Do I need a Fender Stratocaster to get these tones?

No. GuitarToneAdapt models how a Fender Stratocaster shapes the sound and compensates so you can get close on your own guitar and rig — free, in the browser.

What songs used a Fender Stratocaster?

Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love by Van Halen, Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana, Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd, Layla by Derek & The Dominos, Time by Pink Floyd, Basket Case by Green Day, Sultans of Swing by Dire Straits, When I Come Around by Green Day, and more.

Fender Stratocaster — Songs, Tones & Settings

Songs whose original tone used a Fender Stratocaster. Don’t own one? GuitarToneAdapt re-creates the sound on the guitar and rig you actually have.

The Stratocaster’s three single-coil pickups give it a bright, glassy, slightly scooped voice with a percussive attack and that famous “quack” in the in-between positions. The alder/maple body keeps it snappy and clear. Because single-coils are lower-output and brighter than humbuckers, a Strat needs more gain and less treble than a humbucker guitar to hit the same recorded tone — exactly what GuitarToneAdapt compensates for.

Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love — Van Halen Smells Like Teen Spirit — Nirvana Comfortably Numb — Pink Floyd Layla — Derek & The Dominos Time — Pink Floyd Basket Case — Green Day Sultans of Swing — Dire Straits When I Come Around — Green Day Mayonaise — The Smashing Pumpkins Purple Rain — Prince & The Revolution Beat It — Michael Jackson Breathe (In the Air) — Pink Floyd Echoes — Pink Floyd Today — The Smashing Pumpkins Pour Some Sugar On Me — Def Leppard Purple Haze — The Jimi Hendrix Experience Slow Dancing in a Burning Room — John Mayer Another Brick In the Wall, Pt. 2 — Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here — Pink Floyd Hey You — Pink Floyd Pride and Joy — Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble Women In Love... — Van Halen Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Pts. 1-5 — Pink Floyd Everybody Talks — Ax and the Hatchetmen Beauty and a Beat (feat. Nicki Minaj) — Justin Bieber Say It Ain't So (2024 Remaster) — Weezer Hole In the Earth — Deftones Ah — Duman Santeria — Sublime Hey Barbara — IV OF SPADES One More Light — LINKIN PARK Take Me Away (from Freaky Friday) — Lash Lithium — Nirvana Let It Be — The Beatles Comfortably Numb (Live at Pompeii 2016) — David Gilmour Layla — Eric Clapton Moonlight on the River — Mac DeMarco Knock Me Down — Red Hot Chili Peppers Summer Of '69 — Bryan Adams All Along the Watchtower — The Jimi Hendrix Experience 115 (Remastered) — Kevin Sherwood & Elena Siegman Deck Wine — Marietta Teenage Dirtbag — Wheatus Get Down Tonight — KC and the Sunshine Band Decode — Paramore Rape Me — Nirvana Hunger Strike — Temple of the Dog The Way You'd Love Her — Mac DeMarco Sobredosis de T.V. — Soda Stereo Kryzysowa narzeczona — Lady Pank High Hopes — Pink Floyd Don't Look Back in Anger (Remastered) — Oasis Heavy Metal (Takin' a Ride) — Don Felder Today — The Smashing Pumpkins The Number of the Beast (2015 Remaster) — Iron Maiden Call Me — Blondie Babydoll — Dominic Fike Drown (Edit) — The Smashing Pumpkins Yellow Ledbetter — Pearl Jam Lenny — Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble (Anesthesia)—Pulling Teeth — Metallica With or Without You — U2 Smoke on the Water (2024 Remaster) — Deep Purple Cárcel, Hospital & Cementerio — Los Tres Atom Heart Mother — Pink Floyd Oh! Tengo Suerte — Masayoshi Takanaka The Emptiness Machine (Instrumental) — LINKIN PARK Comfortably Numb — Pink Floyd Dogs — Pink Floyd Eruption — Van Halen Senhor e Rei — Davi Sacer & Trazendo a Arca So Far Away — Sultans Of Swing (dire Straits Sound-a-like)Dracula — Tame Impala You Really Got Me — Van Halen Under the Bridge — Red Hot Chili Peppers Dios imparable — Marcos Witt Daughter (Remastered) — Pearl Jam Preludio Obsesivo — Rata Blanca Noah's Highlight Reel — Dijon This Is the One (Remastered 2009) — The Stone Roses Hey You — Pink Floyd Steppin' Razor — Sublime Sultans