DESCRIPTION:
Playing around on my heavily modified Squier Affinity Strat. None of the hardware is stock except for the jackplate and parts of the tremolo. It has Gotoh tuners, a roller string tree, Grpah Tech saddles, CTS/Switchcraft wiring bits, Mighty Mite P-90s, and a dummy coil system I made out of a pickup from a First Act guitar. I wired the dummy coil in parallel so it kills the noise and changes the tone when engaged, which I demonstrate in the video. I go through the neck, N + B, and bridge switch selections without then with the dummy coil. The pickups also are wired in series when both are on. I also blocked the tremolo by running a pair of bolts through the tremolo block to clamp it against the rear of the cavity, similar to the TailFeather system. It's strung with .012-.052 gauge strings in open E.

I am playing it through a Boss CS-3 compressor, a Boss OD-3 overdrive, and a Line 6 Verbzilla set to the "63 Spring" mode. The amp is a new Fender Frontman 212R on the clean channel with the built in reverb off. It's mic'd with a Shure Beta 57A and recorded through my Tascam FW-1804 audio interface into my Macbook Pro using iMove (no sound processing at all, just dry signal).