I think both had awesome sounds and although I am also a Tele person, I truly enjoyed both because both gave us the opportunity to hear Strats at their best.
Both sound great but my rule #1 of dialing in good tone on any guitar/amp is to do it without the ambience effects, if it sounds good to me and I don't miss it then tone is good to my ears and after you add reverb/delay it only gets better. Same applies to practicing stuff, if it sounds good without ambience and I don't miss it I'm ready to perform the piece to other people :D
I somehow have the exact same guitar. When I saw the pink strat, I was thinking: hold on, that is my strat. Even the relic is the exact same. Custom shop Journeyman 59 in aged shell pink.
That Fuse starting 11:12 was something powerfull. In the extreme area I'll pick that sound all day, but to a cleaner vibe i'm going with the classic sparkle strat sound. The thing with strats to me is that if I want some other vibe I can change it to get what I want, and I don't need to lose the playability that I love.
Actually I'm a Strat-guy (after a decade with LP-style). It was just Position 2 with the Clean Channel that hit me, when I played first time my actual Main guitar. It was "yup, just what I want". For more Midrange just go with Position 3 to 5, if necessary rolling back the Tone. The other way would be a Drivepedal with EQ (Bass and Treble at least, like the Valetone TubeEngine). Solves that problem too.
One of the reasons more players don't let the strat sparkle is the tendency to rely on midrange focus to cut through the rest of the band. If you have great bandmates who ware willing to work with you and not make a ton of noise (Dire Straits), you can let it sparkle and shine.
Let’s face it once you can play at a decent level it’s all about the performance at any one moment in time... I got say I prefer Kris... because he has become so comfortable and confident on RUclips. For me that confidence comes through in a little attitude together with facial expressions which just get me into his playing more. Guillaume is a fine playing but I prefer Kris’s “performance” style. Looking forward to the Tele player shootout next 👍
Mark Knopfler used 9s on his Strats as far as I know. Richard Thompson also usually uses light strings .Over the years I have heard various conflicting reports concerning the gauge that Jimi Hendrix used from very light strings to heavy strings. Jeff Beck supposedly uses heavy gauge strings.
My favorite Strat Tone (all time) is SRV on Rivera Paradise. I can get similar tones, with my 65 Princeton Reverb amp and my Suhr custom with Lollar Blonde Pickups, Nice job guys. Loved these tones.
I’m a shimmery Strat sound guy too ~ it’s the unique magical zingy-stringy voicing and character (including of single coil pick-ups) that makes a Strat the best sounding guitar, despite the dated design, and blocky cumbersome heel-neck joint. The modern high gain, stringy, single coil sound that I never see people re-create is the Yngwie Malmsteen type sound. There is a virtuoso neo-classical player named Cesario Filho (RUclips channel) that does it very well. Maybe you could cover getting that Yngwie type sound next time. Cheers~
@@LfunkeyA Throughout history, “timeless” has proven difficult to preserve, including when an ethos of innovation persists to change things. The most regressive (and subsequently modified) aspect of Strat design is the outline of the instrument, which was modeled after the outline of a traditional acoustic guitar in order to maintain continuity with familiar appearances, back in 1954. Single coils now require stacked/modified design to achieve quiet operation with high gain. One element of design retains permanent effect however, which is the ability to decouple transmitting excessive bass frequencies through the bolt-neck construction, and this of course is highly responsible for producing the characteristic tonality. Cheers~
Kris, Hello guys. Both of you play fantastic. I have always been a fan of Strats. I own 3. I don't find really any limitations on a strat whatsoever. Depending on your guitar set up. Kris you have excellent finger speed! I also own a Tele. It's phenomenal. A very flexible instrument for any genre. I did also like the glitter sea foam strat Kris. But definitely not your Tele..lol. Love the show as always and am already looking forward to the next one.
I resonate with the statement of Guillaume that the Strat can take your head off with all the sparkly top-end. First thing I did to my Strat was to put in a bride Humbucker (DiMarzio Chopper). Then it can do petty much everything.
It’s true that non strat players tend to love that sparkly stratty tone so when they grab a strat, that’s what they want to hear because they don’t hear that tone with their regular normal guitar. I want my strat to sound like a strat and my LP to sound like a LP. If I had to go anywhere with only one guitar, I’m screwed.
