Re: eBay scam?

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SteveCherry
"Clean headroom" is what you pay the mega bucks for. Plus, if it's a HSS strat the chances are that, the bridge humbucker (bucker for short) is designed to overdrive the amp. Try the neck pickup (pup for short) and see how loud that will go. Is there master volume on the amp as well as gain?

There's a normal volume and a gain knob and a drive volume. I can get relatively cleans sounds if I mess around but in general it's really crackly. Like annoyingly so. I'm wondering whether it's the cable, the amp or the guitar. I have nothing else to test and compare with. It's no big deal, as it works well enough for the kids to mess with, but I just wanted to know whether something needs repairing or replacing.

The pick-ups all seem to be working and I know that the humbucker is designed to sound dirtier (or whatever the technical term is). Like I say, with the guitar volume lower than 8 it starts to sound really crackly regardless of the switch position and the various amp volume settings.