Strats and Humbucker Guitars through the same rig.

[DavidE]

My current rig has been killing with my strat with lace sensors (gold/gold/blue). Bascially a bunch of pedals into a Mesa Blue Angel 4x10. But I like to change it up at a gig and use some humbuckers too. No matter what humbucker guitar I plug in (Hamers, PRS, Gibson), they just don't sound very good and I end up putting the strat back in my hands. I haven't had this with prior rigs.

Maybe it's the amp? Or just the way I have it set?

Any suggestions on how to make it work?

[ArnieZ]

FWIW

I would think you have to use different settings to get the most out of both. Lace Sensor single coils have a much different tone than HB's. I personally did not care for the the Blue Angel 4x10 I tried with humbuckers.

ArnieZ

[DavidE]

The strat has a blue lace at the bridge which I think is supposed to be more of a humbucker sound but it's really not at all.

I'm not sure about the Blue Angel, though that's what Hamer uses at the factory, isn't it?

[Jorge]

DavidE, a simple Boss eq. pedal will give you what you need. Either tune the amp to the humbucker guitar or the Strat, and use the Eq. to give you the volume and frequency shape that sounds good for you with the other.

[JohnnyScarp]

My rig is setup for a P90 neck/ HB bridge that I use 90% of the time. When I play my strat through that set up, I use a Tech 21 DoubleDrive. Works great.

Scarp

[Guest teefus2]

i don't know if you want to go to the trouble of changing pickups or not but something like an unbucker might respond more like the strat set-up. what changes do you need to make after switching guitars? simple eq or gain, compression, etc? when i go from a newport pro to my korina artist hb i have to adjust the eq a little because the artist is a little brighter and responds differently than the newport pros.

[Craig S]

I used to use the GE-7 E.Q for that same thing, works reasonably well. BTW your Artist sounded good out front, your boost was the only thing I didn't really hear consistantly. The tone with the buckers was very "MESA".. much better than average however, but that Mesa signature tone.