of Swing (Live at Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK, 1983) — Dire Straits So Por Uma Noite — Charlie Brown Jr.Won't Fall in Love Today — Suicidal Tendencies להיות אדם — Zohar Argov Desert Rose — Eric Johnson Big Poppa — The Notorious B.I.G.Out Like a Light — The Honeysticks, Ricky Montgomery & Caleb Hurst Cosmic Girl — Jamiroquai But Me — Ty Myers The House Is Rockin' — Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble Stress Relief — late night drive home Enhjørning (Remastered 2015) — Dumdum Boys She's a Beauty — The Tubes Plump — Hole Drown (Edit) — The Smashing Pumpkins Last Surprise — Lyn Cliffs of Dover (Live) — Eric Johnson Boys Don't Cry — The Cure Beggin' — Måneskin Bad Habit — Steve Lacy good 4 u — Olivia Rodrigo Cocaine — Eric Clapton Manhattan — Eric Johnson Trademark — Eric Johnson Zap — Eric Johnson Lonely Boy — The Black Keys Wonderwall — Oasis Don't Look Back in Anger — Oasis Champagne Supernova — Oasis Born to Be Wild — Steppenwolf Magic Carpet Ride — Steppenwolf The Trooper — Iron Maiden Run to the Hills — Iron Maiden Misirlou — Dick Dale Eye of the Tiger — Survivor My Sharona — The Knack Barracuda — Heart Livin' on a Prayer — Bon Jovi Africa — Toto Voodoo Child (Slight Return) — The Jimi Hendrix Experience Californication — Red Hot Chili Peppers White Room — Cream Highway Star — Deep Purple Breaking the Law — Judas Priest Mr. Brightside — The Killers Wanted Dead or Alive — Bon Jovi You Give Love a Bad Name — Bon Jovi It's My Life — Bon Jovi Fear of the Dark — Iron Maiden Hallowed Be Thy Name — Iron Maiden Where the Streets Have No Name — U2 Reptilia — The Strokes Texas Flood — Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble Go Your Own Way — Fleetwood Mac Brutal — Olivia Rodrigo Le Freak — Chic Life in the Fast Lane — Eagles Tempo Perdido — Legiao Urbana Matador — Los Fabulosos Cadillacs Time of Our Life — DAY6 You Were Beautiful — DAY6 Congratulations — DAY6 Gruppa Krovi — Kino Ulitsa Roz — Aria Igra s ognyom — Aria Sugar Song and Bitter Step — UNISON SQUARE GARDEN Fukagyaku Replace — MY FIRST STORY Wonderful Tonight — Eric Clapton Bad Medicine — Bon Jovi Sunday Bloody Sunday — U2 Brothers in Arms — Dire Straits Reelin in the Years — Steely Dan Black Star — Yngwie Malmsteen Angel of Death — Slayer All Along the Watchtower — Jimi Hendrix Highway Star — Deep Purple Cliffs of Dover — Eric Johnson Little Wing — Jimi Hendrix Money — Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here — Pink Floyd Voodoo Child (Slight Return) — Jimi Hendrix Pride and Joy — Stevie Ray Vaughan Purple Haze — Jimi Hendrix Sweet Home Alabama — Lynyrd Skynyrd Sil Baştan — Şebnem Ferah Ben Böyleyim — Athena Photograph — Def Leppard Machine Gun — Jimi Hendrix Cold Shot — Stevie Ray Vaughan Couldnt Stand the Weather — Stevie Ray Vaughan Red House — Jimi Hendrix I Cant Quit You Baby — Otis Rush Cocaine — Eric Clapton Even Flow — Pearl Jam Cherub Rock — The Smashing Pumpkins All the Small Things — blink-182 Whats My Age Again — blink-182 Self Esteem — The Offspring Come Out and Play — The Offspring Fat Lip — Sum 41 Sugar Were Goin Down — Fall Out Boy Scar Tissue — Red Hot Chili Peppers By the Way — Red Hot Chili Peppers Snow (Hey Oh) — Red Hot Chili Peppers Last Nite — The Strokes Someday — The Strokes No Woman No Cry — Bob Marley Three Little Birds — Bob Marley Could You Be Loved — Bob Marley Is This Love — Bob Marley One Love — Bob Marley Round and Round — Ratt Jump — Van Halen Runnin with the Devil — Van Halen Gravity — John Mayer Cruel Angels Thesis — Neon Genesis Evangelion Unravel — TK from Ling tosite sigure Smoke on the Water — Deep Purple Voodoo Child (Slight Return) — The Jimi Hendrix Experience The Rock Show — Blink-182 Walk Dont Run — The Ventures Super Freak — Rick James Cemalim — Erkin Koray Şaşkın — Erkin Koray Dağlar Dağlar — Barış Manço Yağmur — Yavuz Çetin Cause Weve Ended as Lovers — Jeff Beck Nemo — Nightwish Ice Queen — Within Temptation Truckin — Grateful Dead Damn Right Ive Got the Blues — Buddy Guy Legalize It — Peter Tosh

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