,,”the most expressive”…..I’ll take HIS point of view! I feel that strats cover more ground than any other genre. The middle position IMO is the most organic sounding
Another thing, you’ve doing JAZZ on a Strat!
Possibly my favorite episode yet. Thanks guys! I love Strats and I love Mick's enthusiasm for them. I learned a lot about the difference between floating and flat setting of the bridge. Very cool!
Feeling a bit under the weather today so I watched this again. I’m so glad I made it to the end, it was so funny with Mick going on forever about all the details 😂😂 Great show and I feel like I could watch it a third time, so much good Info.
It's price, it's that simple. American made standard Strat(now professional) are much cheaper to buy for a younger player than a Gibson LP, PRS, etc.
I haven't watched a tps show for a while, forgot how much I loved them
I'm in love of vintage style strats in exactly the same way. But you said lots of stuff I never thought of why. Awesome and deep knowledge about strats from the user perspective. Great great stuff. Cheers
Thank you Nuno!
I made it to the end! I got my first strat a few weeks ago (after playing only humbuckers for years) and this is SUPER DUPER USEFUL. Make another video to cover the middle pickup! I need more information and you guys are amazing at portraying it. Thank you for being awesome!
Loved it guys.. Could watch & listen to Mick chat n play strat's all day long, always entertaining, interesting & educational.. Just Awesome!
Hank marvin recalls the first strat he saw as looking like it came from outer space. It was the most modern thing out there for a lot of our heroes when they were starting out
I have been trying to adjust to the jarring modernity for fifty years. Imagine my horror when the guys I worked for started putting in the Floyd Rose tailpieces. I recently started in with light strings and the Classic Strat bridge. A whole new world. 😁
Mark Knopfler deserves mention as a strat player - and phenomenal guitarist of course! His early Dire Straits 2nd position sound got me interested in the electric guitar - and it had to be a strat. Oddly enough I ended up buying a tele first though... Thanks guys for another great episode!
I bought Communique on vinyl a few weeks back. Forgotten just how much Knopfler had gone in to my playing! Mick here.
This reminds me how important speakers are in getting Strats to sound Stratty. I was trying blue and green back AC15s in a shop, expecting the pricier blue to be way better. To my ear, it made the Strat so harsh I could hardly listen to it. I switched to the green back... instant Knopfler... bought it on the spot.
When a 11 year old me heard then saw Knopfler with his strat, that was it for me, then fast forward to Stevie, i was never going to own anything else lol, but i have tried other, but the strat is the one for me.
RWRP part: In question of position 2 and 4 sound, if the 3 pickups have the same specs (same resistances/inductance), the effect will be more prominent. But If you put different resistance/inductance pickups to compensate the volume because of the position of the pickups, the desired inbetween effect will be diminished. Dan can understand this cause we are talking about pickups IN PARALLEL (resistances/inductances in parallel). That's why blue doesn't have the same sound as Blackie.
My own experience when I entered in this rabbit's hole, thanks to Mike :)
This was amazing! I just got my 1st strat after years on a 335 and could def see myself falling into the hammering pit! Tried the volume/gain and that did it for me! Amazing stuff. This was a true masterclass. Thank you!
47:43 is proof that Dan and Mick are still boys at heart! I had to smile at this too. Subtly done without being over the top about it...
"Let the guitar do the work" this is reminding me of what Tim Pierce says about how to get a big guitar sound: crank it up loud and play quietly.
If there is more to be covered, "Let's Talk Strats, Part 2" would be welcome!
Perhaps including the topic of securing the bridge for those of us who love Strats but don't care for the trem.
@@TheHumbuckerboy just tighten the springs and it will set on the body like a hard tail. If you really want it to be stable put 5 springs on it and tighten them down.
@@erpringle thanks for the tip Randy, and also for your delicious potato treats!
HELL YEAH!!!
Definitely
Great episode! I’ve been playing Strats for 40 plus years. Maybe the attraction is the fact that they’re almost impossible to nail down. I’m constantly tweaking, wrenching, soldering, sanding, bashing and screaming!
I’ve come to the realization that a Strat is like a “Badass Hotrod”! Are you ever going to stop trying to make it faster? None of my Strats are perfectly dialed in; each of them fight me in their own way. I love my Les Paul’s, but they don’t argue with me like my Strats. They don’t demand my attention.
Great comment. I think that’s one of the reasons I enjoy Mick’s vlogs when he puts Blue on the workbench. I’ve owned LP’s and SG’s that never needed a single thing done to them - yet like you mention - There’s always something else to do to a Strat. For me, I think it’s because Strats are higher maintenance when it comes to tone. Anyone can click on a gain pedal and chug power chords but can anyone make a Strat sing?
