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A brief history of the Fender Stratocaster and how it's been used to create rock and metal music. We crank up the amps & put it to work on a metal mix!
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@STE4LYOURFACE 7 лет назад

I play metal with a uke

@stephen_mp4 4 года назад

Legend

@ravendemo4980 3 года назад

now that’s too much

@reni_ayv 3 года назад

Same tbh

@Breaker197 3 года назад

Only traditionally constructed ukeleles of mammoth bone are trve kvlt

@cockandballs4592 3 года назад

LOLL

@fahdchoudry7763 7 лет назад

Can you play metal with a nylon string classical acoustic guitar?

@VoxLott 7 лет назад

fahd s lol ye

@endlessminder 7 лет назад

Scallon can.

@gonzadiazsola 7 лет назад

endlessminder he can do anything

@apileofbeans 7 лет назад

Can you play metal with a some paper clips and a subway coupon?

@ap5965 7 лет назад

When you tune it down it sounds apocalyptic

@gelatinous6915 2 года назад

Absolutely you can! Even without a humbucker. Set the switch to position four, turn the tone down, and use a darker amp w/ the treble turned down. You get a bright but still mid-present sound that works really really good at slightly lower gain, it gets you the good parts of hi-gain without the shrill hi-treble or buzzy tones that come with driving guitars too hard.

@then00brathalos 2 года назад

another method is using the neck pickup, tone it to mid or mid low (5-3) depending on the occasion, the tone is really thick

@phatnana2379 2 года назад

@Gelatinous I got a Hot Rails in the bridge position of my '91 American Strat Plus and it's GRUESOME! I put new 500k Pots in it, keep the toggle all the way down to just the bridge pick-up, tone-knob at about 50%, it's set up for and stays in C#-Standard, and plays out a cheap-ass, solid-state Marshall MG100-HCFX... I play it on the Clean channel and get my distortion with a TC Electronics Dark Matter (Gain knob dimed, level: 12:00, Bass: 4:00, Treble: 1:00, Voice: Up) paired with a Tube Screamer Mini (Tone: 9:00, Level: 10:00, Gain: 3:00). ISP Decimator is an absolute necessity ethics set up tho.. My band plays a mix of Grind, Hardcore, Black Metal, Power-Violence, and Punk so when I'm setting up at a show, people look at me like "Wtf? Is this dude for real?" But... NO JOKE, after EVERY show, multiple people approach me with praises on how crushing my rig sounds and questions about wtf is going on with "that" Strat lol!! I don't mean to sound like a pretentious douchebag, it's just something I'm super proud of! Ive owned LTD and Ibanez 6/7-strings and Jacksons with active EMGs but my Strat STILL beats them tone-wise! The playability of Strats is just unmatched (for me anyway)! It's a different playability than the LTDs or Jacksons and, when set up for metal, that Strat playability lends itself to a WHOLE lot of unique sounds not often heard in such "extreme" music! * Sorry for writing a book haha but I can gush about tone all day!

@gelatinous6915 2 года назад

@@phatnana2379 I've said it before and I'll say it again. 99 percent of the sound in a guitar comes from the pickup.

@gelatinous6915 2 года назад

@@then00brathalos Position four on the switch blends the middle and neck pickups, which can create humbucker-style noise reduction. Neck-only can sound thicker, but noisier.

@ziggy4465 2 года назад

I have a 1987 American Standard (pictured to the left) and I play metal all the time with the original single coils. I also use the AmpliTube app now to get a more aggressive sound. I used to use Boss pedals through a Marshall 5205 (12W solid state w/ spring reverb) and could still get a very heavy sound. I love bands like Metallica, Megadeth, Pantera, and Testament and can get their sounds with this set up. My strings are also 11-49s, so that probably adds to the heaviness.🤘🏻

@AnthonyNelsonPhoto 6 лет назад

I recorded my band's first EP with a Stratocaster and a Telecaster! The bite they have really cuts through the mix and lets the bass be REAL darn heavy in the mix.

@psteeg3551 7 лет назад

0:22 loaded with hamburgers? I want that guitar

@thatchman9605 6 лет назад

psteeg Humbuckers

@slidey1000 6 лет назад

I am going to refer to all humbuckers as hamburgers from now on.

@Soldier1287 5 лет назад

hamberkers

@owenkorando9595 5 лет назад

Yes

@tonyk_4136 5 лет назад

Thatchman r/woosh

@2Ursos1 8 лет назад

Iron maiden...the end. close video.

@papatk8323 8 лет назад

they use active,pickups.

@ahmadmoussa3771 8 лет назад

lol first thing that came to mind as well

@jakedavis6943 8 лет назад

Jeff from slayer used em shortly, motorhead early on had a couple, Jake E Lee, and even Chris Holmes used em, up until people wanted the different shapes like Vs, everyone had strats/les pauls.

@david55509 8 лет назад

exodus, enougth said

@maxjbg 8 лет назад

Thank you!

@michaelgraham9774 7 лет назад

If you are hating just because of his shirt, you are clearly new to this channel.

@SpectreSoundStudios 7 лет назад

+Michael Graham :)

@michaelgraham9774 7 лет назад

SpectreSoundStudios

@Dhakadice 7 лет назад

...and clearly new to bass players as well. ;)

@BratislavMetulski 5 лет назад

I am a bass player making bass player jokes 24/7. Whats the problem

@stereotypicalemousername9507 5 лет назад

Färt Blu as a bass player myself I agree with his shirt

@custer3176 5 лет назад

An ”elite” metalhead: I think you cant use a strat in metal Jim root: Hold my Jazzmaster

@davidepannone6021 5 лет назад

Which uses humbuckers and actives too, for that matter lmao. Try to play slipknot on a STOCK s s s strat and hear how shit you sound lmao

@custer3176 5 лет назад

Davide Pannone It was a joke god damn it 😂

@spottedsaint957 4 года назад

He actually plays a modified Telecaster .

@oliverward5830 4 года назад

Spotted Saint and he also has modified strats and jazzmasters he uses

@Ottophil 4 года назад

Spotted Saint he has strats, and jazzmasters all to the same specs. Emgs

@Ironsvillage 8 лет назад

Jesus fucking Christ, thousands of people getting triggered by a simple joke written on a t-shirt. Is this real life?

