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Published on 01/04/14 at 10:19I play it for 7 months.
I tried other yamaha models in the same price range:
- Strat classic vibe: true to its very good reputation but not necessarily original (looks, ...);
- Jaguar vintage modified: the most beautiful, all chrome. But very complicated to play (strings moving on the bridge ...) and a hyper nasal sound;
- Jaguar vintage mofified HH: quasi-twin but with the Jazzmaster ... humbuckers (a hyper-biting her hideous). For me, no connection with jaguar (in addition, even tremolo great for surf guitar) ...
This model Jazzmaster is still very particular:
- No vibrato (why??) Or dual settings (which, admittedly, is not used much), different knobs (two volume, two tone ...), and also different locations (the switch, jack in "strat" mode ...) with respect to a classic Jazzmaster;
- A look a bit limited, despite a good finish: including microphones in the same color as the pickguard: what heresy!
I must admit: the label "vintage modified" is specious. There was never any such "original" model of this Jazzmaster.
Goodies:
- The quality of its faults: the extreme simplicity. A hybrid jazzmaster / telecaster in short;
- Maple neck, apparently unprecedented in Jazzmaster. These guitars have kicki 'to be easy to play, but then ... it slips, it will bend at all: it's paradise;
- Sound: rounder than the strat, rich and well bite with distortion. These dishes microphones, what an invention! This is what makes me prefer the Jazzmaster to strat classic vibe, it said. I want to believe that for once, it is in the "vintage" in the sense that the sound is warm and refers to things heard with pleasure on hard 60's (after all depends on the amp).
In conclusion:
Very, good guitar. If I did the quilting, I probably would buy the same. I still regret not having tried the model with vibrato. But it would not have had the maple neck. I guess this is for reasons of production costs ...
Therefore must say that this is a Jazzmaster hybrid species. The price / quality ratio is in my imabatable. € 300 ... Suggest instruments such class small grants (if I may): squier really an activity of public interest!
I tried other yamaha models in the same price range:
- Strat classic vibe: true to its very good reputation but not necessarily original (looks, ...);
- Jaguar vintage modified: the most beautiful, all chrome. But very complicated to play (strings moving on the bridge ...) and a hyper nasal sound;
- Jaguar vintage mofified HH: quasi-twin but with the Jazzmaster ... humbuckers (a hyper-biting her hideous). For me, no connection with jaguar (in addition, even tremolo great for surf guitar) ...
This model Jazzmaster is still very particular:
- No vibrato (why??) Or dual settings (which, admittedly, is not used much), different knobs (two volume, two tone ...), and also different locations (the switch, jack in "strat" mode ...) with respect to a classic Jazzmaster;
- A look a bit limited, despite a good finish: including microphones in the same color as the pickguard: what heresy!
I must admit: the label "vintage modified" is specious. There was never any such "original" model of this Jazzmaster.
Goodies:
- The quality of its faults: the extreme simplicity. A hybrid jazzmaster / telecaster in short;
- Maple neck, apparently unprecedented in Jazzmaster. These guitars have kicki 'to be easy to play, but then ... it slips, it will bend at all: it's paradise;
- Sound: rounder than the strat, rich and well bite with distortion. These dishes microphones, what an invention! This is what makes me prefer the Jazzmaster to strat classic vibe, it said. I want to believe that for once, it is in the "vintage" in the sense that the sound is warm and refers to things heard with pleasure on hard 60's (after all depends on the amp).
In conclusion:
Very, good guitar. If I did the quilting, I probably would buy the same. I still regret not having tried the model with vibrato. But it would not have had the maple neck. I guess this is for reasons of production costs ...
Therefore must say that this is a Jazzmaster hybrid species. The price / quality ratio is in my imabatable. € 300 ... Suggest instruments such class small grants (if I may): squier really an activity of public interest!