![]() ![]() All of that makes for a very heavy and fat midrange tone. He rolls treble off on the bridge pup, all the way off on the Tube driver and usually 68' Marshall's (darker cap than the 69 and later Marshalls but brighter than JTM45s) into closed back 4x12s with the presence all the way off too. Most of the time he has used a 57' (alder) with stock pickups. He used an FS-2 for a while in the 54' but with only one coil connected, the other bucked some of the hum. It was a really special day for all of us, remembers the guitarist. 'Uli Roth had the whole thing down: his technique, his tone, the Hendrixisms mixed with that Euro-classic style of modal playing'' was Kirk Hammett's assessment in Guitar World. Not necessarily at that particular time, and he probably changed pickups over the years, but he certainly did use that bridge pickup at one point (and it's what they used in his Fender signature model, although it's not directly based on his original Strat). Uli Jon Roth returned to the venue, not for the first time but very well perhaps the last, in February 2015 - and his visit was documented for new release Tokyo Tapes Revisited, delving deep inside his five-year stretch in one of the most successful German bands of all time. The second-generation artists, at least, are keenly aware of their debt to Roth and Schenker. ![]() He used to use that combination a lot and it always sounded very 'Stratty'. One of the down-sides of fitting a fatter sounding bridge pick-up is in alters the sound of the bridge/middle combination. Pickups were not the only deviation from design norms that distinguished the ’72 Thinline. I'm pretty sure The Edge's black Strat was stock.
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