Guy I have incredible news I have to tell everyone, I have finally lost my Ear V Card and it was with a Strat and a Vox AC30. For about 8 months I have been use the gear I started with which was Spark 40, Ibanez S570AH, and my acoustic. Trust me I love my Ibanez and it’s even comfier that a Strat, but it wasn’t hitting the sound I was looking for. But I picked up a Strat style guitar at my favorite guitar shop and I plugged it into the a AC30 and played the only song I know which was Lenny. My God everything bloomed and made me finally feel like I wasn’t just wasting my time. I had a smile on my face all day, and I am convinced that I’m going to get a good amp and a good Strat. Thanks for teaching me and everyone all the things you’ve learned in your lifetime guitar playing.
I just installed a Seymour Duncan SSL-5 (Perfect Tone version/clone) and it works great in the bridge! Gilmour was up to something good!
I’ve had countless pickups in my strat over the past 30+ years and out of all of them for me personally it’s down to 2 sets.
Lace golds. (Superb sustain and takes gain well plus great clean tones)
Bare knuckle irish tours.
Again superb pickups
This was a masterclass in Strats. Loved it
In the old days (mid '60s), decent sounding overdriven tones were hard to achieve, especially at lower volumes, which is why humbuckers and in particular Les Pauls became so popular.
Now with all the pedals and built-in OD fx it's just so easy that the ability to maintain clean & semi-clean "headroom" at higher volumes is actually a more valuable characteristic for a guitar.
Terrific episode! As always, it was fun to watch and I learned a lot. (I’m considering getting a Strat and now I know so much more.) Thanks to Mick for sharing information and wisdom learned from 33 years of Stratocastering.
I just picked up a rosewood '62 AVRI Strat from 1998. I will be watching this over and over again to learn how best to get the sounds I need from my Strat. I've tried in the past (several times) and failed, and ended up selling those Strats off. But this time I am determined to use it the way it needs to be used to get sounds I can bond with, rather than complaining about how I can't get a sound I like. More videos like this one please!
Agreed with Dan! Great playing and nice to see an at-ease Mick! It's nice to see any "state" of Mick - to be fair. Although I hope I don't regret writing that last part! :D
Hahahah! Hadn’t realised I was so uptight. Oh hang on, yes I had. :0)
@@ThatPedalShow Thank you Mick!! I'm equally enthusiastic about playing. Was for decades a Gibson/humbucker player, discovered and now LOVE Teles thanks to Dan and Danish Pete, and was up till 4am last night having a religious experience with a Strat I've had for decades and rarely played... I've been a high gain guy forever and you've shown me the gloriousness and beauty of clean. We shall do this till the last day. THANK YOU guys for a fantastic show and that enthusiasm 😎🤘
Okay, non- Strat guitar heroes - Slash, Jimmy Page, Billy Gibbons, Randy Rhoads, Gary Moore, Peter Green, Paul Kossoff, Albert, Freddie, BB, Angus Young, Zakk Wylde, Steve Clarke, Tony Iommi - plus my hero John Petrucci. Every electric I own right now has two humbuckers and one is semi-hollow (335) the other is a hollowbody (PRS). Having said that I do have a 57 Start being built so this episode very interesting in deed.
Many would argue that Clapton’s best is prior to the strat…
@@brandongarland4192 I would.
It’s a bit of a red herring, isn’t it? Many of the famous Strat players have sought and made spectacular music on other guitars as well. I’m always uncomfortable with definitive statements about this stuff, and was glad to see it was posed more as a question in the vid. I suspect an overwhelming reason may also be the looks. It was futuristic back in the day, highly redolent of contemporary commercial design, and has since become retro in in visual and cultural status. It was also first on a commercial scale in terms of a number of playability issues, so that has always kept it ahead of the pack.
Gary Moore put alot of time in on the red strat.
Zappa
How has no one brought up Rory Gallagher?! Monster of a strat player!
Here here. Especially the whole super boosted sound and controlled with the volume pot and dynamics
Absolutely! We didn’t mention Knopfler either. Terrible omissions!
@@ThatPedalShow ahahah you forgot a lot, and, so i need again to say : STEVE HILLAGE ....well, maybe you dont like him .-)
@@ThatPedalShow you also missed Jeff Beck.
Ahem guys.. JEFF BECK!!
Mick, you've made me fall in love with my strat all over again! Thank you!
Hoooray!
Hoooray!
Dan’s summation of this presentation said it all for me.
Thank you Mick for the myriad of possibilities and things worth thinking about.
