5 things I hate about the Strat...

[Music] so i was casually browsing the internet when i stumbled upon this headline i don't see why people like telecasters so much to me the strata is a lot better and more playable than a tele wait did i read that correctly yes i did it was robbie krieger guitarist of the doors basically saying strats on telly's and this made me think is the strat really that much better than italian so this strat has been my number one guitar for the past three years i can say and before that i guess it was this thread i like strats it's almost the perfect guitar not quite since the past year or so i feel like i'm leaning towards tellies more and more so when i saw that headline saying stress are more playable and better i thought wait a second i really don't agree there's definitely a few things about stress that just bug me or annoy me ever so often so here's five things i don't really like about stress and why i think in some circumstances a telly is actually better so i'm sure anyone with a strat can relate you're rocking out feeling it and then suddenly your guitar sounds totally different what happened oops i did it again we flicked that pickup switch by accident that is because it is exactly where your hand goes when you're strumming that baby it's just like looking there it's just below your i just don't get it i totally get it it's easy having that switch somewhat in reach for that super quick pickup change but i rather have a little more difficulty flicking it on purpose than ever hitting it by accident basically like the way it is on a telly i really don't see the problem just move your hand a little bit forward there's enough room over there dude yeah that is an option but changing where you pick the strings also changes the sound dress sometimes you want that little more mellower sound playing closer to the neck and sometimes that more focused sound of playing a little bit more behind at the bridge and a lot of times you want to play in the middle exactly above that switch and that very switch brings me to point number two so this is actually two points i want to make but both about tone so we'll just cramp it into one we know the sonic possibilities of the strats are huge but regardless of the setting there's one aspect that's just very hard to deal with if you play in a band i'm sure you've been there before soundcheck you're down in your perfect tone oh yeah there it is large full creamy just the right amount of whatever it is you're after but then the band joins in and you wonder what happened to that incredible tone you just dialed in so somehow the sound of strat is just pretty hard to be heard in a busy mix it doesn't really cut through the mix as they say anyway not nearly as easy as a telly there's been so many times where i had a great sound on stage doubted my abs my pedals i was really feeling it but then when the soundcheck started i was just like hey where's my guitar so in order to be heard properly you want to dial it up which always annoys the sound guy the singer the sex player people screw those guys a guitar needs to be loud yeah but in order to be a good band member you always got to make sure everyone is comfortable playing with you if not it can be your last show and now to point number two of this second point you can just totally forget it when you switch to that position two or four on the pickup switch the infamous in-between setting it just kills the guitar in a mix in total [Music] when playing by yourself or maybe with a trio it isn't that much of an issue but the frequencies that make you stand out are just not really there so if you're playing in a band with maybe two guitarists or a key player you need to put a lot of effort in sculpting your tone so you can be heard i remember playing in a band with a strat for two years straight and then one day i brought my telly and i was just shocked with how easy it was to cut through the mix i wasn't really a louder i just heard myself much clearer and better which is really essential if you want to play good okay so this one is a little bit love and hate relationship and it's the position of the volume part so where it's at opens up the possibility to play beautiful swells like so and it's easily accessible which is handy if you want to clean up your signal or use it to just change the volumes on the fly but so often i accidentally turn the volume down without even knowing i did it and it happened to me so often that i developed a very annoying habit of just always turning up the volume even when it's up high already just checking constantly if it's at 10. it's almost well it is a tick basically it's very annoying and part of this is because on that very threat the pot moves very easily there is almost no friction whatsoever so when i touch it or when i even look at it it moves also often when you want to play a little bit more at the bridge because it sounds just a little bit more snappy over there you've just got a you just got a free built-in eq in the guitar but just changing where you pick the sun is coming in it's so hot by the way i'm sweating it's just nine o'clock in the morning and it's already there's a heat wave going on but anyway when you want to play at the bridge your fingers just hang a little bit over those volume [Music] it's pods in the way of course we can work around it but it's not super comfortable you know what is doing palm mutes on a telly there's nothing in the way and i just play a little bit more easily when there's nothing in the way but we're not there yet because there's that elephant in the room we need to address the strat can have some serious issues when it comes down to tuning stability and 99 of those issues are probably due to that whammy bar you see in almost every strat so when it comes to it so many strat players almost never use it at all because doing anything other than just a little vibrato on the strat and you're bound to tune it again and they tried fixing it on this thread for example there's locking tuners there's upgraded bridge two points whatever so it's more stable but in the end i tried it for a while but to me the downsides just outweigh the upsides and also when you break a string you can just totally forget it your entire tuning gets messed up so finishing a song without that one string is not happening if you want to have a guitar that never lets you down and you're not really a whammy kind of guy the best advice is just get rid of those issues and fix the bridge by either some springs in the back or a block of wood so then why not save yourself some trouble grab a tally and get some twang for free and the last thing i hate that no matter what in the end i'll always come back to you i can never put you down you're just so comfortable so nice to hold the weight the balance between a simple design and yet so many options so easy to do your own maintenance and the tone is just so lush and recognizable but that also is the danger because playing what you've heard so many times the stride has more character than any other guitar if you ask me you can never be mistaken if what you're hearing is a strat or not so you're bound to play it like a strat how you remember it from all the records you listened to and all the legends that played this instantly for you instead of cooking up your own sounds your own tone your own style it's easy to sound like any other strat guy but it's hard to to develop your own sounds and of course you can break loose from that stigma but in my idea it's a little easier on the telly to create your own signature sounds because the bass you start off with it's just a little less colored by itself if you understand what i mean so what do you think about all of this i'd love to see your comments and i asked around on instagram too and paul anodine the majority not agreeing with robbie's statement but still there's 41 percent agreeing that strats own teles and i get it because the strat was basically designed as the tele 2.0 but in doing that leo fender basically designed a totally new instrument totally different instrument with different advantages different sounds and also a couple of new disadvantages if you ask me anyway the point of this video is definitely not to really hate on the strat or to tell you that the telly is better but more that there's no bad guitars already there will always be debates about this versus that and which one is better but the truth is for each guitar there's the perfect application so saying one is better than the other it's just a very weird statement since it's it's all just very subjective but i do really like talis though but it's gonna take more than that to separate us don't worry have a lovely day thank you so much for watching and love your instrument it's a very good one probably so cheers

Channel: Paul Davids

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Keywords: stratocaster, paul davids, telecaster, strat, tele, strat vs tele, tele vs strat, Fender, video, davids, robby krieger, the doors, which is better, 5 things, 5 things I hate, battle, stratocaster vs telecaster, les paul, guitar model, best guitar model, best guitar, best strat, best tele, whammy, volume pot, in between settings, cut through the mix, tone, strat tone

Id: rWQf9n2zWvo

Length: 9min 18sec (558 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 11 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/Hit_it_and_Qu1t_it]

True toan is born out of pain and inconvenience. Strat is for punks who like a guitar that stays in tune and has cool controls, not people who wanna feel the blooze