La S-500 a un son beaucoup plus moderne / hifi que la Legacy. Si tu veux vraiment le son typique d'un Stratocaster, mieux vaut prendre la Legacy. Mais le mieux reste d'essayer les deux. En tout cas pour ma part, je n'hésiterais pas à choisir une G&L face à une Fender.
Au passage, voici la description des micros équipant la Legacy et la S-500 :
G&L Vintage Style Alnico V 6.4K - 7.0K
Legacy (post-1994), George Fullerton model, neck pickup of ASAT HB
By 1995, G&L began hand winding its own
vintage style alnico pickups for the Fullerton Signature model and they were eventually fitted to the Legacy as well. Like the Duncan SSL pickups, the G&L units have flush polepieces.
The G&L pickups produce bright and glassy Strat tones. The bridge pickup has richer tone than the Duncan counterpart. The in-between sounds do not have as much "latex" to them as the Duncans.
G&L Magnetic Field Design Strat style single coils 4.1K - 4.7K
S-500, SC-3, Nighthawk, Skyhawk, Invader, Interceptor, ASAT III, GbL LE
The G&L MFD Strat style pickups use a
powerful ceramic magnet for increased output with fewer turns of wire.
They are rather quiet for single coils and can easily overdrive a tube amp way before a guitar with alnico pickups could. These are harmonically rich pickups, but the overall tone varies greatly depending on the guitar that they are in. Early style S-500s and all SC-3s tend to sound bright while
these pickups sound darker in Nighthawks, Skyhawks, Invaders, Interceptors and
later style S-500s. Rolling back the treble control on the early S-500s and SC-3s will yield a more conventional sound while rolling back the bass control will do the same for the other models.
Source :
http://www.guitarsbyleo.com/faq.php3#Q2
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