Strat tone question

[stickyfiddle]

Righto. My strat is lovely. It feels nice, plays well and does the Mayer-blues thing really well. But it's quite polite. I keep watching videos of other strat guys- mostly Springsteen's chaps- and they're getting sounds my own strat can only dream of. How do I get near this? Is it a pedal thing?

See 3:30 here:

[ICBM]

Look carefully at Nils Lofgren and Steve van Zandt's Strats - especially at the jack plates - and then Google "Alembic Stratoblaster".

[stickyfiddle]

Aha!! I knew Nils had all sorts of gubbins in his, but hadn't realised SVZ did as well... Will have a google.

[ICBM]

It's actually a pretty basic single-transistor booster, so you should be able to get similar results with something like an EH LPB-1, if you don't want to mod the guitar.

[stickyfiddle]

Looks simple enough. Might build a clone in a pedal rather than limiting it to just the one guitar.

[Adam_MD]

Look carefully at Nils Lofgren and Steve van Zandt's Strats - especially at the jack plates - and then Google "Alembic Stratoblaster".

Ive never seen this. I must go talk to Mr Google

[blueskunk]

Nils is a mean player. Great tone all the time

[Steve70s]

Righto. My strat is lovely. It feels nice, plays well and does the Mayer-blues thing really well. But it's quite polite. I keep watching videos of other strat guys- mostly Springsteen's chaps- and they're getting sounds my own strat can only dream of. How do I get near this? Is it a pedal thing?

See 3:30 here:

I always assumed they got the tone from Boss pedals?

[Not_the_DJ]

I always assumed they got the tone from Boss pedals?

I'm ashamed it took me a few seconds to get that!

[stickyfiddle]