@TheJofrica 8 лет назад

I am triggered by your religious profanity

@Ironsvillage 8 лет назад

TheJofrica so be it

@TheJofrica 8 лет назад

Drummin Djently Lack of capitalization = triggered

@Ironsvillage 8 лет назад

TheJofrica SRY M8

@TheJofrica 8 лет назад

Drummin Djently M8? How do you know I am a guy? *triggered*

@SpladeMC 8 лет назад

On the next episode: Can bears shit in the woods?

@miguelalejandrogasca78 8 лет назад

this is ducking genious

@tyreekmurillo4524 7 лет назад

wtap truuuuueeeeeee lol

@caprise-music6722 7 лет назад

Haha

@bigpharmasports9120 6 лет назад

wtap followed by is the pope catholic?

@andrewbergamann7982 5 лет назад

A Beardog: half dog, half bear, Because that way i would live in the house, but i still get to make a doodie in the woods.

@drewscherle5266 8 лет назад

*is a bass player* *sees shirt* *isn't triggered*

@frejneergaard5309 6 лет назад

Drew Scherle Are you sure you're a bass player? We'll have to send you to the lab for testing.

@ilikemetal2910 6 лет назад

Frej Neergaard hahahahahaha

@whyunodye5759 6 лет назад

I play both guitar and bass. Love them both.

@maxinator80ify 6 лет назад

Sometimes the bass player doesn't cmprehend the meaning of those words

@Ergo_Hunter 6 лет назад

Is a bass player, fully understands what’s on the shirt, want one of the shirts

@ArtyShat 4 года назад

Who would have thought that the shape of an electric guitar doesn't determine the sound of it. It's all about tuning (specially in metal), pickups, pedals, amps, mic, mix and master. Even an ukulele can sound huge with proper gear behind it.

@Ilyas702 7 месяцев назад

Even tuning doesn't really matter, I'm currently djenting in E standard on a SSS strat. It sounds awesome, almost refreshing.

@reggietito3261 7 лет назад

a strat with a humbucker is not the strat people are wondering about lol.....

@afraidteenfury2580 6 лет назад

Krok O'dil he means the more iconic version the single coil strats

@Melodeath00 6 лет назад

Not really.

@thomasdinkelspiel1098 6 лет назад

Um no

@konstantink.2127 5 лет назад

Of course it's about the pickups! I have a custom made guitar, strat style body, but two SD humbuckers! It sounds amazing, and even with not only high, but excessive gain (already hot pickup, distortion pedal and amp gain knob on max). I have plugged once a friend's "real" triple single coil strat into this setup and couldn't get anything out but loud, heavily distorted humming. And that's the difference: I personally like the strat cut way better than a les Paul, but for most metal you pretty much need humbuckers. That's the difference, and since your classical Strat does not have humbuckers, this controversy sparked up. It's not about the guitar, but mostly about the PUs

@squierjoshyt 5 лет назад

I agree...the video should be "can I play metal with a humbucker in the bridge?" No shit.

@brocklanders6172 8 лет назад

Shit. You could play Metal on a Gretsch if you had the chops.

@donnellyseanelly 8 лет назад

Yeah this is pretty laughable. The test should have been done with a range of nice single coil guitars.

@awertyuiop8711 8 лет назад

That actually could be a request for a video called: "Can you play metal on a Gretsch?" However, the real question is: D0es 0t Djent?

@thekekgod2403 8 лет назад

Malcolm from AC-DC plays a Gretsch.

@gonzadiazsola 7 лет назад

TheKekGod acdc aint metal

@steveedmondson9651 6 лет назад

Doom metal on a Gretsch White Falcon would be sick

@sebastiansuarez9883 8 лет назад

should've used a higher quality SSS strat :/ that cheap shit isn't a good representation.

@mostlyirishcarguy8955 8 лет назад

yeah i see what you mean i went to a store and played some metal on an american standard sss and it sounded great.

@metalmichew2 8 лет назад

exactly my idea, kinda weird putting 2 beasts up against a cheap off brand tbh..

@mostlyirishcarguy8955 8 лет назад

yea

@TechDeathCowboy 8 лет назад

The other guitar player in my old band used to play a lot of our shows with a MIM strat with a hot rail. Sounded gnarly

@Lord_Swoledemort 8 лет назад

I've got an SSS '72 Fender Strat that I play metal/djent etc on. It sounds amazing. I think the problem is too many of us guitarists listen with our eyes and not our ears.

@utterdisaster603 6 лет назад

Kirk Hammett used strats for years

@seanobrien7568 5 лет назад

hmmmmm

@MrMrowkaTV 5 лет назад

really?

@danc3746 5 лет назад

Yes he did, with EMG Active Single Pups

@Drewitall54 5 лет назад

He did but mostly for load-reload era, which isn’t metal it’s hard rock

@sarondiesel588 5 лет назад

O really? I thought he was a bass player. Lol

@BdogMusic6.2 7 лет назад

Jim root uses a custom strat with emg pickups. He also uses a custom telecaster with emgs.

@involuntarytwitch9771 7 лет назад

Doesn't he use a Jazzmaster?

@gavinrramirez 7 лет назад

Involuntary Twitch He used both

@MrDeadmania 7 лет назад

the silent gamer doesn't he use a Telecaster ?

@BdogMusic6.2 7 лет назад

both

@stinkybojangles4128 7 лет назад

the silent gamer he also uses a custom jazzmaster with emg's as well

@AMpr0d 4 года назад

The single coil gives an interesting sound imo, not as tame as the humbuckers. Definately can work in certain bands.

@Snandra66 8 лет назад

The AK/Strat metaphor actually does make quite a bit of sense, simple, cheap, customizable, and still used in large quantities even to this day.

@Snandra66 8 лет назад

Also, they are both very commonly copied.

@TheJayMadd1 8 лет назад

Very true statement!

@HitmanJenkins1 8 лет назад

Plus both of these things were made for those factors in mind.

@venomau5speedz 8 лет назад

Maybee a very modified strat. - a normal 50's/60's strat...probably not so much.

@seymourmaupin6395 3 года назад

Thanks for explaining such a simple concept. I'd work on saying stuff out loud when your the last one in the room to figure it out. Just saying

@haydenschmid760 4 года назад

"Can you play Metal on a Stratocaster?" Yngwie Malmsteen: Am I a joke to you?

@happyhappy85 3 года назад

Yes.

@ericstrat3579 3 года назад

@@happyhappy85 .. ah, the haters - gonna hate.

@motogplounge6305 3 года назад

@@ericstrat3579 how? op asked a question and he answered. malmteen was a joke of a player

@ericstrat3579 3 года назад

@@motogplounge6305 “Malmsteen…” - is an all-time great player and one of the most influential players in guitar-playing history.