The pink strat is gorgeous and played with more variety so I could dig more the different styles. The sea foam green player seemed to be more of a virtuoso but in many ways all three samples sounded similar....there wasn't any dirt on the 3rd. Winner; pink strat. Impressive, both.😷
Sorry Guillaume, Kris comes out on top here in my opinion! As a die hard strat guy (and SRV fan of course), it’s all about that strat+amp tone for me, and just using the mid boosted sound for lead lines then switching back to amp sound I reckon!
I recommend using a fatter, higher output single coil in the bridge of a strat to take the edge off, but also to make sure you can handle a bit of overdrive. I also recommend stacked single coils like the DiMarzio Virtual Solo. I also dig the EMG SA Gilmour set. It's amazing and very versatile.
With all due respect to Kris, I prefer Guillaume's tone. I had a MIM strat once, I believe it had ceramic pickups, and I loved it's tone!! So warm and creamy!! Wish I still had it, but I was in college and needed to pay the rent.
I like the feel of a maple neck guitar more and if I play the Strat with a Clean amp the maple amp more too. But I love gainy Marshalls and that's what I play usually and there I like Rosewood Strats more. Because of that I think Guillaume wins!
Hello I am searching for al long time for that sound at 10:48 min. Please How can I het that sound? I there some way for a power budget then the pedals you have at thomann?
I very much like Guillaume's tone. Also, I'm fed up hearing people claim what a "real" Strat tone should be. Probably Jimi didn't listen to these people.
I agree with all points here. If you generally play other guitars, you'll pick up a strat for that sparkly, scooped tone. But if you play a strat for everything, you will find ways to make it sound the way you need it to. Personally, I really dig Kris' tones here, but I agree that it instantly makes you sound like every other strat player in the world. I'll give it to Guillaume for showing off the often overlooked versatility of the guitar (and for great tones, even if they weren't traditionally "stratty")
I can live with that. :) I still want a strat to sound like a strat (haha) but I did adore G's tone in the video. It's so interesting, how you like listening to different guitar tones, than what you want to hear when you play yourself. Weird, isn't it? cheers //Kris
Damn I love a exploding Fuzz with a strat or tele and overdrive!! I began watching this and as soon the Fuzz started and my god I had to go play my strat with fuzz!!!
Hey, check out this video from 1:40. Guillaume explains his strat pretty well. :) Cheers //Kris /Edit: forgot the link, haha! ruclips.net/video/c5ZDTRhskT8/видео.html
I'm thinking of running for office so...... You are both right and wrong. How'd I do? Points taken from my favorite guitar dudes on the RUclipss... I came for the point and stayed for the playing! **post edit** 14:06 Blonde sandwich?
Bravo Guillaume ! Sorry Kris ... but this time Guillaume wins ;) As a strat guy i enjoyed all your tones. That also shown how versatile a strat is ! However I would have loved to have some information about both strats (neck shape, pickups, etc). I have one with a big mapple neck, tomatillo PUs, and another one with a slimer Rosewood neck, FAT 50s PUS, and they sound very different.
Dedicated strat player, 10’s, slightly higher action because I play hard, slightly higher gain, HSS, thats from years of playing strats and getting MY ideal setup, I have other guitars but thats the one I want to hear and play pretty much every time, it doesn’t sound like any of my heroes, it sounds like how I like it for me but still sounds like a strat.
Srv wasnt cranking the midrange he left it on about five or so and he wasnt even using texas specials in his main guitar it was just stock pickups and he also had his pickups set pretty low and the action was pretty high because he was using huge frets so his tone was super sparkly. And for leads he would just kick on a tubescreamer for volume and to kinda fatten his tone
That's true, he was using his stock old strat. But (as far as I know) his pickups have more output and mids than usual, that's what the texas special pickups are trying to emulate. He also cranked his amps WAY UP and that always gives a lot of mids. Since most of use can't afford to do that, we have other ways of pushing the mids: pedals, different eq on the amp, etc. If you listen to his recordings, there's a lot of chime and midrange going on. And that's the beauty of it. :) //Kris
@@ThomannsGuitarsBasses fender opened his guitar up and his pickups read normal output and yeah the way he was running the amp was about 90 percent of his tone. And sorry if i sounded like a smart ass, good job on the vid!
