Burlap and Blues, The Blues Blog

One of the biggest drawbacks to having a budget guitar, especially a single coil is the hum that is created whenever you are playing through an overdriven amp. In my experience, too much drive even in positions 2 and 4 with a Squier guitar, there is noticeable hum present. I wanted to see what would happen when you played the AXL with an ultra high gain amp.

The first clip is the AXL SRO Marquee starting with the neck pickup, neck and middle, middle and bridge and then bridge. (positions 1,2,4,5). You can see with the high gain amp, in position 1 there is noticeable hum produced by this guitar.

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Source http://burlapandblues.com/uploads/axl-3.mp3

Surprisingly, though there is little noise in any other position, which is not what I have experienced with the Squier models.

Here is the same amp settings with a Fender Stratocaster Deluxe.

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Source http://burlapandblues.com/uploads/axl-4.mp3

Definitely a silent noiseless guitar.

Tomorrow I will summarize my thoughts on the AXL SRO Marquee series guitar.

A virtualized Mesa-style high gain amp through two separate 4x12 cabinet emulators was used for the sound samples. No noise reduction software was used in either sound sample.