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The SLVs in the neck and middle were very nice at getting a cool, fat lead tone with some decent output. I heard he swapped to passives lately), and it kind of has that Luke vibe going on. This is actually the same combo that Steve Lukather uses (or used to. While most people view it as a neck pickup, it can really help thicken up a thin sounding guitar.
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The EMG 85 in the bridge works quite well for a lot of genres, actually. It had an EMG 85 in the bridge with the SLV neck and middle pickups. The guitar had its pickups swapped for EMGs. I'm not a huge fan fo the radius utilized on these guitars, but it's not a deal killer. The tremolo on this is pretty nice, and the locking tuners help out a ton with this guitar. It almost reminds me of an ESP neck, or maybe I should say ESP necks remind me of Fender necks. The neck on this is a very nice, round C shaped neck that's medium in its overall thickness. The frets on this were in pretty good condition, and I couldn't find any faults with it. It was better than I thought it would look. I really liked how the black body, maple neck and copper pickguard worked on this guitar. Still, it resonated nicely, so I can't take too much away from it. It had some strong weight to it, and I'm not a fan of overly heavy guitars. The guitar was pretty good, but it was slightly heavy. The guitar features an alder body, a one-piece maple neck, 22 frets, dot inlays, a two point tremolo, locking tuners, HSS configuration, one volume, two tones and a five way switch. I guess they feel that these features are only worthy on the American models, but whatever. Today's strats are moving towards being a bit more modern, and the Mexican strats are leaning towards being more vintage-esque. This is pretty much the standard Fender that most people see today.