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[Wes Mantooth]

(05-28-2021, 06:52 PM)BengalsRocker Wrote: I'd love to check out some Suhr stuff.

Always sounds fantastic to me and I've heard by many they play like butter.

Like you, I used to play LP heavy ass guitars for years and decided to switch predominantly to Strats.

Strats are the swiss army knife of guitars and if you're playing different genres they can pretty much do it all.

I used the HSS configuration 5 way switched with coil splitting which enabled me to get all kinds of clean and funky tones too.

Les Pauls definitely get the job done for heavy stuff/blues and have great singing tones.  Love me some Gary Moore and Dave Meniketti growing up.

It just didn't seem to do it enough for clean tone versatility for me.

Of course you can tweak and change anything to get what you need, but Strats just make it so much easier in my opinion right out of the box.

I have a Headrush pedal board system that I had planned on trying at some live shows, but I ended up retiring from playing out for a while recently.

Now I'll just try using it for home recording.  Like the Helix you can plug it right into your PC without an interface.  

So, some sad news (at least for me. lol)  My Suhrs are now gone.  I took a bit hit in pay this year with the Covid stuff and needed to some extra money so I bit the bullet and sold them both.

They really are amazing guitars.  I will say that some people who love traditional Fenders may need some time to get used to them.  And some people who just love a vintage feel may not dig them up as much.  

The stainless steel frets definitely give them a brighter tone which may throw some people off at first.  But for anyone that isn't shy about using their tone knob wouldn't have any problems.  They're meticulous set up with low action and almost no relief.  I actually added relief and raised the action a hair.  It's was too low, and played almost too well for my liking if that makes any sense.

I'm pretty much just like you.  I'm on a HSS strat almost all of the time.  It's almost a neccessity for me because I love playing in Eb and well, there's no better guitar for that than a strat.

I'm down just an HHS USA Fender and my trusty old Les Paul which I really should play more.