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Is the new Offset Duo Sonic HS my answer?

Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2016 3:12 pm
by edsdds
So I love the sound of my Les Paul but of course heavy and not the most comfortable when just jamming in the living room. I also have a ton of parts right now looking to build a Strat to cover the single coil sound I am missing but I know I will miss the humbucker. Plus a Strat is a good sized guitar still and a longer scale and a trem I don't use.

Anyway I am really thinking about one of these HS Duos. Here is my only concern and worry. I don't really want to go by pure sounds samples on youtube and I know I won't find one locally, but will the single coil in the neck in a clean setting still sound similar to a classic single coil neck pickup? It will not sound exactly like a Tele or a Strat neck position in clean tone but I would be happy with a Fender clean sound out of it.

Could this little guy cover all of these points?

-Humbucker in bridge for some heavier sounds
-Neck single coil hopefully with Fender classic sound
-Sweet middle position for the in between
-Nice comfy short scale
-No trem to worry about
-Awesome color selections.

Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2016 3:41 pm
by Darth Stang
Personally I would buy a 1956 duo sonic and route it for humbuckers. There has never been such a thing as a short scale with a humbucker and a locked down bridGe. Never existed, never has been done so no one can advise. No one on the site would know anything about such a thing . I would buy the rickenbacker

Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2016 3:19 am
by Ankhanu
Darth is wrong :P
There have been a couple Jaguars with humbuckers and fixed bridges, the Pawn Shop Mustang Special was a double humbucker, fixed bridge model, the Vista Musicmaster was fixed with a humbucker... etc. I don't have a tonne of experience with these models, so can't advise as well as others.

I imagine the single-coil will likely sound kind of similar to a Musicmaster, Swinger, normal Duo-SOnic or similar. Not Strat or Tele like, but good sounds in their own right.

Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2016 6:56 am
by Fakir Mustache
Darth Stang wrote: There has never been such a thing as a short scale with a humbucker and a locked down bridGe. Never existed, never has been done so no one can advise. No one on the site would know anything about such a thing . I would buy the rickenbacker
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Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2016 9:27 am
by speedfish
Used Squier Cyclone. Contoured body more comfortable than slab body. Block the tremolo like Eric Clapton.

Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2016 3:14 am
by singlepup
I've played the Pawn Shop Mustang Special a few times in shops and really liked it. If you're into wide range HBs, that's a great option.

Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2016 4:44 am
by luciguci
I also played with pawn shop mustang and it sounds great, I wanna buy one for myself one day.

Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2016 8:44 am
by jagsonic
Really really like the sound and feeling of my squier cv duosonic. Really really good sofaguitar 8)

For the h-s placement i have a fender cyclone which is very versatile sounding. Both - duo and cyclone don't sound exactly like a tele or strat, but definitively fender-ish...

Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2016 1:18 pm
by Fran
jagsonic wrote:Really really like the sound and feeling of my squier cv duosonic. Really really good sofaguitar 8)

For the h-s placement i have a fender cyclone which is very versatile sounding. Both - duo and cyclone don't sound exactly like a tele or strat, but definitively fender-ish...
The Duo in my avatar is basically a CV model but with a 65 RI Mustang neck and SJAG-II pickups.

I agree, great sofa guitar, but not to be underestimated, it's good enough for gigs. The SJAG pickups are also fairly hot and there isn't any need for a humbucker with them really.

Even if you wanted to play heavy riffs, there are plenty of processors available to tweak the natural sound of these single coils.

Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2016 2:15 pm
by JordanD
I wish I never sold my Squier CV Duo, I loved that guitar but loved having a roof over my head more.

These new Fender offset models are interesting but like most here have said, quite uninspired. I think I know where they're coming from, doing common mods to the guitars and selling them as stock. I don't get why everything has to have 9.5 rad and medium jumbos though.

Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2016 3:16 pm
by speedfish
JordanD wrote:I don't get why everything has to have 9.5 rad and medium jumbos though.

Standardization keeps manufacturing cost down.

Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2016 4:19 pm
by StevePirates
The Jaguar Special HH is a nice guitar, but it is heavy (at least mine is). The Blacktop Jaguars I've tried have been nicely balanced and sounded pretty good.

Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2016 5:46 pm
by dots
hh jags aren't as heavy as les pauls, tho.

Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2016 6:57 pm
by Cymbaline
Remember the PS Mustang isnt a full size Mustang. Sounds great and is a beautiful guitar but I had to send it back because its Ass is too small. SO SO glad I got teh Kurtdz instead, just blocked the trem, same thing with my SS.

BTW recently put a custom gauge set on my SS, holy balls it sounds like a new guitar, chords ring so much truer, tuning stability improved, unwanted slop-bending prevented.
52-38-28-20-16-12. Tension is >9kg and <10kg on every string, that's why I went with these gauges, to get close to the same tension on each string.

Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2016 7:43 pm
by Fran
Thread got me thinking, wish I'd bought one of those Squier Cyclones when they were selling them at around £120. You don't seem to see them now.

Alternatively, THESE look fun to mod.

Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2016 2:40 am
by dots
do it, fran!

Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2016 10:33 am
by Thomas
Fran wrote:Thread got me thinking, wish I'd bought one of those Squier Cyclones when they were selling them at around £120. You don't seem to see them now.

Alternatively, THESE look fun to mod.
I think my mate's still got the one I gave to him. I can always ask if he wants to sell it (I don't think he uses it any more).

Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2016 11:16 am
by NickS
To get this back on track, OP spoke of a single coil in the neck, humbucker at the bridge.

Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2016 11:53 am
by ultratwin
...Which Fender Japan did do a very limited run of a number of years back, a proper single-knob weirdo w/3-way switch.
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Re: Is the new Offset Duo Sonic HS my answer?

Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2016 12:46 pm
by jagsonic
edsdds wrote: Could this little guy cover all of these points?

-Humbucker in bridge for some heavier sounds
-Neck single coil hopefully with Fender classic sound
-Sweet middle position for the in between
-Nice comfy short scale
-No trem to worry about
-Awesome color selections.
for all i know about duos and cyclones i would say yes without having one of these new offsets in my hands...