@Hehehe-hf7rq 3 года назад

I keep saying this, "its not the guitar its the AMP!!!!!"

@SJA962 8 лет назад

Short answer: yes No need for video

@evangerold8800 8 лет назад

I've been trying Metallica on some sort of strat for a while so yea obviously.

@kalma5003 8 лет назад

Guitar sound is a yes or no question to you. Sure...

@aimfuldrifter 8 лет назад

Answer is obvious but sometimes it's good to prove one's point.

@evangerold8800 8 лет назад

+fearless13 well I don't think tuning really matters and I think thrash metal is a metal subgenre

@SJA962 8 лет назад

It´s called Metal lica for a reason, genius

@sagegracemusic5981 8 лет назад

IRON MAIDEN USE STRATS!

@Opuskrokus 8 лет назад

YEAH, THAT'S WHAT HE SAID!

@1ilduderino 8 лет назад

Iron Maiden!!!!!!

@scottgerbec5738 8 лет назад

what about Ritchie blackmore?!

@venomau5speedz 8 лет назад

iron maiden are probably closer to classic rock. i think he means really brutal downtuned death metal.

@night_fiend6 8 лет назад

Except they were literally one of the earliest Heavy Metal bands.

@pilotamurorei 8 лет назад

Ummm, Yngwie, Dave Murray, Uli Jon Roth, Ritchie Blackmore. Why are you even wasting time with this, Glen?

@GordonHeaney 8 лет назад

None of them are high gain metal though

@bbrowb885 8 лет назад

+Gordon Heaney Jim Root used a strat for a while. the combined sound from his Strat and Mick Thompsons Ibanez sound great together.

@sprodezz-1424 8 лет назад

+brendon brown jim has emgs in his strat so it kinda doesn't count

@mcorp4268 8 лет назад

+SprodeZz- dude it's still a Stratocaster.

@rat4spd 8 лет назад

And Matthias Jabs.

@davidvashum3572 4 года назад

Strait is literally the AK 47 of guitar

@duradura1990 4 года назад

Strat

@negativespace8358 3 года назад

strait

@caseypayne5138 3 года назад

**Tele

@TheV-Man 3 года назад

@@caseypayne5138 you spelt strat wrong buddy

@aaronperez7969 3 года назад

Does that mean the Les Paul is the m4 of guitars?

@yamasail 7 лет назад

WHY use a cheap knockoff for the single coil test?

@fireemblemistrash75 6 лет назад

yamasail They didn’t have a regular strat to test

@monkeyrobotsinc.9875 6 лет назад

lmfao. how?

@rollipollirock 5 лет назад

sailfish so true my Custom Shop start sounds incredible in metal settings with 8s

@NECROKAZII 4 года назад

@@rollipollirock why is the fish sailing?

@ejw3006 4 года назад

When it’s not a cheap knockoff the singles on a FENDER strat sound pretty nice even with high gain for metal. Works pretty nice

@LowEndPCGamer100 7 лет назад

i think of the strat as the universal guitar

@fadetoblackened4407 5 лет назад

@k2han 5 лет назад

@@fadetoblackened4407 if you don't play clean, yes.

@fadetoblackened4407 5 лет назад

Kyle Hanson are you saying les pauls have a bad clean sound?

@k2han 5 лет назад

@@fadetoblackened4407 humbucker cleans aren't as "interesting" or sparkly, and tend to be a little muddy. Not that it's a bad thing, just hard to make them get a nice jangle.

@fadetoblackened4407 5 лет назад

Kyle Hanson yeah, I agree, it’s not exactly clean, but more like a crunchy, or dirty tone, so I see your point

@sir_john_hammond 8 лет назад

Of course you can. Stupid question. Didn't watch the vid.

@icedink87 8 лет назад

I was almost going to do the same but decided to watch the video. I play a strat and sounds way better for metal than any bc rich

@sir_john_hammond 8 лет назад

All about what you want to accomplish really. And even a single coil strat can be made to sound chunkier with the right preamp/amp combination. Plus in recording, you tend to actually want less distortion anyway. So people can get away with more than they're usually led to believe.

@MagnustheJust 8 лет назад

The strings factor in also... Gauge size would depend on the type of music being played.

@fadia7446 8 лет назад

Try humbucker pickups personaly i loved thoose on flying V models

@sir_john_hammond 8 лет назад

Yes, ideally you want humbuckers and heavier gauge strings to tune lower. But you can still get away with single coils on a strat - most any guitar player knows that strat knockoffs are usually the low end these days with wimpy pickup configs, and yet I've heard many play metal on them and done the same myself more than once. It's obvious to anyone who has played around for even a few minutes that it works.

@FACTBOT_5000 5 лет назад

"Can you play metal on a strat?" YJM: "Am I a joke to you?"

@baykus3006 4 года назад

He doesn't like metal dude, lol

@robban668 4 года назад

@@baykus3006 But he plays it.

@baykus3006 4 года назад

@@robban668 he doesnt play metal. its called neoclassical rock

@dragongamer4753 4 года назад

@@baykus3006 have you actually listened to anything he has ever made. Its metal.

@alessandro9740 3 года назад

@@baykus3006 its neoclassical metal..

@xCepheid 8 лет назад

Listen to some of Sithu Aye's older albums. He used to use a Fender Strat for all his 6 string songs. It had single coils, sounded heavy as heck.

@Tr3vor42532 8 лет назад

Yeah, I'd say Messier Object is a good one to show that off

@AttitudeCastle 8 лет назад

Exactly my thought, and he's a weeb! ;)

@EvelynSucksAtLife Год назад

Wait. Sithu Aye is the Burmese guy right? Wow I never thought us Burmese people would be talked about by other people!

@ipojuca22 8 лет назад

5:38 It's _so easy_ to spot a guitarist who doesn't have the balls to play a bass.

@insystem7 8 лет назад

To be fair the focus here was the guitar.

@SomeDudeOnline 8 лет назад

+ipojuca22 I'm not sure what you mean. He is playing a Bass. I'm guessing you're criticizing him for using a pick but he's still playing a Bass guitar. If I'm right, what does playing with or without a pick have to do with bravery?

@trevorparis 8 лет назад

But the bass is a guitar.

@Velopod 8 лет назад

Picks on bass are great: 1. More bite to the sound 2. Ability to employ more notes quickly, a feat that very few bassists can accomplish with their fingers alone.

