Is HSS Strat better than SSS?
Is HSS Strat better than SSS?
HSS Stratocasters has a humbucker bridge pickup and SSS Stratocasters have single coil bridge pickup. HSS Stratocasters are more suited to high-gain amp settings than SSS Stratocasters, making them better for metal and heavy rock. SSS Stratocasters produces brighter but thinner tones.
Are HSS Strats good for metal?
Fender Stratocaster HSS Simply choosing a Fender Stratocaster with a humbucker and two single-coils (HSS) is a pretty easy way to land a great guitar for metal. You can tick all the boxes mentioned above, including the humbucker you need in the bridge.
What are HSS pickups good for?
By combining a humbucker with two Strat-style single-coils, HSS pickups can offer bell-like single-coil tones, and Dire Straits approved in-between tones. Then you flip to the bridge humbucker for gain-y crunch. And because many modern humbuckers are 4-conductor, you may even have bridge single-coil snap on hand.
What is HSS Fender Strat?
The inspiring sound of a Stratocaster is one of the foundations of Fender. Featuring this classic sound—bell-like high end, punchy mids and robust low end, combined with crystal-clear articulation—the sonically flexible Player Stratocaster HSS is packed with authentic Fender feel and style.
Who plays HSS Strats?
Kirk Hammett used an HSS Strat at a point, he even has an EMG signature HSS set. Andy Timmons uses HSS Strats. Those and the ones the others mentioned are a few. If you think people don’t like the bridge humbucker tone on a Strat just look at EVH and many of the hair metal bands in the 80’s.
What does Stratocaster HSS mean?
So, when you see a guitar described as having an H-S-S arrangement, you’re looking at a Humbucking pickup at the bridge position, a centered single-coil pickup and a single-coil in the neck position.
What does fender HSS stand for?
HSS=Humbucker, single coil, single coil. SSS= single coil, single coil, single coil. Knowing the difference really matters. Hendrix uses SSS, Nirvana usually used a Humbucker style of pickup so that would be HSS.