Fender American Deluxe Stratocaster HSS [2010-2014]

The Fender Stratocaster is an outstanding and versatile guitar. It's a beautiful guitar from top to bottom with its great classic look and almost perfect balance. This is such a great guitar that has been copied by so many other garage guitar builders and major manufacturers for years. It has become probably one of the most influential guitar body shapes in the world. The reason being it was such a great sound in such a great look and just perfect blend of all features imaginable. There's been some revisions to this guitar but overall he keeps much of its original contact

UTILIZATION

Model Name: American Deluxe Stratocaster HSS Electric Guitar
Series: American Deluxe Series
Body: select alder with contoured heel and body
Neck: maple, modern "C" shape, satin urethane finish
Fingerboard: maple or rosewood (depending on the color)
Nut: LSR roller nut
Pickups: 1 Fender atomic humbucking pickup (bridge), Noiseless N3 Strat pickups (middle/neck)

Controls: master volume (with s-1 switch),

Tone 1. (neck pickup),

Tone 2. no-load tone control (middle and bridge pickups)

Pickup switching: 5-position blade and 2-position push/push S-1
Bridge: Fender Deluxe 2-point Synchronized Tremolo with pop-in arm
Machine heads: Fender Deluxe Staggered Cast/Sealed locking tuning machines
Hardware: chrome
Pickguard: 3-ply Mint Green on 700 (3-Color Sunburst) and 770 (Sunset Metallic), Brown Shell on 720 (Amber) and 723 (Olympic Pearl), 3-Ply Black on 759 (Tungsten)
Strings: Fender Standard Tensionbullet st3250l, nickel plated steel, (.009 to .042, p/n 073-3250-203)
Accessories: cable, strap, polishing cloth
Case: New molded Fender-exclusive/SKB case with TSA locks, glass reinforced nylon trigger latches, and form fitted plush interior

Unique features:
Compound-radius fretboard
1 Fender atomic humbucking pickup (bridge), New Noiseless N3 Strat pickups (middle/neck)
Reconfigured S-1 switching
Locking tuning machines
LSR roller nut
Contoured heel and body
New molded Fender-exclusive/SKB case with TSA locks, glass reinforced nylon trigger latches, and form fitted plush interior


SOUNDS


The tone of these guitars are fantastic because it features a humbucker pick ps with two single coil pickups. This allows this guitar for extreme versatility because of the variance of tones that you get with these pickups. You also get any contoured neck heel which allows for easier access to the higher frets. This is a great feature that you see on modern built guitars and now it's available on this Fender Stratocaster deluxe guitar.

These guitars sound great in pretty much any amplifier setting you have. Whether that be clean amplifier's or modern high gain amplifiers this guitar will serve you very well in any setting.


OVERALL OPINION


I highly recommend instrument to anyone looking for the ultimate Fender Stratocaster experience. This is a little bit more expensive than the standard American fender Stratocaster guitars primarily because of the extra features that's involved. This is a great guitar and at new you can find them for right around $1500 which is an exceptional price for such a great versatile and American-built guitar.

Along with the regular and ash bodied deluxe strats that Fender has, they also have one to suit those who want a bit more power in the bridge. This guitar has an alder body with a maple neck, a rosewood fretboard, 22 frets, two point tremolo, HSS configuration, one volume, two tones and a five way switch.

UTILIZATION

The first thing I noticed when I picked this guitar up was that it's heavy. I'm not a huge fan of heavy guitars, and this isn't exactly a common thing for Fender. I prefer lighter guitars as I feel they resonate a bit nicer. The frets on this weren't perfectly level, and I had some issues when I started lowering the action to where I like it. To be fair, I can't complain too much because the 9.5'' radius itself is limiting how low I can get the action. I tend to prefer a flatter radius neck than the rounder one like on this guitar.

SOUNDS

The stock pickups in this are decent, but they're nothing too amazing. The bridge had a very standard style humbucking tone. It was fat and warm when comparing it to a normal strat, and it overdrove the amp nicely. I played it through a DSL, and it was very punchy. I found it a bit lacking at times for certain things, but most people should enjoy it. The neck and middle pickups were a touch bland, but they did the job in getting that famous strat tone that most people tend to look for. I think some aftermarket pickups could work nicely, but it all depends on what you're going for.

OVERALL OPINION

The HSS strats are some of my favorite, and this one was up there with the rest of them in terms of being able to get tons of sounds out of it. I'd personally install a push/pull where the tone pot is so I could have another sound, but the stock setup is pretty good how it is. Try to buy used to save money.