I am just starting out and a buddy has a very nice Fender standard strat that he will sell me for a great price. My question is.... I will be playing mostly country mixed with some western swing and maybe some old rock (1950), will I be able to tone down this beast enough to sound right on country. I will be playing it thru a Peavey Rage 158 amp. The strat has 3 single pickups.
Thanks
Bill
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Although lot's of country players use Telecasters, I think if you use number 4 position(neck and middle pickup) clean you'll do fine. For extra credit you could install a push/pull pot to get that bridge and neck Telecaster sound.
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The Tele is very popular with Country players, but so is the Strat. If you have ever heard the awesome guitar on Chris Isaak's "Wicked Games", that is a Strat with lots of reverb and using the tremelo bar. Beautiful. 8)
To get a country tone you will probaby want to upgrade to a better amp in the future, like a good Fender for the beautiful clean tones they produce.
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