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Post by brattmoore on Mar 8, 2011 17:59:05 GMT
Hank's sound in this DVD was super FABULOUS ! What pickups did he use please ? Many thanks.
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Post by Charlie Hall on Mar 8, 2011 19:16:18 GMT
Hi brattmoore, I think Hank was using the DiMarzio FS1 in the bridge position at that time. He doesn't use the other pickups much but they were probably Seymour Duncans. Regards, Charlie
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Post by brattmoore on Mar 8, 2011 19:45:18 GMT
Wow ! The DiMarzio FS1 sounds excellent ! Hank used the neck pickup on the song "True love ways" : very sweet. To my ears, it's not the SSL-1 (SSL-5 instead ?). Many thanks Charlie.
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Post by Tone on Mar 9, 2011 13:10:47 GMT
Hi
Charlie's right. Hank was using the 1992 Signature Strat which was fitted with a DiMarzio FS1 in the bridge position. The neck and middle were indeed Seymour Duncan SSL-1s (see Scouser Joe's stickied thread on Hanks Custom Shop guitars on this board for more information).
I have one of these guitars and, as has been said, the sound is great. Of course, Hank subsequently changed the pickups to Kinmans!
Cheers.
Tony
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Post by brattmoore on Mar 9, 2011 16:16:26 GMT
Great ! SSL-1/SSL-1/FS-1!!! Many thanks !!!
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Post by cwam on Apr 26, 2011 22:47:39 GMT
Hi, thanks for the info about the Pickups used on the signature strat - I think this was also the same guitar used on the Hank Plays Live album and DVD and I always thought it sounded really great.
OTOH though it can't be the one used in Liverpool 'cos that was recorded in 1989/90!
If you look carefully you will see that it is not even a Fender neck but was custom made, and the hardware is not gold but silver/chrome. The body is quite chipped as well.
I have one of the tour programmes from that tour (I saw them in Manchester so I wasn't on the DVD!!!) and there is one quite large BW picture of Hank which shows the guitar quite clearly. I think, from memory, it is a 21-fret birdseye maple neck.
But I've been wrong before...!
Thanks,
Colin.
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Post by Simon Underwood on Jul 25, 2011 22:43:30 GMT
I'm fairly sure the guitar was Hank's 1958 Strat with a Roger Giffin neck and, I think, Seymour Duncan pickups. If you watch closely you can also see that there's a chunk of the scratchplate missing by the bass side of the bridge.
I wasn't too impressed with the tone from this, as it seemed to me there wasn't much sustain on the wound strings, almost like flatwounds.
Simon
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Post by fenderplucker on Jul 26, 2011 1:54:14 GMT
Hi Simon,
Hank's 58 Strat still has the original pickups fitted and sounds quite bright compared to the 92 with Seymour Duncans.
Paul.
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