The Clapton signature Stratocaster has 80 Db boost ( 73 Db boost without the mid boost ). I bought a stock Clapton signature Stratocaster and on just 6 % of my amps Clean channel out of 100 % I hit the roof of the amp at 117 decibels. My normal passive Strat only got 40 decibels. Thats 77 Db boost but hitting the roof of the amp and I knew it had more to give so I tried it on an amp of 125 decibels and with a dicibel reader I got 80 Db boost. Then I used professional fools to measure Db boost as I am an electrician and active cuircuits is something I know this was easily Done. Got the same results 80 Db boost. 80 Db boost which is 80 decibels louder than a passive Stratocaster mean its 256 times louder than a passive Stratocaster. Without mid boost at 73 decibels more its 160 times louder than a passive Stratocaster. Though you can only use it on the Clean channel unless you have a Soldano or Fender Tweed. Other wise the distorted channel immidiately Will shut of the incredibly hot signal and you Will have the same volume as a normal guitar if you play on the distorted channel. The Clapton signature Stratocaster has 1 500 volt output. Thats way too much for the distorted channel to handle. I have a very powerful Amp that can handle 3,50 volts on the distorted channel normal amps can only handle 1-2 volts. But mine can Hadle an EMG 85 or 81 active Humbucker guitar that has 1,5 volt output with a boost pedal that might have up to 2 volt output. But in no way can it handle 1 500 volt output. The Clapton signature Stratocaster uses a very intelligen transistor Voltage boost to get to 1 600 volt for safetety. It has 3 cascaded 2N6429 transistors, discrete op amp topology and a 2N5087 transitor. Thats an enourmous amount of gain in that set up. You have 80 Db boost in the Clapton signature Stratocaster but you can have much more with that setting. The Clapton signature Stratocaster uses its transistor along with the discrete op amp topology and very good and powerful collectors that are perfect for transistor voltage boost on the highest of levels. It also uses the best transistors I have ever seen. The only thing thats passive on the Clapton signature Stratocaster is its Stacked Humbuckers ( Vintage Noiceless). A passive Stratocaster has 0,15 volt output and a passive Gibson Les Paul has 0,20 volt output. So you can understand with 1 500 volt there is an enormous volume difference. As I Said its 256 times louder than a passive Stratocaster at 80 Db boost ( and 256 times louder than a passive Gibson Les Paul as the difference between a passive Stratocaster and a passive Gibson Les Paul is so incredibly small ). Without the mid boost its 160 times louder than a passive Stratocaster and a passive Gibson Les Paul. If you are looking for a normal Stratocaster this is absolutely as far away from it ad you can come. The incredible boost colours the found and the Stacked Humbucker makes it absolutely impossible to sound like a Single coil guitar. Physics does not allow a Humbucker to sound like a single coil. If you want the easily most powerful guitar in the world The Clapton signature Stratocaster is it.
Clapton signature Stratocaster has 80 Db boost
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I still don't understand why Fender never went with 2-segment scratch plates in Strats, the way they did for the Jaguar,and on some Jazzmasters, as well as many basses - one for under the strings and another for the controls. It just strikes me as far more convenient for many types of repairs, mods, servicing. Not for pickup changes, of course.
Perhaps Leo thought/felt that 2 piece pick guards weren't aesthetically pleasing & or that continuing forwards with something used on a prior model wasn't representative of Fender Inc advancing into the future.
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Mind you.... In the picture you posted, my guess is that the powers that be in Japan came up with that idea a number of years after the Strat had been in production. Point being.... When Leo first designed the Strat, the electric guitar was in it's infancy so stuff like a battery compartment for active pick ups didn't even remotely apply. It wasn't until the Strat was into it's adult years active pick ups came about. A friend of mine installed EMG active pick ups in his 1974 Strat back in the early 80s' & IMO it was a significant game changer & notable improvement. Mind you.... The model of pick up he chose moved his Strat away from the traditional Strat sound & gave it a fatter sound. The factory pick ups he had were prone to unwanted feedback & were plain noisy. &....... He still owns that guitar to this day!!🙃
The idea of changing one's pickups from stock, or hot-wiring your guitar, is not really something that came into the popular imagination until the very late '60s or early '70s. So the notion of implementing a 2-piece pickguard, to facilitate that, was not really on anyone's radar for some 15 years after the Strat's inception. And of course, by that time it had become "what a Strat is SUPPOSED to look like". Though you'd think by now that there have been SO many alternate versions of Fender's classic designs, that a 2-piece "modder's delight" might have become available, whilst still maintaining the classic Strat.
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It will operate for much longer than a few seconds. The load is very low...the current flow is very, very low.
Okay... How long may I ask? Hours? Weeks? Days?
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Short answer: hours. It depends on the battery capacity and method of developing the HV.
So is it safe for me to conclude that I could take a Tazer, connect it to a power inverter that would take the output from the Tazer, convert it to 220 AC so I could power an electric oven to cook a 25 pound turkey, mashed potatoes, steam some carrots for dinner & still have power to spare? Better yet power an average sized 1500 square foot home in times of power outages? If that's the case, I'd be suitably impressed!! Here in rural BC power outages are frequent.
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No. It takes a certain amount of energy to do that. If your battery has the energy to to that...yes.So is it safe for me to conclude that I could take a Tazer, connect it to a power inverter that would take the output from the Tazer, convert it to 220 AC so I could power an electric oven to cook a 25 pound turkey, mashed potatoes, steam some carrots for dinner & still have power to spare? Better yet power an average sized 1500 square foot home in times of power outages? If that's the case, I'd be suitably impressed!! Here in rural BC power outages are frequent.
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80db boost in sensitivity only (possibly)
not 80 db boost in output.
There's a difference between sensitivity and gain.
The suggestion that the output is boosted 80db is absurd.
It would overload the living crap out of the amplifier input. It would be non-usable.
It would squeal and ring with feedback completely out of control.
Time to separate fantasy from reality.
Some of you have gone over the cliff with this.
You can't boost an audio signal 80 db and plug it into a guitar amplifier...not possible.
Get real.
not 80 db boost in output.
There's a difference between sensitivity and gain.
The suggestion that the output is boosted 80db is absurd.
It would overload the living crap out of the amplifier input. It would be non-usable.
It would squeal and ring with feedback completely out of control.
Time to separate fantasy from reality.
Some of you have gone over the cliff with this.
You can't boost an audio signal 80 db and plug it into a guitar amplifier...not possible.
Get real.
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The cut and paste post on multiple forums combined with the lack of reply from the OP since would suggest he has some agenda but I’ll be damned if I can figure out what it was. Usually, it would be someone complaining about quality or poor service that would do this.
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The OP wanted to see the commotion created by using a comma, instead of a dot.
Darn!! & here I thought we had a clean alternate energy source right under all of our noses!! BTW.... I've considered getting a Generac generator (runs on propane) for the times our power goes down.
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