@insystem7 8 лет назад

SomeDudeOnline He is saying the guy is just playing the bass to fill up the frequencies, he isn't doing any licks or anything interesting with it, he is just using it to fill up the mix. He basically just hit the lowest notes to supplement the guitar. Again the focus was on the guitar, so there was really no need for any good bass playing, just filling up those low frequencies is enough. And yes, before anyone says it, these riffs were perfect for some nice bass riffage. but that's not what the video is about so lets focus on how the guitar sounds.

@Will-qv6es 8 лет назад

Get a boss metalzone pedal, that is how you get a metal tone

@ulasgursoy2838 8 лет назад

And no mids. On a spider combo.

@lawngnome412 8 лет назад

......someone kill that comment with fire please.....

@gj9665 8 лет назад

+Ulaş Gürsoy with ALL THE GAIN

@mcorp4268 8 лет назад

and then use a 7 string and don't use a pick.

@miguelroldao6939 8 лет назад

And don't forget to boost it with a Tube screamer, to get a more organic, full sound.

@MrShadowofthewind 7 лет назад

Single coils on todays overdrives actually work incredibly well, so many different types of single coils available these days, wich is why so many to it these days, and if you put the infamous middle boost mod of Clapton on your strat it will be incredible for metal.

@ImGazu 8 лет назад

I'll answer this before even watching this. Cryptopsy played on strats.

@dainbramage0 8 лет назад

Yeah, none so vile is about as heavy as it gets.

@sicariusbladehart9525 8 лет назад

for the none so vile record?

@Phiapet 8 лет назад

Immediately thought of Cryptopsy as well. However, Jon used an emg humbucker in the bridge.

@ImGazu 8 лет назад

dainbramage0 BMF was pretty heavy too. Mutant Christ and Born Headless for example.

@ImGazu 8 лет назад

Sicarius Bladehart Yeah I think it was all the way up to Once Was Not

@landofold 5 лет назад

High output single coils sound AMAZING for metal! Really biting and punchy, don't understand why everyone says you have to use humbuckers.

@KevinMillard68 7 лет назад

i put 3 dual rails in my strat and now i like my strat alot more

@mal2ksc 6 лет назад

I did the same to my kit build, but the pickups in the kit were awful so that wasn't a very high bar to climb over. :)

@kaustik185 2 года назад

noooo! how does the 4th position sound? still glassy and hollow? i imagine it sounds hella full now. not good! :D just a matter of taste i guess

@TheRockpelle 4 года назад

Tony Iommi played a strat on black sabbaths debut

@SuperMisteryMan01 3 года назад

Really? Did not know that

@eilliwwasniahc 3 года назад

Only one song. Wicked World. The pickup or wiring in the Strat failed, no output. For the rest of the album he used his backup, an SG special with P90 single coils that he had just recently acquired. He ended up liking the SG better and never used the Strat again.

@andrewcoulter7894 3 года назад

@@eilliwwasniahc He sold the Strat, then years later Geezer saw it in the window of a pawn shop. By the time he got back with some cash, the guitar was gone.

@502deth 8 лет назад

im a total strat fan, but come on, a strat is s-s-s. jamming a humbucker in there makes it not a strat any more. that said, i modded my strat with a seymore duncan jb in the bridge, a jb jr mid, and hot rails neck pickups, and it is metal as fuck.

@Bryan-kl5rr 8 лет назад

so why do you call your guitar a strat then if you put a hot rails in there? fat strats arent stratocasters?

@TASPlasma 8 лет назад

False, Fender made custom strats that have Humbuckers.

@502deth 8 лет назад

no. fat strats are not strats. they are bastardized versions. i could stuff a chevy engine in a ford, and this is routinely done on custom rods, but that dont make it a ford. and no tas, they are not only custom, they make standard versions that they put humbuckers in. that still dosent make it right

@TASPlasma 8 лет назад

deth502 I agree it is off for them to call it a strat, it's likely better for marketing to call it a strat and not some new guitar, but Fender makes them, so they really have the right to define what a strat is, and what it isn't.

@Bryan-kl5rr 8 лет назад

+deth502 hahahaha ok..

@jonrivera 7 лет назад

Personally I LOVE the sound of heavily distorted single coils.

@pite9 7 лет назад

The cheap guitar sounded like a strat. The others not so much, because of the pickups. Strats with typical pickups are decent at best if you want a traditional "metal" sound, but they have a sound with a lot of personality. I love that sound personally, and it's very popular in Japan.

@archange1717 5 лет назад

Doesn't Iron Maiden use Stratocasters??...

@mcjunior011 7 лет назад

You can play whatever you want with any shit connected to amplifier. Unless you are not pro-guitarist you don't need to confuse about this polemics. Just take you cable and connect it that's all.

@mutantkoffee 7 лет назад

Mehmet Cumhur nuff said

@97stratocaster21 7 лет назад

Mehmet Cumhur amen.

@BOMNN 7 лет назад

MegaCrasherMusic yeah i agree totally i just know alot of dudes that see a guy use the startocaster to play from nu metal to reggeae on the same guitar and theese people go like oh jesus christ get a les paul or sg they look better, i mean they purists dont repect the others likes!

@rustbeltrestoration 6 лет назад

distortion pedal/gain+drop c = metal

@legaciestr 6 лет назад

Mehmet Cumhur aynen kanka haklısın ama ingilizcene çalış

@angrytroll27 8 лет назад

From Deep Purple, Iron Maiden, Malmsteen and Marduk. Yeah it can do metal

@jessickalush3305 8 лет назад

weak metal though.

@angrytroll27 8 лет назад

have ya heard marduk? n if we didnt have maiden, priest or deep purple where would metal be now?

@LucruxDCLXVI 8 лет назад

We had Ronnie James Dio, I think we would have been fine

@angrytroll27 8 лет назад

n who gave dio his big chance? ritchie blackmore.

@jessickalush3305 8 лет назад

rainbow?

@dissolvemovies8043 7 лет назад

those dislikes from mad bass players ... hahaha

@SpectreSoundStudios 7 лет назад

+DisSolve Movies yep. Lots of unhappy short bus riders!

@cementheed 4 года назад

Yes, Stratocasters are extremely versatile - especially is one puts a humbucker SeymourDuncan pickup, like the hot-rails, or a JB Jr (which will fit perfectly into a single coil mount).

@Star_Taro 4 года назад

Love the history lesson

@SpectreSoundStudios 4 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it! More on the way!

@MrRaphaelLippi 8 лет назад

Just put humbuckers...