First off, killer playing and tones by both ! Also, as a fellow frenchie, I'm impressed by how much Guillaume's english accent has improved over the years, which isn't easy for us usually... To get back to the original topic, as a Blackmore, YJM, early 80s Gary Moore and Norum fan I'd say there's something about SSS Strats in a rock/hard rock/metal context that is totally unique and set you instantly apart from the classic LP/Marshall combo (however cool that setup sounds). Definitely sounds more pokey and kinda thinner, but equally cool IMHO. Plug those Strats into an overdrive and then into that SV20H that's sitting between you, and tell me that's not the Tone Of The Gods ! Takes more control and a more agressive playing for sure (as Guillaume points out) and actually using the tone controls on the guitar (having a tone control on the bridge pickup helps quite a bit here), but it's an awesome sound. Embrace that thing and make it scream ! And hey, the Strat work for Gilmour, soooo...
This videos are fun as hell to watch and you can tell they are fun to record too. I think its mandatory for you guys to do the opposite now and use teles so Guillaume can clap back at Kris about Strats being better. Cheers!
Thanks a lot! Yeah it was a lot of fun to make, like pretty much every video I get to make with my buddy G. And totally, we HAVE to make that Tele challenge. :) //Kris
I liked Kirs's Sounds more but im on Guillaumes side. The Strat is the best fucking guitar ever made. You totally have to fight it and this is so wonderful.
Great video both of you sounded great but i preffered Guillauemes sound the best. Yes sometimes you want the sparkle sound but often its to much and the sweetnes goes away. I give this to Guillaume for his intro wow
Got to 3:13 and already Kris wins. I’m a strat guy and I am tired of how much honk machine some guys do with their strats. For SRV, it was fine he invented it. But the others, as good as they all are, based their tones of that and lose the character of the strat.
Sorry Guillaume, but I love the Strat for that "vintage" tone. Maybe is it due to may musical reference points (and my age of 51). I have a Strat with Fat 50's PU, and they sound so great to me, especially the neck PU ! The tone of Guillaume is too "modern" in a way, and the Strat characteric sound tends to vanish...
Sorry Guys, hate to say this but I don`t like both Strat-Tones at all. They both sound absolutely digital, sterile and lacking all of the woody warmth a good strat is able to deliver through a good Vintage Tube Amp. Sure, Tone is individual taste, but that was just some effect-overloaded digitalized Simulation of a tone that someone said it`s a good strat tone but it really is not. I like Kris, but how could he think it sounded well???
Truth about the Mid range and Strats. Strat+Vintage Marshall, Tele+Fender Blues Deluxe, LesPaul+80's Marshall. If you can pair the right amp to the guitar, it fills in the "blanks".
First 2 go to Guillaume last sound goes to Kris. I was a strat guy for a long time mainly because that's all I had but my main do all guitar now is a tele type I built. I still love the strat for doing the fun iconic strat stuff though
I am also 80% of the time a strat player but I also almost never use second pickup positions for the sparkle sound... I just hate it for some reason... Either the neck or bridge pickup is in use, I know maybe a tele should fit me better... not really, I have a tele as well but still like the strat better... There is just something about the strat...
Yes I don't care for the 2 and 4 position either... For me it's either neck or bridge most of the time, but I am intrigued by the middle every now and then when I'm dinking around. Has a woody Hendrix sound from his Blues record. In fact, my strat is wired for only 3 positions anyway. But I've had others with the 5 way...
I like both but Guillaume's more :) Even if I tend to play more the sparkly sound myself (isn't that weird?). And a Strat (or any single coil guitar) with loads of mid range and a humbucker guitar are totally different beasts. You'll never play them the same way... ...but maybe it's only because I'm a single coil guy :)
You missed the comparison using a metal zone pushing a Line 6 spider on Insane Channel
Ohh damn! How could we forget about that. 🤦♂️😅
Great sounds, guys. The green one alone sounds awesome, it's problem is the pink one. That one sounds phenomenal!
I would need both types but I think that I would use the tones of the pink guitar more often .
Let's get this party stratted.
The winner is ... the strat. It does both your tones. There are no losers in this shootout.
I think both had awesome sounds and although I am also a Tele person, I truly enjoyed both because both gave us the opportunity to hear Strats at their best.
Guillaume''s "HOW DARE YOU!" was haunting.
What an intro. I've never heard Guillaume like that.
This will be a great video.
