If you are looking for a no-frills guitar for both good distortion/ clean applications, remember the Smash S2 is available at the SV Guitars sale. The guitar is as good as it is, no further mods necessary in terms of electronics. The fact that it's a little more massive than say, the average Squier Strat, implies the good bottom end on board. We sometimes struggle with single coil equipped guitars tone-wise because they tend to be lacking in bottom end but the S2 has a good balance in this light.
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bro, have u tried city music's craftsman guitars? especially the strat, any verdict(s)?
yes i did try them. these are great value-for-money units, no question about that but the default pickups could have been better. my frustration with them is the fact that the tone control couldn't do much to tame the treble as much as i'd like them to be- but it's nothing an orange drop couldn't cure :-)
actually i was quite surprised to learn that craftsman strats have Alder bodies,. Swing and Smash have mahogany bodies right? so craftsman strats are more stratty in terms of tone,. Dhalif has one and made videos with it and it was totally awesome,. but i think in terms of qc and hardware, Swing's are better..
the type of wood used doesn't imply superiority, i think may of us out there are misled by this. just because, for example, Gibson uses mahogany for their guitars' bodies, doesn't make it a superior. so if Rally uses mahogany, we shouldn't be 'surprised' by this. how good the guitar is or how appealing the tone depends on he overall offering of the guitar, not just the wood used.
paul gilbert has a clip of him playing his older white PGM model covering Hendrix's Little Wings- his single coil in there sounds superbly 'Stratty' & that guitar is a basswood model :-o
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