@ThePuertoricanBeastJonathan 8 лет назад

some stacked pickups

@MrRaphaelLippi 8 лет назад

Humbuckers sound better IMO.

@tomscioscia9869 8 лет назад

+Raphael Lippi Humbuckers sound different, not better.

@ThePuertoricanBeastJonathan 8 лет назад

Single coils for me

@intherageoflove 8 лет назад

Because of its shape, a Stratocaster sounds like a Stratocaster even with humbuckers. By putting them in maybe you must sacrifice some tipical Strat brightness and if you leave some single coil it may sound incongruous with the humbucker. But on Telecaster, a bridge humbucker sounds very well and matches the rest, always beacuse of it shapes and weight and of course depending on the wood quality. I use to play metal on my Squier, with the right gain, dialing the bass control up to 7.

@BlackburnBigdragon 7 лет назад

I've been playing the same Strat for the past 22+ years in various punk, metal, industrial, and noise projects that I've been involved with. Me and this puppy have been through a LOT together. I bought it for $75 from a friend who was moving away back when I was still in high school. He had intended to get lessons but never did and had barely played it at the time. It's very punished at this point, but it's a punk rock instrument so it definitely looks the part at this point so it has character now.

@EgoShredder 8 лет назад

If Yngwie Malmsteen can use a Strat for Metal, then that is good enough for me! Also I think Vinnie Moore used them in his earlier days. Some of the lead solo phrases in the demo here were in the style of both the artists I mention. I added a nice Yamaha Pacifica 212VFM to my collection last year, because all my other guitars are super strats with Floyd Rose trems and humbuckers.

@Trials-and-Tribulations 8 лет назад

Vinnie Moore used Ibanez 540s series back in the day. You might've mistaken Vinnie Moore for Steve vai. Steve vai used a hot rod strat which was basis for his Ibanez Jem. I'm talking about the Green Meanie, that's an Ibanez Jem in a Stratocaster clothing.

@thorthunderlungs5171 8 лет назад

Dave Murray has been doing it for 40 years.

@gardhydahl8395 8 лет назад

except that yngwie is shit

@stubkar 8 лет назад

+Gard Høydahl right.

@gardhydahl8395 8 лет назад

yeah

@neildmonte8786 3 года назад

I play Black Metal using a strat, a Squier VM and it works just fine... you do need a noise gate and using overdrive rather distortion helps. I disagreed with this one, lots of guitarists have made the traditional strat work in metal... it might not sound exactly like an EMG guitar but it can sound unique (rather than every other boring plastic album recorded using RG and Dinky guitars).

@metalhead557 8 лет назад

Jim Root of Slipknot, and John 5 use Telecasters. Not a stretch of the imagination lol.

@edwinfields9379 8 лет назад

I believe that Jim Root's guitar is equipped with EMGs.

@edwinfields9379 8 лет назад

+EJ Fields And he mainly uses Jazzmasters and Strats.

@metalhead557 8 лет назад

I believe you're right.

@buzzsaw63 8 лет назад

Both players play humbuckers in those guitars

@Vaalbara27 8 лет назад

+EJ Fields but they are fender strats...

@Bassistking 8 лет назад

I OWN a 7-string Fender Strat. Fender won't make them anymore. I called Fender to have another one made but I'm told "they're not allowed to make them anymore." Guess I better hold on tight to mine!

@TheJayMadd1 8 лет назад

Thobbe Englund from Sabaton plays a Stratocaster :)

@jb_uwu 8 лет назад

I immediately thought of Thobbe when I read the title. Sadly he's leaving Sabaton.

@thatguyoverthere531 8 лет назад

Swedish Pagans?

@kresimir1994 8 лет назад

Yeah, with single coils :)

@FloodExterminator 8 лет назад

The first metal band thats plays with strats that comes to mind is Iron Maiden

@MisterGuyFeller 8 лет назад

+Jeroen de Bie last concert on Saturday, sad times

@poulx 8 лет назад

Nice video! Even nicer t-shirt! Where can I buy that? I'm a bass player and just want to make it easier om the rest of the band :)

@poulx 8 лет назад

+SpectreSoundStudios thx!

@poulx 8 лет назад

Bought! It is just what I need. I hope it doesn't get held back at customs in Denmark.

@Starlight_Akira 8 лет назад

+poul g exner... Lool you were joking right? Hahah xd he fucking linked you as well! Spectre... You can shuv your T-shirts up your fucking ass, in PROPPER bands, the bassist is probably the main composser, along with the guitarist, normaly! You call your self a musician... Pitiull.

@poulx 8 лет назад

+Obvious Cabage well, I get kind of distracted from time to time :)

@Starlight_Akira 8 лет назад

***** Are you being serious then? Because bassicaly, if you dont know, there is a joke around the musician comunity that is, bassists dont count as musicians, because bass is easy... BUT! People seriously underestimate the value of the bassist, in a lot of cheasy shity band the bassist probably dosent do much, as do the other musicians in the band, but if you ind a propper band, who are acctualy tallented, you'll ind the the bassist is most probably the composer, and writes all the songs... The thing about being a bassist is, if you dont learn music theory AND rythm, you WILL be sit... This is because there are all kinds of notes you should be hiting that harmanise, and move the song one way or another, release different feelings... Dose any of this make sence? Or even do you know this allready?

@lenylenyleny 8 лет назад

i love single coil in metal. what a great sound

@xaviermontoya3105 8 лет назад

+Fire Marshall Bill I know nothing about guitar but you are wrong

@xaviermontoya3105 8 лет назад

+Fire Marshall Bill It was a joke btw

@PANICBLADE 8 лет назад

+Fire Marshall Bill Actually they cut way better after dialing them in right. I mean how many people use tone controls on HB equipped guitars? Many just remove them. Strats have that extra brightness and are more dynamic. Modern metal guitarists are begging for extra brightness and dynamics but are bending over backwards to get it when the answer has been in front of them the whole time. Most metal dudes use some kind of overdrive or boost with a noisegate anyway, wiping any concerns about the strat's low output or hum away immediately.

@primeDecomposition 7 лет назад

I'm a strat/tele guy through and through, but truthfully I can't imagine how one could, say, chug away on like some Periphery riffs on the typical strat bridge pup (even with a tone pot wired to it); but I've only sparingly experimented trying to get a metal sort of tone on a strat just for shits and giggles. Even with 'beefed up' single coils I haven't gotten very far, but admittedly I've only high-gain pedals and BF style amps at my disposal to play with. Like a Mesa Mark V would be much more desirable lol. Have you 'run any experiments' yourself? What works for you?

