Getting a bridge + middle position Strat tone from a LP

[Goat]

Hello! This is my first post on Rig Talk.

Does anyone know the if it is possible to approximate a bridge/middle position Strat tone from a Les Paul? An EQ pedal, maybe? The Paul's I own are: LP Less Plus w/soapbars, and LP Custom w/custom shop Pearly Gates. I have a Strat as well, but I'd like to be able to get that sound with a LP.

 

[vultures]

You could swap volume pots on the bridge and neck with push/pull or push/push pots to split the humbuckers to get single coil tones. It will give you some cool tones to experiment with. Otherwise there really is no way to make a Les Paul sound like a strat, they're build completely different in nearly every way; scale length, pickup location, body woods, pickup routes, neck and fretboard woods, bolt on vs set neck, potentiometer values etc..

 

[ke2]

You could swap volume pots on the bridge and neck with push/pull or push/push pots to split the humbuckers to get single coil tones. It will give you some cool tones to experiment with. Otherwise there really is no way to make a Les Paul sound like a strat, they're build completely different in nearly every way; scale length, pickup location, body woods, pickup routes, neck and fretboard woods, bolt on vs set neck, potentiometer values etc..

It would probably be enough to swap one volume pot, since you can hook up both humbuckers to the one. What OP will lose, it the ability to run one bucker split and the other full, but if the "in between" sound is the only sound he's after, it would be an easier and faster switching.

This is another alternative. If I was to use one LP for those kind of sounds all the time, I'd ditch one of the tone controls, and install this instead. Leave the original switch for cosmetic's sake, but use the dimarzio switch to be able to go from full bridge - both split - full neck.

https://www.emma-music.com/-dimarzio,us ... M05416.cfm

I never use the two full buckers on an LP style. Taste may vary there

 

[cardinal]

If you're handy with something like the Freeway switch, you could wire up both pickups in parallel and "half out of phase," which is a trick that Tele players use to approximate the Strat quack:
https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/ ... er-circuit

Another potential option is the Mooer Tone Captor GTR, which claims to be able to profile or sample guitar tones. If it works, I assume it could be used to sample the Strat quack and then apply the profile over any guitar:
http://www.mooeraudio.com/product/TONE- ... R-227.html

I'm pretty tempted to check out the Mooer thing. It might just be a gimmick, but if it works, that would be fantastic to get my double-hum extended-scale 8-strings to quack and sing like a Strat sometimes.

 

[Goat]

How about this?