I was literally afraid there for a second. haha! //Kris
Both sound great but my rule #1 of dialing in good tone on any guitar/amp is to do it without the ambience effects, if it sounds good to me and I don't miss it then tone is good to my ears and after you add reverb/delay it only gets better. Same applies to practicing stuff, if it sounds good without ambience and I don't miss it I'm ready to perform the piece to other people :D
I would want both ends of strat tones, the sparkly and the mid boosted side!
Absolutely
Sweeeeet midrange all the way up!
Also, literally can't wait for the Tele one.
Awww you
Watching this video, my first thought was "Right, that's why I bought a Volante!". Great tones and great players as usual!
That pink shell finish is insane.
I somehow have the exact same guitar. When I saw the pink strat, I was thinking: hold on, that is my strat. Even the relic is the exact same. Custom shop Journeyman 59 in aged shell pink.
In my opinion...
Clean: Kris
Crunchy: Even
Dirty: Guillaume
But I love both sounds and thoughts behind these tones. Great and fun video, guys.
That Fuse starting 11:12 was something powerfull. In the extreme area I'll pick that sound all day, but to a cleaner vibe i'm going with the classic sparkle strat sound.
The thing with strats to me is that if I want some other vibe I can change it to get what I want, and I don't need to lose the playability that I love.
Actually I'm a Strat-guy (after a decade with LP-style). It was just Position 2 with the Clean Channel that hit me, when I played first time my actual Main guitar. It was "yup, just what I want". For more Midrange just go with Position 3 to 5, if necessary rolling back the Tone. The other way would be a Drivepedal with EQ (Bass and Treble at least, like the Valetone TubeEngine). Solves that problem too.
I like the way this is framed. What is more versatile and sounds better. A strat, or a strat. The answer is clear.
For me Guillaume is definetely the best strat player with CRAZY sound! Love it )))
The banter is on point👌
I like the jingle jangle of the Strat and the green one portrayed that sound more to me.
I love Both sound so much ! really looking forward the video about Telecaster ! :) great job guys as usual
just my 5cents ... you both played great and from my pov there wasn't a "better" or "worse" sound ...#enjoyyoursound
I loved Guillaume's fuzz.
One of the reasons more players don't let the strat sparkle is the tendency to rely on midrange focus to cut through the rest of the band. If you have great bandmates who ware willing to work with you and not make a ton of noise (Dire Straits), you can let it sparkle and shine.
You Guys are Awesome!! Thanks
Let’s face it once you can play at a decent level it’s all about the performance at any one moment in time... I got say I prefer Kris... because he has become so comfortable and confident on RUclips. For me that confidence comes through in a little attitude together with facial expressions which just get me into his playing more. Guillaume is a fine playing but I prefer Kris’s “performance” style. Looking forward to the Tele player shootout next 👍
Mark Knopfler used 9s on his Strats as far as I know. Richard Thompson also usually uses light strings .Over the years I have heard various conflicting reports concerning the gauge that Jimi Hendrix used from very light strings to heavy strings. Jeff Beck supposedly uses heavy gauge strings.
Guillaume dropped the mic on the clean tones!!! And thanks guys for the fun video, can't wait for the tele one :-)
My favorite Strat Tone (all time) is SRV on Rivera Paradise. I can get similar tones, with my 65 Princeton Reverb amp and my Suhr custom with Lollar Blonde Pickups, Nice job guys. Loved these tones.
Both sounded great, but for my personal I’m with Kris. My main axe is a PRS if I take the Strat I want that typical Strat sound.
I’m a shimmery Strat sound guy too ~ it’s the unique magical zingy-stringy voicing and character (including of single coil pick-ups) that makes a Strat the best sounding guitar, despite the dated design, and blocky cumbersome heel-neck joint. The modern high gain, stringy, single coil sound that I never see people re-create is the Yngwie Malmsteen type sound. There is a virtuoso neo-classical player named Cesario Filho (RUclips channel) that does it very well. Maybe you could cover getting that Yngwie type sound next time. Cheers~
That would be a good one. Tone-wise he's in my top 5 best and most recognizable tones for any electrics.
dated design? nah, that's one of the timeless aspects of the instrument.
