The BEST Strat Pickups?

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00:00 - Thankyou!
02:07 - Johnny B Priest
03:20 - RaingerFX
04:31 - Synthwave
06:46 - Sykes is King
08:45 - What Strat Pickups?
13:00 - Ragdoll Tones
14:14 - FX Order
15:54 - 1k amp

[LeonTodd]

What's your favourite pickup combo in a Strat?

[jeremyjohnston]

I've got Suhr pickups in my Strat (HSS) too. 2 V60LPs and a SSH+. I love them now, but they took some getting used to. I've got another Strat with USA 57/62 singles and a Shawbucker, and in comparison the Suhr pickups are really muscular sounding. They're really dynamic, but mostly they just sound huge! SSH+ is pure girth!

Agree completely on the prices of 70s Strats. I've always wanted one, but they're creeping further away all the time. Most are awesome guitars, but to expensive now to mod to your taste. That job belongs to the Amercan Standard now. You can trip over a used one at a good price, medium jumbos and flatter radius boards make it slighty more modern to play, and they're basically indestructible! I've had my 2003 Ash body for a year and its a bit of a brute to play, but its my #1 now. I'm keeping an eye out for others

Great clip again Leon. Thanks for all that you do. Cheers

[geezberry]

i have ML's in my '62 reissue strat. they are the best.

[rutger]

On FX order the most interesting / ambiguous one to me is chorus. I'm used to putting it in the FX loop before delay and reverb, but Euge has a video where he is very adament that it should be before the amp and otherwise sounds like sh*t. Could be a fun thing to explore in a video?

[tanshaomala]

If you get a chance, I highly recommend Wolf and Raven, they got some blistering guitar solos. Check out "On The Run".

[benpeasley]

Hey Leon! So I had my first gig with a new band this past weekend. Learned their whole set list in a week and a half(36 songs). 🥵 Rolled the kemper out too, no problems at all had an amazing night, BUT I’d like to start using an iem unit and haven’t had a lot of experience with them. Would I be able to get by with the cheapest unit I can find? Suggestion on what model? Not even sure I’ll like having something stuffed in my ear all night. Thanks man!

[angelicamagallan]

DI marzio single coils are the best pickups arround the world !!

[tonystartup]

The motion epic, mcRocklin & Hutch and Ultraboss too

[neilmcleish]

Happy WA Day Leon. Thoughts on Eastern States bands/artists headlining WA Day concert this year?

[jesterraj]

HEy good video im looking for a single coil for cente along with the SD distortion i have in the bridge..any recommendations??

[lifeisShort]

Are those p/u's stacked or true single coil?

[briandgrst]

11:00! Heavenly Sparkly Clean tone! Are you using the Fractal here? Pls share your clean preset

[ericolson]

Blasphemous, no doubt, but I sometimes think I enjoy John Sykes more as a lead singer than a lead guitarist. (His rhythm riffing is unassailable, of course.) When I first heard live recordings of him I was impressed by how much he sounded like Lynott on the Lizzy songs and like Coverdale on the Whitesnake songs. Not 'close your eyes and you'd be fooled' level mimicry or anything, but he definitely learned from the best.

[longangrycarrot]

11:00 - when you really get high from the sound!

I've tried Suhr ML's, but they are too compressed for my taste. I prefer Lollar Special S for my HSS strat, with a Lollar Imperial in the bridge. It's a perfect match! But you make anything sound awesome, Leon—a real tone wizard right there!

[jimwatson]

Baddassery with the Ty Tabor licks there, Mr. Todd. You've got some of the best Strat tones around.

[michael_caz_nyc]

Lollar Dirty Blonde Set. Vintage 50's N & M with a Hotter ( less ice picky & higher output ) Bridge single-coil. My tone-search ended . . . finally. oNe LovE from NYC

[guitarnerd_luke]

Suhr Classic S Antiques got the ML Singlecoils. I own two of them..a SSS and a HSS with an Asatobucker. Best new strats imho. Lost every interest in fender cs guitars.

[JeffHendricks]

King's X riffs *never get old*
Never

[TungstenCarlbide]

I discovered John Sykes thru an anime called Black Heaven or somthing like that 😂 his song Cautionary Warning is the theme song!