I’d tend to agree with this.I disagree
Clapton has been a Strat only guy since the mid 70's He always has a blocked trem or no trem strat. If you play strats you become very aware the pitfalls of early strats with 7.5 radius. Using the trem always pushes some of the string back behind the nut causing it to go out. Look at the old Jimi Hendrix videos he's always correcting for the tuning going out mid song.
Bob Dylan played a stratocaster
Some trems are better than others. Ibanez had a crazy zero trem system that was terrible Some strat type guitars do better with direct string inline with nut at proper pitch. String trees can be a pain. Rollers are better.
If you have a whammy bar on the guitar you may or may not use it. I've got one on my Parker Fly P44 that I never use because I find it too damn stiff. My FR equipped Charvel SD Model One MIM is amazing for keeping tune. There is a lock feature so I can't/dont pull up to far. (that's the way I break too many strings on my Jackson Dinky) I still don't go nuts on the whammy bar. Because it's not my bag.
Stratocasters are very popular in the smooth jazz field
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJqAxHByppU
I’ve rarely had a strat I could do Tremelo abuse on like say, Ritchie Blackmore did…and have it stay in tune well (when trying to copy his style) .
The closest I had was a Charvel jap strat that had a big ass Brass roller nut on it . It was some special odd jap design specifically for that model.
STB- something model.
It was pretty effective. But the Trem was setup for floating so no palm muting , didnt like that setup and cbf tryna reset the Trem . It also had jumbo frets I’m not a fan of so with those and floating Trem i decided to sell it eventually
Great quality guitar tho top to tail those Older series jap charvel strats.
red sunburst STB model I think…
Statistics: Posted by Naillerz78 — Mon Sep 09, 2024 3:45 am