
Perhaps surprisingly, Crosby says the four were never good co-songwriters, just great singers. But a few days after Seymour Duncan gave the guitar to Beck, the guitarists manager showed up at the Soundhouse with a wild mixture of three guitar bodies and three necks, from which Beck wanted Duncan to pick one as a gift in return. The recording sessions for Lighthouse proved just as fruitful and rapid as the writing. He becomes wistful remembering the 1939 Herringbone he traded for substances during his years in the grips of a $1,000-a-day cocaine and heroin addiction.

But its easy to hear how these settings would work well with detuned guitars or baritones with extra low end that can offset the added sizzle. Compared to the vintage channel, bass response is decreased and midrange content around 900 kHz is pushed to the fore. The guitar had an extremely light weight of only 6 pounds.

Her settings reveal that she still uses the amps reverb even though there are two reverb pedals on her board, though Young does dial out all the amps trem.

In 2004, the Fender Custom Shop released the Jeff Beck Signature Stratocaster with almost identical specs as the 2001 series.
