CAN A FENDER AMERICAN ULTRA LUXE STRATOCASTER DO METAL?! 

Yeah I agree I just got a baritone 7 string with low output Paf pickups and it sounds MEAN!

The metal bands from the 80's were using low to medium output humbuckers for that old-school crunchy metal tone and they sounded great. Nowadays, there exist humbuckers which have more low-end but lack clarity & midranges.

@@elefsidi the dimarzio super distortion is from 1972, gibson dirty fingers is also from the 70's, duncan jb is from 1976, those pickups are high output and were used alot back then.

It has more to do with the speaker and less the pickups. But agreed any guitar can do metal

@@alanr9634 Well, general rule is a bridge humbucker as the barring entry for rock and metal music.

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Hey thanks so much for stopping in :) I’m very lucky to be able to do what I love so I am always smiling

Nazgûl is probably the best pickup I’ve ever used. Have one in my ESP Alexi Scythe.

You can do it!

In the words of Jimmy Page, "Do or do not, there is no try". Maybe that was Ozzy? I think your channel idea is rad @Homi D. Clown.

How's that going for you? I ordered the same guitar in sunburst and am anxiously awaiting its arrival. I'm getting the feeling they went with a lower output humbucker to better match the single coils, but I figure if I'm running through an audio interface and software sims, the lower output probably won't matter. Thoughts?

Yeah not that it matters, good for him. But I thought he got the Player instead? Maybe I missed something.

He did say he might return the player plus and pick up the ultra lux. He must've done it haha.

@@jonnybroomhead Lol guess so!

Yeah the Enforcer is one of the worst humbuckers I've played. I have no idea what they were even going for on that one.

It’s a nice little touch to keep the classic Stratocaster look. Especially with such drastic changes! I’ve been in love with this guitar since it was announced. I bought the Final Fantasy XIV Stratocaster so I’ll wait a year or two before buying this one. 🤘🏻

Most metal guitar have 500k pots because they come with humbuckers. When you use 500k pot it allows more high end come through. The opposite is used for single coils, use 250k pots to tame the high end. They put 250k pots in HSS Fender is because they are predominantly a brighter sounding brand, so they keep there single coils sounding like single coils and they can wind a brighter humbucker to match

@@spudvader well not exactly. There’s much more to it than that, “brighter” doesn’t describe the relationship between 250k pots and 500k. If you’ve ever played a fender HSS or squier hss, you will notice the humbucker still sounds closer to a single coil than it does a high output humbucker in an ibanez or jackson. They a have a quacky sounding quality that is the staple of fender guitars. That is solely due to the 250k pots. If you wanted a fender to do metal, 500k pots are pretty essential. For example, if you took the most scooped, hottest, muddiest sounding pickup, like a Duncan invader, and put it directly into a strat, the guitar will still retain the quacky strat sound, just with a dirtier pickup. Potentiometers are the reason for that. They don’t just control the “brightness” of a guitar, but have completely different frequency qualities. On the other hand, 500k pots will give more low end and mids to a single coil, actually warming it up and making it sound fuller, which is bad if you want the quacky strat sound. I know a lot of people on the internet always associate 500k pots as being “brighter”, but that’s only a small fraction of the truth. Potentiometers have the most direct effect on your guitars tonal quality, in some cases even more than the pickup itself.

@@spudvader Independence is right. I bought new pots for my jackson, and accidentally ordered 250k push pull tone pot instead of a 500k. Put it in, and the guitar suddenly got that twang like a fender. I thought it was the pickups, turns out it was the tone pot. Once I put the 500k pot in, it went to sounding brutal. The pot didn’t make guitar brighter, it sounded fatter and even warmer with the 500k

​@@meetloaf5334 A pot is a variable resistor, a 500k pot lets through more high end frequencies than a 250k pot. It's not my opinion, it's a fact. If you had a DPDT switch aka a push-pull pot, I'm assuming that you have a splittable pickup so there other reasons you had your experience.

@@IndependenceGuitar I'm going to ignore that you said a pot has more effect on an electric guitar than the pickups because that is just plain retarded. As for a pot, you are preaching information that isn't true. A pot or potentiometer is a variable resistor. Straight from Fralin pickups website - " The pot itself dampens high frequencies from your pickups’ signal. It does this by adding a short across your pickup’s signal. Lower resistance pots, like 250K, will dampen more high frequencies off of your signal than a 500K pot will. If you were to connect your pickups directly to the output jack, you would notice your tone is louder and brighter. Most instrument manufacturers pick the pot value that makes the instrument sound the best. " I think they know more about guitar electronics than yourself and myself for that matter. You are arguing against science, you are more than welcome to think what you want but you aren't correct.

Ok i trust you

Dude that volume knob is the reason I cannot play a strat....it sucks cuz they’re great guitars!!!!

@@eddiejr540 it’s far from a great guitar if ya can’t play it lol

BTW.. I really love Charvel!!!

I like the output on the back pickup.. But I gotta agree with you... Tiny bit lower output then a metal bridge pickup. Its more midrangey as well. im a blues nerd so it's perfect for me.. but yeah.. If I were busting out Pantera.. I might go with a more metal bridge pickup.

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@@tommilitello198 thanks!

@@Dillion203 thank you!

Who?

@@xanderraymondcharles The Mighty Riff Man from the band Obituary. He is a lifelong Fender guy.