@VindicareAssassinTTS 8 лет назад

Thobbe Englund from Sabaton plays on a strat with regular single coils.

@thatguyoverthere531 8 лет назад

It's a shame he left, but the Swedish pagans will still live on!

@sidthebassist89 6 лет назад

I want that shirt to wear while I play my bass haha

@davekp6773 6 лет назад

summerson1 It really is excellent and although I am a bass player, I know it is not directed at me because I try to be the complete opposite of the type of bass player Glenn is referring to and as a result I do not need to rebut it.

@NcedoWabantu 8 лет назад

*opens video* *goes along* *notices shirt* *TRIGGERED* I'll have you know that bass is the foundation of music. Have you tried building a house without a foundation? Exactly!

@thorinbane 8 лет назад

LMAO exactly why he does that.

@isaacyak4703 8 лет назад

he plays metal remember...he's too cool for a bassist

@NcedoWabantu 8 лет назад

+Isaac Yak WOAH!

@grantbowers2319 8 лет назад

What about a boat house?

@timwhite5562 8 лет назад

Why don't you make like a bass and be inaudible ;-p (JK, Just finally had the opportunity to use that line)

@LBibeauB24 7 лет назад

First two years learning guitar I played on a Squier Strat. Played everything from Bon Jovi to Metallica to Children of Bodom on it before I got my first Humbucker guitar.

@bluesalamander5527 4 года назад

Davie504 looks at his shirt Davie504: HOLD MY BEER!!!

@fredthebasspro2256 4 года назад

!SLAP!

@kyordy 6 лет назад

Misha Mansoor from periphery records with a Jackson Strat, and for their last tour played it live for a good portion of the set.

@lucas-940 8 лет назад

Jim Root from slipknot uses a strat now and then

@Ethan007Hacks 8 лет назад

mainly uses telecaster

@tylermorrison4728 8 лет назад

He also has a signature all black strat

@ZisisJP 8 лет назад

its a custom made for it to reach them sounds of slipknot so doesnt count

@TIMBERxTrees 8 лет назад

Usually plays a telecaster with almost no original equipment installed. He probably prefers the "feel" of the guitar more than the sound. That thing is no longer a Fender.

@ajalonzo2705 8 лет назад

+Ravoren its basically a frankencaster. all the original pickups are switched out as well as the bridge depending on which guitar it is

@StopPrism4251 7 лет назад

Ritchie Blackmore. The. End.

@dylonoverton3738 7 лет назад

PrismEdits oh my gosh ACDC isn't metal

@dylonoverton3738 7 лет назад

Chaitanya Reddy yeah i love guns n roses. sorry i mixed bands up

@marioguti9887 7 лет назад

and Dave Murray, Adrian Smith, Glenn Tipton, Jannick Gers...

@talkinboutdstrct 7 лет назад

Andreas Kisser

@robertopanzalis1059 7 лет назад

Deep Purple ain't metal

@coldwaterboy2226 6 лет назад

of course strats can play metal. Jake E Lee played a strat on the Ozzy album Bark at the moon and look how amazing that turned out

@raspberryjuiceentertainmen719 4 года назад

Can you play metal on a strat? Iron maiden and Kirk Hammett: *YES!!!*

@ccollins9981 8 лет назад

Why is Sharon Ozbourne pre 9 plastic surgeries talking Metal on Strats?

@WilliamMcCarthyIII 8 лет назад

what

@joshstans 7 лет назад

C Collins lmfao

@ravenjames3873 6 лет назад

no he doesn't

@Anthonybrother 6 лет назад

Hahahaha

@I_dont_give_a_care 6 лет назад

C Collins make it wordier

@SmokingBirds 8 лет назад

am i the only one disagreeing to his verdict? i thought the strat sounded rather weak for the rythm not suitable for the tight sound of todays metal. The lead however surprised me. sounded very nice. suitable for a metal lead. :)

@BenChuab34tl35 8 лет назад

yeah the rhythm kinda lacks the classic metal "chug"... not enough mids and bass... not that I'm any metal expert lol. The lead did sound great!

@omgtkseth 8 лет назад

I would like to point you guys to a video called "Know Your Tone - Blind Test Guitar Challenge!". The actual tone differences arent so much as people would expect. The fact that you know that its a strat makes you biased and hypersensitive, but under most conditions most people wouldnt notice, especially with heavy distortion and the whole band playing along... /watch?v=9AEp4R7v_oc

@BenChuab34tl35 8 лет назад

omgtkseth watched that video before... but objectively speaking this rhythm tone was a little thin... just my opinion of course.

@SmokingBirds 8 лет назад

omgtkseth yes that is true. you will of course be biased as in being hypersensitive. but that is what choosing a guitar is about. everybody on a record could use 500$ instruments and it could sound good. but that doesnt mean that there is no place for 3000 $ instruments. when deciding about a guitar u have to be hypersensitive. and it doesnt sound think or heavy. it just sounds distorted but weak.

@justyo96 8 лет назад

The hotrail is the only one that sounded alright with the rhythm stuff. It makes sense that they would work well with metal leading though - anyone remember someone called Malmsteen? ;P

@TheAmazingCobalt 8 лет назад

*James plays bass James notices this shirt James laughs it off realising it's a joke James moves on* Be more like James.

@TheOnlyHollywood1 4 года назад

Dave Murray and Kirk Hammett used strats. So yes, strats can be used for metal

@marcostama7079 8 лет назад

He looks so much like my ex's father that I punched the screen

@Stank_Dank_ 8 лет назад

sounds like you got personal issues to work on

@juniorrhere6262 8 лет назад

+Trenton Lambert I laughed so hard at this, more than I should've lolol

@marcostama7079 8 лет назад

You probably struggle to leak parts of your social media fueled persona into your real life but don't worry mate, we're all one, we'll make it, keep up.

@juniorrhere6262 8 лет назад

+Marc Stama Who the hell are you talking to?

@marcostama7079 8 лет назад

Juniorr Here Not you, giggling sidekick.

@ryshenton 7 лет назад

I always ignored statocasters because I figured they were over used or over rated but I've come to actually see them as some of my favorite guitars now. I don't think the tone is cheesy or anything at all, in fact I kind of love of smooth it is; probably at least more then the Les Paul Gibson, even though I like the Junior probably as much.

@markgowans 8 лет назад

The guitar doesn't really matter I don't think. The magic is all in the fingers.