@@LfunkeyA Throughout history, “timeless” has proven difficult to preserve, including when an ethos of innovation persists to change things. The most regressive (and subsequently modified) aspect of Strat design is the outline of the instrument, which was modeled after the outline of a traditional acoustic guitar in order to maintain continuity with familiar appearances, back in 1954. Single coils now require stacked/modified design to achieve quiet operation with high gain. One element of design retains permanent effect however, which is the ability to decouple transmitting excessive bass frequencies through the bolt-neck construction, and this of course is highly responsible for producing the characteristic tonality. Cheers~
Kris' clean sound and Guillaume's dirty sound. Best of both worlds.
The Hoof with the octave ! Wow 🤩
Kris,
Hello guys. Both of you play fantastic. I have always been a fan of Strats. I own 3. I don't find really any limitations on a strat whatsoever. Depending on your guitar set up. Kris you have excellent finger speed! I also own a Tele. It's phenomenal. A very flexible instrument for any genre. I did also like the glitter sea foam strat Kris. But definitely not your Tele..lol. Love the show as always and am already looking forward to the next one.
13:26 “As soon as it’s not old school blues, funk….” But why would you ever want to do that? 😂
I resonate with the statement of Guillaume that the Strat can take your head off with all the sparkly top-end. First thing I did to my Strat was to put in a bride Humbucker (DiMarzio Chopper). Then it can do petty much everything.
Guillaume's high gain tones were absolutely filthy❤
It’s true that non strat players tend to love that sparkly stratty tone so when they grab a strat, that’s what they want to hear because they don’t hear that tone with their regular normal guitar.
I want my strat to sound like a strat and my LP to sound like a LP. If I had to go anywhere with only one guitar, I’m screwed.
Greetings!
Thanks for the wonderful sharing!
🤘🏻ROCK ON!!🤘🏻
Both sounded great , but my vote goes for the Sparkle green team 😎👍
Guillaume had the best lead Strat tone and crunch tone!
Guillaume playing with the octave was off the hook! Wow... crazy but I love it!
Excellent video.
You guys rock!
The pink strat is gorgeous and played with more variety so I could dig more the different styles. The sea foam green player seemed to be more of a virtuoso but in many ways all three samples sounded similar....there wasn't any dirt on the 3rd. Winner; pink strat. Impressive, both.😷
Sorry Guillaume, Kris comes out on top here in my opinion! As a die hard strat guy (and SRV fan of course), it’s all about that strat+amp tone for me, and just using the mid boosted sound for lead lines then switching back to amp sound I reckon!
Excellent video. I love both sounds and want a strat that can do all those sounds!
I agree with Guillaume about the strat setup. Just a little of tumnus magic to even the pickups on my HSS without losing the single coil sound.
It is all nice, lovely tones and quality playing.
11:14 that's the most decent stoner-rock tone I heard in a long time. I must reproduce that. Is the Boss also on or it's only the earthquake pedal?
Both sound amazing!
I recommend using a fatter, higher output single coil in the bridge of a strat to take the edge off, but also to make sure you can handle a bit of overdrive. I also recommend stacked single coils like the DiMarzio Virtual Solo. I also dig the EMG SA Gilmour set. It's amazing and very versatile.
DiMarzio Virtual Solo is exactly what I have in the bridge, combined with True Velvet neck and middle. Sounds creamy as hell!
I didn’t like that much both nasty tones.... but Kris won in my opinion.
Cheers guys and keep up like that!
I always enjoy your videos!
Thanks a lot Diego, we appreciate your comments! :) //Kris
Missed a trick for round 3 should of been a miku.
Looking forward to seeing a tele and les paul version as this. Great vid
I love both!!
With all due respect to Kris, I prefer Guillaume's tone. I had a MIM strat once, I believe it had ceramic pickups, and I loved it's tone!! So warm and creamy!! Wish I still had it, but I was in college and needed to pay the rent.
I like the feel of a maple neck guitar more and if I play the Strat with a Clean amp the maple amp more too. But I love gainy Marshalls and that's what I play usually and there I like Rosewood Strats more. Because of that I think Guillaume wins!
Hello I am searching for al long time for that sound at 10:48 min. Please How can I het that sound? I there some way for a power budget then the pedals you have at thomann?
Love the fuzz tone and playing Guillaume! Who says strats can't do HEAVY!?
Great video guys. Honestly my favourite part is when you jam together. You should start a band
Felicitaciones, gran demostración y muy amena conversación. Gracias por este video. Saludos desde Chile!!!
Green one!!!
I very much like Guillaume's tone. Also, I'm fed up hearing people claim what a "real" Strat tone should be. Probably Jimi didn't listen to these people.