I play both Strats and Teles and love them both. Thank you so much to you both as always.
As for Strat Trem Strings I love the low tension Raw Vintage Springs. They actually made a big difference, but you will probably have to use all five.
That’s what these are…..
Can you guys get Steve Hackett on the show? He’s very open about his gear & techniques and would most definitely have some amazing stories to share!
That would be epic
I struggled for forty years with .12-.54 ga strings and a hardtail, but when I got myself a non-ersatz amplifier I discovered that I could use the Strat tailpiece and light strings, with the horsepower doing all the work for me. I have determined that the Bass VI may be my instrument, and I am even starting to simulate some tones like the ones real musicians make. 🤘
Baritone guitars are great instruments in their own right! I’m thinking of getting a PRS SE-277 with the coil split so I can get low but still have strat similar in-between tones.
You guys are my heroes! This hasn’t been long enough. I would pay for a part 2!
Love the video as always guys! Really appreciate the time and effort you put into every video. I'd love to see a similar video on telecasters :)
Buddy Holly had said that the strat was great because it was louder. He played a p90 goldtop before it. Even though he’s technically wrong (the pickups are much weaker), the tweed amps he was playing would break up so easily with a Gibson. His amps could just keep getting louder with the strat without compressing and crunching up early
Less compression. Perennial problem with P90s. I know a few people who use Strats live over other guitars… where they’d use P90s and humbuckers for recording.
@@ThatPedalShow Try a P90 in the bridge position of a Strat as opposed to a humbucker. Of course check coil direction and polarity first but….for me it’s the best alternative to most Strat single coils in the bridge.
Some other great Strat players: Michael Karoli from Can and Eddie Hazel from Parliament-Funkadelic, and many of the early 90s alternative rock guitarsists such as Billy Corgan, John Frusciante, and Mike McCready.
The last two were both MASSIVE influences on me.
and Jeff Beck ? Santana was a Strat player too, Mark Knopfler , Steve Hillage, Steve Hunter,
Terje Rypdal. Especially if you live in Dan’s neck of the woods sonically. Check out “The Singles Collection” from the later 80s.
Maggot Brain was the first song that I actually studied. Eddie's playing is phenomenal.
Some of your best episodes are when you impart your extensive wisdom or get a guest on who does the same. It’s all about going on your own personal guitar journey, but learning from others experiences along the way. It is what makes TPS great. Fascinating and informative. Thank you
Mick's guitar is what got me to buy an American vintage 62 reissue. Got an obsidian blend wiring kit and some mojotone 59 clones on the way for it after having it for about 18 months. I hope I don't regret it!
I've enjoyed so many of the videos you guys have done. But this one goes to a whole new level.
For so long, I wondered how it was that a small number of guitarists were able to get such nice tone out of Fender guitars, whereas the majority get horrendous tone. Uli Roth was one of my favorites, with late 70's work in the Scorpios. There was so much intensity to his playing that I imagined him really digging in with the picking hand. Then in recent years I've seen video from late 70's Scorpions, and what grabbed my attention was his right hand. So relaxed. Barely touching the strings. Almost just lightly caressing them. And over since noticed it with a few others who have gotten nice tones. But maybe it was too small a sample size.
This video really nailed it for me. I don't know if the longer scale length makes them prone to the strings swinging out of control. Or what it is. But si often this metallic sound comes through that is grating. Sometimes it reminds me of when speaker cones are swinging so wildly that the voice coil starts slamming against the limit. And it creates a horrible sound.
Even Stevie Ray Vaughn, whose playing amazed me from when I first heard him playing with David Bowie, the tone on his albums was hard for me to take. Too much of what I dislike about the sound of Fender guitars. I don't know what exactly causes it, but it seems to plague so many of those who play that type of guitar.
Mick did an amazing job. I was bracing myself to deal with what I so often expect to hear from someone playing a Fender type guitar, but was pleasantly surprised. Well, until later into the video, and the picking became more aggressive, and some of those tones started breaking through.
I don't know if it's the woods used. Or the scale length. Or what. But shorter scale guitars, with woods such as mahogany (not maple, etc), pickups that don't use the magnet slugs that point at the strings, por what it is. The closest two guitars that come close to strat are ones that I built. Neither with a neck made from maple. One having a mahogany body, and the other having a chambered Koa body. They seem to escape part of it. But I did find myself using lighter strings and tuning down a half step, to minimize those effects. But then, they don't quite really fit the place of an actual strat guitar.
As I enter retirement, I'll be able to dive back into the world of guitar, and give more effort on something closer to an actual strat. This video will be quite helpful.
Thank you so much for making and posting it.