@sweetjustice8141 8 лет назад

tuning and tone all the way

@TallicaMan1986 8 лет назад

Not if you're playing swedish death metal, it won't be heavy enough.

@themelnibonean7017 8 лет назад

Obituary

@nathanrae5783 8 лет назад

What a pile of crap. How can fingers make a bigger difference than humbuckers vs single coils? You mad bruv?

@futret1614 8 лет назад

no no its in the pedals ;)

@dimebagdio4204 5 лет назад

I hated my squire strat for metal for the longest time but after getting a Jackson I learned to appreciate it for the difference in tone. I love it for HM-2 type tones.

@Arthemesia 8 лет назад

if I remember right. Misha recently got a 7 string strat single coil. ask him to do a video!

@jrose92081 8 лет назад

In the making of select difficulty video here on youtube mark was playing clean parts on it.Sounds great..

@sarthakray5887 8 лет назад

Yes but that is an Artistides. This is Fender/Squier.

@eduardocervantesaca 8 лет назад

Can you play metal on a Strat? Three words: Iron Fucking Maiden. Thats enough to answer the question, isn't it?

@3vann5567 7 лет назад

Someone actually made an ak-47 looking guitar out of a knock-off strat.

@3vann5567 7 лет назад

The trigger is the whammy bar.

@djlesinski7978 5 лет назад

Diresta

@federationofamericasecurit2276 4 года назад

Can you play metal on strat? Jim root : hold my beer

@radityarizco332 4 года назад

Jim root has a signature strat bro he uses humbucker pick up

@ichiro319 3 года назад

He uses EMG'S

@arathi0n 8 лет назад

Is it only me or is the colour temperature bit colder than usual?

@SpectreSoundStudios 8 лет назад

+Martin Mikuška good eye!

@thatguyoverthere531 8 лет назад

I hadn't even noticed until you mentioned it.

@tnikiforov 8 лет назад

quite a bit colder id say , was wondering if its just my eyes :D

@Critical_Cabbage 8 лет назад

Looks like it, and I think it looks pretty awesome actually.

@philclarke7712 8 лет назад

Only if you're a bass player

@TheCrimsonIdol987 7 лет назад

I have to ask Glenn, why are so many people butthurt by this video? By the way, that white strat sounds looks SOOOO sexy.

@commandconquerfitness1506 7 лет назад

TheCrimsonIdol987 honestly I think the second clip with the hotrail (I think) sounded dark and heavy. The last clip with the white sounded like it was lacking depth

@TheCrimsonIdol987 7 лет назад

Command & Conquer Fitness The white strat highlighted different frequencies. Hot Rails are known for highlighting the mid-range more, which causes the guitar to cut through a mix better. The second guitar is using stock Fender humbuckers, which highlight different frequencies.

@ATthemusician 7 лет назад

I'm getting an Arctic White MiM soon, white strats are my favorite.

@NYPDWeatherman 6 лет назад

Might be the shirt

@muthapluckinnathan 6 лет назад

Andrew Teller racist

@eventsotherthingswithchris9019 7 лет назад

Didn't Yngwie use a Strat? How about Eric Johnson??

@abelfierro8551 5 лет назад

Eric isn't metal... Duh!

@kumarxabhijeet 5 лет назад

Eric plays clean af.

@erickleefeld4883 5 лет назад

If you take a regular, fairly modern Strat that has the reverse-polarity pickup in the middle position, then all you really need to do is go to the bridge-middle combination to get the hum canceled out, and make sure to boost your mids on the amp. This will make up for the scooped out sound from the parallel wired combo, and give you back some punch. Then you’ll get a great sound that goes well with heavy distortion, while keeping the individual string articulation for which Strats are so well known.

@Breaker197 3 года назад

Precisely what i do with mine. Helps if you start with an already high gain amp and then juice it a little with some overdrive/eq. Then you just noisegate the crap out of it and you're basically good. Sure it's not the super 'full', 'thick' or 'big' sound that everyone seems to have an idiotic obsession with, but who needs that crap? You need your guitar to cut through the mix and have full mids, which the strat does wonderfully. Let the bass and drums have the damn room they need!

@programmedwrong3795 8 лет назад

Does anyone else think this guy sort of resembles Quentin Tarantino with long hair?

@williamshears8469 8 лет назад

no, he resemples a sea lion

@Juniversal 8 лет назад

I was thinking Penn Jillette without facial hair lol..

@hethrham123 8 лет назад

Wayne's world. Wayne's world, excellent

@AndrewTheHoff 8 лет назад

looks like Metal God Gaben

@tomdekeijzer1569 8 лет назад

scrolled through the comments to see if anyone else noticed it

@tedcruzforgayrights2045 8 лет назад

You can play metal on any guitar

@JackCarver10 8 лет назад

The bass / guitar player at 5:37 has some SERIOUS rhythm / tempo issues, holy cow.

@curtislitchfield1378 5 лет назад

I built a Strat using Warmoth parts, Grover hardware, and Duncan pickups. It's got a JB jr. in the Neck, Quarter Pounder in the middle, and a 6-string Pegasus in the bridge. I picked the pegasus because of a Demo by Keith Merrow on the Seymour Duncan website. both humbuckers are coil split using a push/push volume pot. It's a killer metal guitar, and it's what got me back into playing. I'm not a huge strat fanboy by any means, but I use this guitar to learn how to play Intervals tunes. Whether or not you consider that Djent or not, doesn't matter. It's still metal, and my strat sounds great.

@Metal-Possum 8 лет назад

Yngwie Malmsteen has made a satisfactory career out of playing a Strat (much that I don't like him whatsoever). Heck, I've even seen a good old Telecaster used for extreme metal. The guitar isn't the important part, by the time you have all your pedals and amplifier settings destroying the signal, you just need literally anything that can output a noise.

@dennisbrown2106 8 лет назад

yea Jim in slipknot uses a telecaster on volume 3 and all hope is gone actually for ex. psychosocial

@stankfanger1366 8 лет назад

I physically bowed to you at _"destroying the signal"_.

@tworivers71 8 лет назад

His main one is a Jazzmaster as well...

@angusyoungrocker9999 8 лет назад

It may as well not be a telecaster once it's modified that much. The only thing his guitar has in common with a telecaster is the shape really. Different pickups, different wood, different controls, body contour, locking tuners etc. Literally anything can be modded.

