Is the AL really a strat killer??

[brokenvail]

Here are two more Al vids

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tHn6mf8vA4"]YouTube - Funk De Nite - Bodymusic - Jacek Królik guitar solo[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbO7J5OH9V0"]YouTube - Funk De Nite - Bumpus - Jacek Królik guitar solo[/ame]

 

[John Price]

John,

I'll echo the posts Lionel (Whitestrat) and Rob made on page 1 of this thread (posts #2 and #3 to be exact):

The AL is your ash body/maple fingerboard early 50s Strat tone - more bright, brassy/bell like. The Silo Special is your alder-body 60s Strat tone - a little warmer and woodier. Also outside of Dargies and some of the LEs you can't get a rosewood board on an AL; if you want rosewood you're looking at the Silo Special.

Neither is exactly a Strat, but they are in the same family so to speak.

EDIT:
Grain of salt mention - the AL I owned was an MM-90 model; but I've had 2 rosewood board Silo Specials (and I would love to get my 2007 LE Silo Special back).

Sorry about that! I do remember reading This! I just figured that being that the 2 guitars are very different in shape that it would have an impact on how the guitar sounds and feels and someone would have a preference over one or the other..... I just purchased a SS last week H/S/S and can't get over how Beautiful this guitar really is and since it replaced my other guitar that had S/S/S setup I was curious if I should get another SS or try the AL to fill that application......

 

[John C]

Sorry about that! I do remember reading This! I just figured that being that the 2 guitars are very different in shape that it would have an impact on how the guitar sounds and feels and someone would have a preference over one or the other..... I just purchased a SS last week H/S/S and can't get over how Beautiful this guitar really is and since it replaced my other guitar that had S/S/S setup I was curious if I should get another SS or try the AL to fill that application......

Since you have an HSS Silo Special then I would consider the AL just to get a broader tonal difference - between the ash body and the single coil in the bridge it will get you further away from the HSS SS. The caveat is the neck shape - the AL has a slightly deeper neck than the Silo Special.

 

[Astrofreq]

Rest assured, if you dont like the AL you must not have a pulse.

But if you don't like the body shape, then you have taste.

 

[Ripper]

(and I would love to get my 2007 LE Silo Special back).

You better, John. You are making me very lonely here.

 

[Norrin Radd]

But if you don't like the body shape, then you have taste.

True. Poor taste is still taste.

 

[robelinda2]

But if you don't like the body shape, then you have taste.

Ready...aim...fire......

or alternatively, I sentence you to a torture room with nothing but a cd player and one Nickleback cd, permanently on!

The ALOC has more resources than the FBI.....

 

[robelinda2]

Here are two more Al vids

YouTube - Funk De Nite - Bodymusic - Jacek Królik guitar solo

YouTube - Funk De Nite - Bumpus - Jacek Królik guitar solo

Always loved those vids, great rockin tones, and cool phrasing too!

 

[Astrofreq]

Ready...aim...fire......

or alternatively, I sentence you to a torture room with nothing but a cd player and one Nickleback cd, permanently on!

The ALOC has more resources than the FBI.....

HA! I was just waiting for you to chime in.

 

[skerwo]

...with nothing but a cd player and one Nickleback cd, permanently on!
.....

Oh no, that´s too heavy, don´t do it or Amnesty International will set you on their list of bad guys .


Rainer

 

[GWDavis28]

Great news! My question next question: Will it be two humbucker have the same route as the three humbucker version? I'd love the option of sticking a single coil in the middle!

Doubt, from the way they route the Silo Special, SSS or SSH, the SSS is only routed for SSS. That would be my guess.

Glenn |B)

 

[threeminutesboy]

Doubt, from the way they route the Silo Special, SSS or SSH, the SSS is only routed for SSS. That would be my guess.

Glenn |B)

My Silo Special was a SSS but was routed HSS and think that the way it's still done nowadays

 

[robelinda2]

Yepo my silo specials are all SSH routed, even my BFR from this year.

 

[Sub1 Zero]

or alternatively, I sentence you to a torture room with nothing but a cd player and one Nickleback cd, permanently on!

I'm going to have nightmares tonight... *shudder*

 

[jamminjim]

A threee humbucker route is probably darn near a swimming pool rout. More like the routing on the Silhouette. Not quite swim pool, but not far off.