I agree with all points here. If you generally play other guitars, you'll pick up a strat for that sparkly, scooped tone. But if you play a strat for everything, you will find ways to make it sound the way you need it to.
Personally, I really dig Kris' tones here, but I agree that it instantly makes you sound like every other strat player in the world. I'll give it to Guillaume for showing off the often overlooked versatility of the guitar (and for great tones, even if they weren't traditionally "stratty")
I can live with that. :) I still want a strat to sound like a strat (haha) but I did adore G's tone in the video. It's so interesting, how you like listening to different guitar tones, than what you want to hear when you play yourself. Weird, isn't it? cheers //Kris
Damn I love a exploding Fuzz with a strat or tele and overdrive!! I began watching this and as soon the Fuzz started and my god I had to go play my strat with fuzz!!!
I lie somewhere in the middle! Great video!
What is the shell pink strat for a particular Fender model / series ? 🤔 Which PUs? Spec Sheets available?
Hey, check out this video from 1:40. Guillaume explains his strat pretty well. :) Cheers //Kris
/Edit: forgot the link, haha! ruclips.net/video/c5ZDTRhskT8/видео.html
Man Guillaume's fuzz sound reminded me a lot of Reignwolf's sound. I need to look into those pedals I guess
Both sounded GREAT 😜
Matthew scott is probably my favourite strat player!
I liked both. More towards the sparkle side, probably.
Great video
I'm thinking of running for office so...... You are both right and wrong. How'd I do? Points taken from my favorite guitar dudes on the RUclipss... I came for the point and stayed for the playing!
**post edit**
14:06
Blonde sandwich?
Thanks to this video, I finally know how to pronounce Guillaume
Bravo Guillaume !
Sorry Kris ... but this time Guillaume wins ;)
As a strat guy i enjoyed all your tones. That also shown how versatile a strat is !
However I would have loved to have some information about both strats (neck shape, pickups, etc). I have one with a big mapple neck, tomatillo PUs, and another one with a slimer Rosewood neck, FAT 50s PUS, and they sound very different.
Strats=sparkly glass tone. That's my favourite. I think strats with maple necks has more of that sparkly top end. Am I totally wrong?
A little bit. Rosewood usually brings in more top end, but also other frequencies so perhaps it is less noticeable.
Dedicated strat player, 10’s, slightly higher action because I play hard, slightly higher gain, HSS, thats from years of playing strats and getting MY ideal setup, I have other guitars but thats the one I want to hear and play pretty much every time, it doesn’t sound like any of my heroes, it sounds like how I like it for me but still sounds like a strat.
Srv wasnt cranking the midrange he left it on about five or so and he wasnt even using texas specials in his main guitar it was just stock pickups and he also had his pickups set pretty low and the action was pretty high because he was using huge frets so his tone was super sparkly. And for leads he would just kick on a tubescreamer for volume and to kinda fatten his tone
That's true, he was using his stock old strat. But (as far as I know) his pickups have more output and mids than usual, that's what the texas special pickups are trying to emulate. He also cranked his amps WAY UP and that always gives a lot of mids. Since most of use can't afford to do that, we have other ways of pushing the mids: pedals, different eq on the amp, etc. If you listen to his recordings, there's a lot of chime and midrange going on. And that's the beauty of it. :) //Kris
@@ThomannsGuitarsBasses fender opened his guitar up and his pickups read normal output and yeah the way he was running the amp was about 90 percent of his tone. And sorry if i sounded like a smart ass, good job on the vid!
i'm usually not a fan of sparkly guitars, but dammit that green strat is 🔥
It's on fire, right? On green and sparkly fire. :) //Kris
What Fender model was Guillaume playing?
Great video, thanks, grettings from Perú!, Gracias!
First off, killer playing and tones by both ! Also, as a fellow frenchie, I'm impressed by how much Guillaume's english accent has improved over the years, which isn't easy for us usually...
To get back to the original topic, as a Blackmore, YJM, early 80s Gary Moore and Norum fan I'd say there's something about SSS Strats in a rock/hard rock/metal context that is totally unique and set you instantly apart from the classic LP/Marshall combo (however cool that setup sounds). Definitely sounds more pokey and kinda thinner, but equally cool IMHO.
