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edsdds · . Joined: 02 Dec 2015 Posts: 5 Location: Minnesota

So I love the sound of my Les Paul but of course heavy and not the most comfortable when just jamming in the living room. I also have a ton of parts right now looking to build a Strat to cover the single coil sound I am missing but I know I will miss the humbucker. Plus a Strat is a good sized guitar still and a longer scale and a trem I don't use.

Anyway I am really thinking about one of these HS Duos. Here is my only concern and worry. I don't really want to go by pure sounds samples on youtube and I know I won't find one locally, but will the single coil in the neck in a clean setting still sound similar to a classic single coil neck pickup? It will not sound exactly like a Tele or a Strat neck position in clean tone but I would be happy with a Fender clean sound out of it.

Could this little guy cover all of these points?

-Humbucker in bridge for some heavier sounds
-Neck single coil hopefully with Fender classic sound
-Sweet middle position for the in between
-Nice comfy short scale
-No trem to worry about
-Awesome color selections.

Darth Stang · . Joined: 17 Jan 2016 Posts: 163

Personally I would buy a 1956 duo sonic and route it for humbuckers. There has never been such a thing as a short scale with a humbucker and a locked down bridGe. Never existed, never has been done so no one can advise. No one on the site would know anything about such a thing . I would buy the rickenbacker

Ankhanu · . Joined: 10 Nov 2009 Posts: 2857 Location: Nova Scotia

Darth is wrong Razz

There have been a couple Jaguars with humbuckers and fixed bridges, the Pawn Shop Mustang Special was a double humbucker, fixed bridge model, the Vista Musicmaster was fixed with a humbucker... etc. I don't have a tonne of experience with these models, so can't advise as well as others.

I imagine the single-coil will likely sound kind of similar to a Musicmaster, Swinger, normal Duo-SOnic or similar. Not Strat or Tele like, but good sounds in their own right.
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speedfish · . Joined: 27 Oct 2011 Posts: 1141

Used Squier Cyclone. Contoured body more comfortable than slab body. Block the tremolo like Eric Clapton.
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singlepup · . Joined: 10 Dec 2010 Posts: 4014 Location: San Diego

I've played the Pawn Shop Mustang Special a few times in shops and really liked it. If you're into wide range HBs, that's a great option.

daftsupernova · Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2016 4:44 am Post subject:

I also played with pawn shop mustang and it sounds great, I wanna buy one for myself one day.
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jagsonic · . Joined: 28 Dec 2009 Posts: 757 Location: Germany

Really really like the sound and feeling of my squier cv duosonic. Really really good sofaguitar Cool

For the h-s placement i have a fender cyclone which is very versatile sounding. Both - duo and cyclone don't sound exactly like a tele or strat, but definitively fender-ish...
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JordanD · Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2016 2:15 pm Post subject:

I wish I never sold my Squier CV Duo, I loved that guitar but loved having a roof over my head more.

These new Fender offset models are interesting but like most here have said, quite uninspired. I think I know where they're coming from, doing common mods to the guitars and selling them as stock. I don't get why everything has to have 9.5 rad and medium jumbos though.

speedfish · . Joined: 27 Oct 2011 Posts: 1141

StevePirates · . Joined: 24 Mar 2007 Posts: 687 Location: Reno

The Jaguar Special HH is a nice guitar, but it is heavy (at least mine is). The Blacktop Jaguars I've tried have been nicely balanced and sounded pretty good.
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dots · Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2016 5:46 pm Post subject:

hh jags aren't as heavy as les pauls, tho.
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Cymbaline · . Joined: 22 Feb 2012 Posts: 214

Remember the PS Mustang isnt a full size Mustang. Sounds great and is a beautiful guitar but I had to send it back because its Ass is too small. SO SO glad I got teh Kurtdz instead, just blocked the trem, same thing with my SS.

BTW recently put a custom gauge set on my SS, holy balls it sounds like a new guitar, chords ring so much truer, tuning stability improved, unwanted slop-bending prevented.
52-38-28-20-16-12. Tension is >9kg and <10kg on every string, that's why I went with these gauges, to get close to the same tension on each string.

Fran · Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2016 7:43 pm Post subject:

Thread got me thinking, wish I'd bought one of those Squier Cyclones when they were selling them at around £120. You don't seem to see them now.

Alternatively, THESE look fun to mod.
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dots · Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2016 2:40 am Post subject:

do it, fran!
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Thomas · . Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3172 Location: Glasgow, UK

NickS · Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2016 11:16 am Post subject:

To get this back on track, OP spoke of a single coil in the neck, humbucker at the bridge.

ultratwin · Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2016 11:53 am Post subject:

...Which Fender Japan did do a very limited run of a number of years back, a proper single-knob weirdo w/3-way switch.

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jagsonic · . Joined: 28 Dec 2009 Posts: 757 Location: Germany