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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.
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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.
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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.

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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?
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BG wrote:or if too tight, an MX5?
Fixed.
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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.
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stuu wrote:
BG wrote:or if too tight, an MX5?
Fixed.
MX5's are so last year :P
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matman wrote: I understand that their once tight and punchy mids become saggy -
I see what you did there. :lol:

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