Plug those Strats into an overdrive and then into that SV20H that's sitting between you, and tell me that's not the Tone Of The Gods ! Takes more control and a more agressive playing for sure (as Guillaume points out) and actually using the tone controls on the guitar (having a tone control on the bridge pickup helps quite a bit here), but it's an awesome sound. Embrace that thing and make it scream !
And hey, the Strat work for Gilmour, soooo...
This videos are fun as hell to watch and you can tell they are fun to record too. I think its mandatory for you guys to do the opposite now and use teles so Guillaume can clap back at Kris about Strats being better. Cheers!
Thanks a lot! Yeah it was a lot of fun to make, like pretty much every video I get to make with my buddy G. And totally, we HAVE to make that Tele challenge. :) //Kris
I liked Kirs's Sounds more but im on Guillaumes side. The Strat is the best fucking guitar ever made. You totally have to fight it and this is so wonderful.
For me...the best strat sound win the best tele sound ... teh best strat sound has something magic that the best tele sound doesn't has...
What Brand is that black P90 Les Paul Type guitar with Bigsby in the back?
Hey, that's Guillaume's modified Epiphone Les Paul. It's really pretty, isn't it? //Kris
Great video both of you sounded great but i preffered Guillauemes sound the best. Yes sometimes you want the sparkle sound but often its to much and the sweetnes goes away. I give this to Guillaume for his intro wow
Thank you so much Håkan, appreciate it! //G
Got to 3:13 and already Kris wins. I’m a strat guy and I am tired of how much honk machine some guys do with their strats. For SRV, it was fine he invented it. But the others, as good as they all are, based their tones of that and lose the character of the strat.
Habt ihr Tipps für die perfekte Strat/Singlecloil/Schaltung? Den Singlecoil am Steg mit an das Tonepoti vom Mittleren? Treblebleed ja oder nein?
Both sounded great, just a demo how versatile a strat is... and no, you don't have to fight it when the setup is right.
Sorry Guillaume, but I love the Strat for that "vintage" tone. Maybe is it due to may musical reference points (and my age of 51). I have a Strat with Fat 50's PU, and they sound so great to me, especially the neck PU ! The tone of Guillaume is too "modern" in a way, and the Strat characteric sound tends to vanish...
Sorry Guys, hate to say this but I don`t like both Strat-Tones at all. They both sound absolutely digital, sterile and lacking all of the woody warmth a good strat is able to deliver through a good Vintage Tube Amp. Sure, Tone is individual taste, but that was just some effect-overloaded digitalized Simulation of a tone that someone said it`s a good strat tone but it really is not. I like Kris, but how could he think it sounded well???
Truth about the Mid range and Strats. Strat+Vintage Marshall, Tele+Fender Blues Deluxe, LesPaul+80's Marshall. If you can pair the right amp to the guitar, it fills in the "blanks".
What model is that pink strat?
the cleanish sound was pretty even imo, dirt and fuzz goes to Kris. Sorry Guillame :)
whoop whoop, thanks a lot Ole!! :) //Kris
I liked em both but favored the green one best
Me too. haha! //Kris
Next, have Guillaume show YOU how to get a proper Tele tone. Shots fired! 😆
Uhhhh I am SO ready for that video. Haha! //Kris
Best strat tone ever > David Gilmour
First 2 go to Guillaume last sound goes to Kris. I was a strat guy for a long time mainly because that's all I had but my main do all guitar now is a tele type I built. I still love the strat for doing the fun iconic strat stuff though
I am also 80% of the time a strat player but I also almost never use second pickup positions for the sparkle sound... I just hate it for some reason... Either the neck or bridge pickup is in use, I know maybe a tele should fit me better... not really, I have a tele as well but still like the strat better... There is just something about the strat...
Yes I don't care for the 2 and 4 position either... For me it's either neck or bridge most of the time, but I am intrigued by the middle every now and then when I'm dinking around. Has a woody Hendrix sound from his Blues record. In fact, my strat is wired for only 3 positions anyway. But I've had others with the 5 way...
Actually quite informative, learned why I love the Strat & also hate it...!
Just get a telecaster !
I like both but Guillaume's more :)
Even if I tend to play more the sparkly sound myself (isn't that weird?).
And a Strat (or any single coil guitar) with loads of mid range and a humbucker guitar are totally different beasts. You'll never play them the same way...
...but maybe it's only because I'm a single coil guy :)