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slash-ed wrote:Confused midrange is often referred to as African Mahogany.

I didn't say they were the same thing though.

No you're thinking of Sapelle Corby, that australian drug mule.

thread is bringing the lols

BG wrote:but don't you find they have a confused midrange?

It has plenty of lush upper-mids. Or at least it would if i ever plugged it in.

BG wrote:but don't you find they have a confused midrange?

I'm not a Strat expert by any stretch of the imagination but I understand that those models manufactured before 1980 are particularly prone to midrange crisis.

(it's numerological)

matman wrote:

BG wrote:but don't you find they have a confused midrange?

I'm not a Strat expert by any stretch of the imagination but I understand that those models manufactured before 1980 are particularly prone to midrange crisis.

(it's numerological)

do they suddenly get the urge to buy a porsche? or if too tight, an MR2?

BG wrote:or if too tight, an MX5?

Fixed.

BG wrote:

matman wrote:

BG wrote:but don't you find they have a confused midrange?

I'm not a Strat expert by any stretch of the imagination but I understand that those models manufactured before 1980 are particularly prone to midrange crisis.

(it's numerological)

do they suddenly get the urge to buy a porshce? or if too tight, an MR2?

I understand that their once tight and punchy mids become saggy - accompanied (and possibly caused) by a thinning of finish on the headstock and/or aged springs creating lack of tension and reduced performance of the trem.

stuu wrote:

BG wrote:or if too tight, an MX5?

Fixed.

MX5's are so last year

matman wrote: I understand that their once tight and punchy mids become saggy -

I see what you did there.

kdawg2a wrote: Sometimes its necessary to beat good tone into your Strat!

It's true! The munted ones generally sound best.