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"Fat" sounding
Just wondering what exactly does it mean when a guitar is "fat" sounding?
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meaning that it sounds full and lush.
If you listen to a Les Paul vs a Strat the, the LP will sound more full whereas the latter is thinner sounding. |
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My strat has single coil V-mods and each pickup produces a vastly different tone to the others |
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Not if you use flatwound 12's, deck the trem, and use a 5-spring setup, the way Leo shipped them in 1954 - clean, clear, smooth in all positions, and not thin or metallic at all...
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I've had every Strat I've ever owned wired this way. Never liked the "icepick in the ear" tone of the standard Strat bridge pup sound. |
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If your bridge pickup sounds "thin", you may need to raise it a bit. Trebly, jangly or bright is normal - "thin" isn't.
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Don't get me wrong. I'd love to own a strat one day. Gotta love those glassy cleans
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Very subjective term, but “you know it when you hear it”! Remember, an electric guitar is 1/3 of the tone equation. Theres the amp, and and pedals/modelers too. If I was pressed to define fat tones, I would say “billy gibbons”...whether hes playing a LP, V, or vintage Esquire!
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The early Strat pups were wound very thin and had low output. That tone can be heard on a lot of songs recorded during those years. The bridge is particularly good for cutting through while playing rhythm chord “stabs” in certain songs.
Since I already own a Tele with an overwound single coil bridge and 5/16” magnets, I really like that Strat bridge sound. Those sets also produced the “glassiest” Strat tones in the second and fourth position...heavenly! BTW, one of John Mayer’s Strats has these pups in it and he uses it a lot. Here’s a great demo...
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That Robben Ford "Talk to Your Daughter" tone comes to mind...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM0CWfVZczY Last edited by guitararmy; 04-06-2021 at 01:18 PM. |
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Bridge pickup - thin
Neck pickup - fat Picking up over the fretboard fattens the sound too. I think fat means mid/bass emphasis. |
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Like most metaphoric adjectives applied to sound, there's an element of "it means what I think it means" to it.
To some it means more lower end and low mids in the sound's EQ profile. To others it means a broader sustain/decay envelope To others it means the different overtone mix when a guitar is picked nearer the neck. To some it means the broader length of string sensed by a wider pickup or by two pickups.
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The first thing that comes to my mind for a “fat” guitar tone is Duane Allman, quintessentially on “Blue Sky”. If you could eat that sound it would spike your cholesterol (and it would be worth it!).
Another good example would be Clapton on “Spoonful”.
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