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Hi So this is embarrassing. I have just completed an SG-style build on Basschat and clean forgotten about Guitarchat! The build thread is here if anyone is interested in a blow-by-blow and hasn't also been following on Basschat: https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/414021-yew-topped-sg-style-guitar-finished-pic but here are some finished pics: ]

Fender Standard Stratocaster Plus Top Guitar is in really good condition, the only thing to note is that towards the top of the rosewood strip on the back of the neck it doesn't feel quite flush with the rest of the neck. Specs from a PMT listing of a similar guitar Body Type Solidbody Body Shape Stratocaster Left-/Right-handed Right-handed Number of Strings 6 Body Material Alder Top Material Figured Maple Body Finish Polyester Colour Sunburst Neck Material Maple, bolt-on Neck Shape Modern C Fingerboard Material Rosewood, 9.5" radius Fingerboard Inlay Dots Number of Frets 21 Scale Length 25.5" Nut Width 1.650" Nut Material Synthetic Bone Bridge/Tailpiece Synchronized Tremolo Tuners Fender/Ping standard cast sealed tuners Number of Pickups 3 Neck Pickup Standard Strat Single-coil Middle Pickup Standard Strat Single-coil Bridge Pickup Standard Strat Single-coil Controls Volume, tone (neck pickup), tone (middle pickup), 5-way pickup selector

Nice . GLWTS.

Thanks, EZ. And I might just take myself to a guitar shop one day and try out a guitar amp!

If you’re not looking channel switching or valve saturation, I reckon a bass amp is fine. Some of the best guitar tones I’ve heard have come from amps originally designed for bass. If what you’re hearing works for you, then you’re good to go. You can always stick some fx or amp modellers in front of the amp if you want to spice it up a bit. However, full disclosure, I own both bass and guitar amps. Having written this, I’m not sure why I have a guitar amp.

And you try and tell that to the young people of today....

Just a bit of technical background: overdrive covers a huge range of sounds. Fuzz is a particular type of overdrive, characterised by a very fizzy distortion ( @EdwardMarlowe, the unit you're thinking of is called the Fuzz Face more here, a '60s throwback probably best known for being used by Jimi Hendrix but in truth most rock/blues guitarists had one in their rack at around that time: they're still popular today, and despite being a very simple circuit wrapped up in a funky container, '60s originals in good nick go for silly money). Overdrive/distortion/fuzz/high-gain are all terms associated with this type of pedal, and there are almost as many variations on the basic idea as there are guitarists using them. My suggestion would normally be to visit your nearest guitar shop and try a few out in the price range you're looking at. However since that is likely to prove difficult (not to mention risky IMHO) right now, you could do worse than check out some YouTube reviews. They won't really tell you how it will sound with your gear, but they will at least show you some of the common variations, and give a bit of insight into how they work. While I'm here, many guitarists feel that a good valve amp is as far as you need to go with overdrive, but since they're mostly expensive and mostly heavy there's quite a lively market in amp modelling pedals, so you might want to have a look at some of those as well. Here's something to get you started:

I have completely different approach as I''m going for different things. The bass signal chain is set up around dry, effects/bass synth and arpeggiated bass synth. The guitar signal chain is set up around sparkling cleans, crunchy overdrive and midrange meltdown, with or without chorus, delay, reverb and wah.

I use a few affects with my bass guitars and Wah pedal for fun. With my electric guitars I have a large affects board with wah and volume pedals. It’s not been getting much use over the last month since I bought a Boss Katana 100 Mk2 amplifier because it has so many affects built into it and a shed load more if you connect it to a computer and access its tone studio.