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Fender stratocaster third string (g) vibration at neck pick up?

I purchased a custom shop stratocaster,the problem,the third (g) string sounds terrible at the neck pick up at 4-10 on tone dial at the 12 fret,with the tone dial at 2 it sounds great with a nice steady note instead of the ping/ring vibration sound at 4-10,this happens when using just a little distortion and drive,ok in clean.no other strings or other pick up position does this,using a new mesa lonestar special,took everything to the dealer,amp is good,cable good,tried diffrent brand strings(using pure nickle)strat was pro set up by a fender warranty depot,fender dealer tried a new strat and amp,same problem,his buddies custom strat same problem, all excellent musician with knowledge,should I use fender superbullets ? why only this string only ?trying to get SRV tone,he played in the neck pick position at 10 on tone,I am using 11-50 gauge 1/2 step down. thanks

I used to set up with Fender & Gibson and the STRING has nothing to do with what is happening. Ridiculous if you ask me. The problem resides in the neck pickup and the wounding around it. The tone pots is another issue.

Stevie Ray used 500k pots which gives more tone and more output than the original Fender. Don’t kid yourself, many guitarist do things that have nothing to do with factory settings. If you want the SRV sound, get a Seymour Duncan at the bridge, and it will solve your problems. The magnet on the G-string on the fender neck pickups are all the same. DEFECTIVE and UNBALANCED. and mass produced which means all the Fender in your category will have the same problem.

You have to understand that the electric guitar depends on the pickup-ups to pick up the string vibrations and you need the amp for power. You even said it, when you set to 4-10, it is krap. Change the tone pots to 500k and you are set. Nothing to LOSE and Everything to GAIN if you get the pun

Fender Custom Shop Total Tone 57 Strat