@stankfanger1366 8 лет назад

Dom Whiffen My neighbor brings his "Telecaster" with two humbuckers over to play sometimes. I told him he's not allowed to call it that in my house anymore. If it doesn't have a slanted single coil in the bridge and a lipstick at the neck, it's not a Telecaster - it's just a guitar that's shaped like one.

@definitelynotgore 8 лет назад

You can play metal on just about anything. I've made a 335 sound heavy, so a strat can definitely do metal.

@definitelynotgore 8 лет назад

Also are we forgetting about Jim Root?

@vykroft 8 лет назад

true that

@7Dev 8 лет назад

I just bought a les Paul special II how can I make it sound like a metal guitar? Sorry for the stupid question I'm new

@definitelynotgore 8 лет назад

+Johnny Devlin Just spend time with your amp! Try different combinations, whether you come up with them yourself or from other people on the Internet.

@alexwales8914 8 лет назад

Doesn't Jim Root play a Tele?

@goredrinker2740 8 лет назад

Djent on a strat? Does I Built The Sky - Lacunosus count?

@goredrinker2740 8 лет назад

More around the 3 minute mark

@FirstnameLastname-mi7xg 8 лет назад

I use a schecter demon 7 if that counts for anything

@Vaxilion 8 лет назад

Noramlly if you use a strat type guitar for djent or death metal and etc you'd use a super strat

@mattmakuc5117 8 лет назад

Challenge: build a 9-string strat, for a low C# string.

@5urg3x 8 лет назад

Fender were actually the first to build a 7 string They debuted it at NAMM but IIRC they canned it, thinking it would not sell

@jornvallis8051 5 лет назад

Obviously a HSS/HSH Strat can be used to play Metal. The question really should be, "Can you get good Metal tone out of Single Coil Pups?" And the answer is no. When you think of a traditional Strat, you think of Single Coil Pups...

@franziez 5 лет назад

Now i know why I cant activate harmonics, single coil...

@shadyburnike264 4 года назад

F****** love the clarity of the single-coil.. amazing.. I thought the stage sounded pretty good

@jeffreyp1855 8 лет назад

Holy shit! There are so many bands, who play great metal on Strats! "Maiden", for one?

@jeffreyp1855 8 лет назад

Oh! Damn! Glenn, already pointed that out! LOL!

@gmr9701 8 лет назад

Even though Maiden would be the prime example, its not really fair, because their strats are heavily modified. Both Smith and Murray have Floyd Rose as their preference for tremolos, which add huge stability. As for pickups, Smith is known to use DiMarzio, especially Super Distortion on the bridge, while Murray generally uses Duncan Hot Rails. Hell, even I can play metal on my Strat, but mine has a PAF Pro as its factory bridge pup, that thing growls like a demon

@jeffreyp1855 8 лет назад

Gregorio Montanaro Yeah, I wasn't aware of all of that, Gregario! So, essentially, Maiden are playing on hot rodded Strats. I guess the same can be said about Yngwie Malmsteen and others. I played some pretty heavy stuff on a simple Squire. So I know even cheap Fenders can sound heavy, but, to be fair, I was using some expensive pedals! LOL!

@gmr9701 8 лет назад

Yep, nothing standard about their rig

@johnscott8431 4 года назад

I play a MIM Stratocaster with 3 hot rails and I couldn’t love the sound any more. Even clean sounds are amazing. Definitely inspired by Dave Murray. Hangs up next to my p-bass, inspired by Steve Harris. Both are three color sunburst, maple necks, with black pickguards and Seymour Duncan pickups. Beautiful set!

@profundus8946 2 года назад

I'm thinking of getting a sunburst stratocaster and own a sunburst P bass maple neck and play Maiden every day. Are you me?

@edreed5571 2 года назад

@Profundus dumb

@user-ov7wv6fd3d 4 года назад

I'm at 0:49 this guy's age and hair tell me he could play metal on a cucumber.

@pixodius 5 лет назад

If you're just going to use humbuckers then whats the point? the pickup configuration is 90% of what a guitar sounds like.

@bradchervel5202 8 лет назад

Strats are like the scalpel of tone. It cuts right through the mix and has a very sharp clear tone which I love. I personally like their metal tone over Gibson for that reason.

@PANICBLADE 8 лет назад

Getting something to sound fuller, deeper, louder and with more sustain is relatively easy. The hardest thing to add is that dynamic and articulation, something that the strat is in no short supply of. With the amount of noisefree single coil options and noise gates available, strats are more applicable now than ever. Plus I find myself switching between pickups and using the tone and volume controls on my strat rather than my humbucker guitars, which usually are left with the knobs all the way up on the bridge position.

@crimsun7186 8 лет назад

Telecasters do that better than Strats.

@briansteffmagnussen9078 8 лет назад

Telly's lie between Strats and Los Paul's I am a Telly guy, The Telly win it all, all the time.

@bradchervel5202 8 лет назад

Brian steff magnussen I love the Tele myself. I have heard Tele's sound amazing on metal. It's just most people dont seem to know how to dial it in. I just love the crispness of both the Tele and the Strat over the Les Paul which is a bit muddy to my ear. Iron Maiden is a perfect example of brutal tone that couldnt be achieved with a Les Paul.

@richardharrold9736 8 лет назад

There's no such thing as a noise-free single coil. Those "noiseless" pickups are wired in-phase and so become humbuckers. A true single-coil Strat is out of phase, that's what gives it that great sound... but not so great for metal. You may as well just get a guitar with humbuckers.

@Alxe_OST 7 лет назад

4:07 thank me later

@CMDRkarstenvader 4 года назад

I love how this guy is respectful of a blatantly terrible strat, saying it sounded not so great instead of shitting on it, but also wears a shirt saying all bass players are useless. Love this guy.

@ArnulfVonMetz1 3 года назад

If the Strat has a humbucker on bridge position definetely! The Singlecoil needs the whole gain of the world for brutal metal sound because the single coil sounds thin and bassless

@rabankroll 8 лет назад

what the fuck was that at 1:39

@Pannemat 8 лет назад

Lol.

@dddennis4111 8 лет назад

I dont get it

@bernieadams6606 8 лет назад

Hahaha. I get it.

@dramawind 8 лет назад

Reverse voicecrack.

@gpdude22 8 лет назад

It goes with the pansy hair flip at 3:07.

@radicalrals9973 5 лет назад

4:53 "pretty good damn good" lol

@chrismartin8425 2 года назад

My maple neck strat with the hot rail is pretty heavy. It's extremely versatile and has great intonation. It's my favorite guitar. I hated strata when i was younger. But now, i love them.