SeriesFender American Special Stratocaster

Fender Stratocaster is a great fantastic instrument for pretty much any style of music. Fender strats' balance guitar mixes very well with pretty much anything from blues rock all the way up to metal sounding guitar tones. This guitar features three single coil pickups and a line with a volume control knob and two tone control knobs. You also get a five way pickup selector that allows you to pick up each individual pickup or the positions in between. It's not that extremely versatile of the nutriment but hearing the different tones you get from the bridge all the way to the next gives you a variety of total options. But if you compared to some modern guitars with switches or push pull pots to split coils this guitar doesn't really do any of that. It's just pretty much a straightahead rock 'n roll instrument. UTILIZATION Fender American Special Stratocaster HSS Solidbody Electric Guitar Features: Body: Alder Finish: 3-color Sunburst, Gloss Urethane Neck: Maple, Modern "C" Shape Fingerboard: Rosewood Frets: 22, Jumbo Frets Scale Length: 25.50" Nut Width: 1.69" Hardware: Chrome Tuning Keys: Fender Standard Cast/Sealed Tuning Machines Bridge: Vintage Style Synchronized Tremolo Pickguard: 3-Ply Black/White/Black Pickups: 1 Atomic Humbucking Pickup (Bridge), 2 Texas Special Strat Pickups (Neck/Middle) Pickups 5-Position Blade Master Volume Tone 1: (Neck Pickup), Greasebucket Tone Circuit (Rolls Off Highs without Adding Bass) Tone 2: (Bridge Pickup), Greasebucket Tone Circuit (Rolls Off Highs without Adding Bass) Case: Deluxe Gig Bag included SOUNDS No matter what amplifier setting or effects you have this guitar is going to sound great. If you using a load of effects to get an ambient type sound and this is could be a great guitar for that sound. If you using a medium to high gain amplifier than this guitar will give you the great sustained and feel for getting that every ay lead tones. The matter what you can use with this guitar is really get compliment your existing guitar rig quite nicely. Overall this is a very solid guitar and will be a instrument that will go great on any recording or live gigging situation. OVERALL OPINION You can find these guitars pretty much anywhere you find musical instruments. You can find them online or in most retailer shops around the world. Most of the guitars come in new right around $1000 or so. Depending on the features in the extras they come along can determine if you hundred dollars or so. But you can bet on this is going to be a great instrument that will have a fantastic feel and balance. I highly recommend this guitar to any guitarist out there because it is a very versatile instrument and as a fantastic tone for any stylus music.

Intro/Context: Fender American Special Stratocaster SSS in surf green with mapple fingerboard. I'm a Strat guy, this is my 4th strat and by far my favorite to date. I went to the shop wanting to buy my new main axe with a large enough budget to come out of the shop with a deluxe american Strat if that's what suited me.After testing Standard, Deluxe, AS Strats for a few hours (yes I'm that annoying kind of customer) I decided to buy the American Special for 2 reasons: -Surf Green is life and a paint job is more expensive than changing the tremolo and the pots (if you, as I, don't like greasebuckets) -The sheer sound of the instrument, the pickups play a role, for sure, but I had an immediate crush on the sound of that particular guitar and at the end of the day this made the choice obvious for me. Keep in mind while reading that I had that "near perfect match" feel and that, as I try to keep it objective I'm talking about a guitar I really love and can't go by it without saying "what a beauty" even more than one year after the purchase. I mainly play it on a Fender Blues Jr with a RC Booster into an English Muff'n wich is almost all the time activated and sometimes on a Ashdown Fallen Angel on the saturated channel I play mostly bluesy stuff from Hendrix to SRV but I also like to shred a little and play hard rock stuff. workmanship, electronics, and finish The finish is really good, well assembled with a seemingly fragile but "lovely to touch" varnish. The fingerboard satin finish is quite nice but in my case the wood could have been chosen better as you can see not so sexy darker wood veins. The trem, well, is a vintage trem. I tried it for a few months and while it works decently it affects the tuning too much to my liking so I locked it. The electronic part of the guitar is what you'd expect from a US Fender, you can turn the volume all the way while keeping a bright sound. Sound That's where this baby shines. Texas Specials can divide but on the bonus side you immediatly know if you like 'em or not, they have a sharp attack wich I love and a quite high output for single coils. They make the guitar sing with an OD and are reactive to any variation of picking, nuance, very satisfying. the bridge pickup has a very sharp attack without beeing too harsh an is great for saturated chords. the middle pickup has a "telecasterish" sound, I love it, very in you face The neck pick up adds warmth while keeping the middle-heavy signature sound of the Texas Specials The 4th and 2nd positions are in the spirit of the SRV sound on "Mary had a little lamb", I just adore it. The guitar seems at ease with any kind of clean and saturated sound both for solos and chords. Pros and cons + Available in surf green Build quality Available in surf green Sound Available in surf green Price Available in surf green - Vintage 6points trem Varnish looks fragile Gig bag