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Music0707 « Legend has good prices revisited »
Published on 03/27/11 at 07:40
Value For Money :
Excellent
GUITAR made in USA factory Wood BODY: Alder selected Urethane finish HANDLE Composition: maple, modern profile, C-shape, 22 medium jumbo frets, mother of pearl inlay points Radius: 9.5 "-14" radius offset (355.6mm-241mm ) Fingerboard: Rosewood or Maple Finish: Satin Urethane Width: 1.6875 "(43 mm) Length: 25.5" (648 mm) Mounting: 4 screws with Micro-Tilt Nut: LSR Roller nut American Series 1 / 8 "ELECTRONIC Bridge pickup ( H): Atomic Humbucking Micro Central (S2): N3 Noiseless Stratocaster Neck pickup (S1): N3 Noiseless Start Switch: 5 position Controls: Master Volume, Tone1 (Neck pickup) Tone2 (Bridge pickup / central) Push button: ON = humbucker single off of "Volume" and "Tone 1 & 2" SETUP MIC = 11 total Parallel: S1 (Tone1), S1 + S2 (Tone1 + Tone2), S2 (Tone2), S 2 + H (Tone2), H ( Tone2) Series: S1 + S2 (Tone1), S1 + S2 (Tone1 Tone2 + + Capacitor), S1 + S2 + H (Tone2), S 2 + H (+ Tone2 capacitor), S2 + H (Tone2) Special: H without Volume & Tone without HARDWARE Bridge: Vibrato Deluxe 2-Point Synchronized with bar "Pop in" Rod Deluxe snap vibrato Tuners: Deluxe blocking oil bath and layered system of strap: Schaller Strap Lock ACCESSORIES SUPPLIED adjustment wrench Hex (Allen) 1 / 8 "Hex Key (Allen) .050" Case: SKB rectangular molded strap lock: Jack Fender: Fender 3 meters PULLING STRINGS: .009 to .042
UTILIZATION
This guitar is a "super" Stratocaster. The finishes are impeccable and quality accessories. The quality / price for this guitar is excellent, nothing to do with some guitars "Signed" where prices are soaring.
The comfort game lives up to the mark. It includes of course the qualities of ergonomics that has made the foundation of all other electric guitars (except Gibson obviously) and defects improved with more or less successful as Fender did not hesitate to innovate and take ideas competition where they make real improvements. Clearly, for the handle part, you play a round handle thus allowing a relatively thick plating agree very easy and relaxing.
The junction body / neck is reviewed, as access to acute is more easily cut with an angle: the shredders will not be outdone but nothing beats the access with a cutaway! And be careful not handle fast but you'll have much more precision in your solos! The Bends are easy to do, thank you to the game of rope 009/042 origin. Then comes the tandem Vibrato / Nut. Well it is going very well, the tuning remains perfectly in place. This is not a Floyd Rose so we can not do that but it is very efficient, flexible and easy to use. And LSR nut with ball bearing is for me the "ultimate", not a gadget more in the guitar world: it works ...
therefore no friction strings is heard as it may be the case with others!
Finally the electronic part.
Fender for this model rethink the possibilities of combining microphones! So you have the classical part of parallel combination of the 3 pickups with 5 position switch BUT by turning on the switch located on the volume button you have access to the series connection of microphones! And finally there is the push button, which when activated, bypasses all electronics and microphones simple knobs and leaves only the humbucker directly engages your chords. Your guitar is thus in its gross level directly with your amp!
I find it rather clever and effective way to naturally saturate the input of your amp especially for tubes ...
A total of no less than 11 sounds that you have
... Gadget gadget or not you be the judge?!? Balance, this guitar is remarkable is ultimately a stratocaster revisited and improved.
Need we say more except "Try this URGENTLY.
Although this guitar is completely manufacture factory, it's very very good and fair prices from Fender.
SOUNDS
Once connected, the unmistakable Fender sound is there.
For the classical part with MICROS IN PARALLEL: The neck pickup is warm and precise, micro middle fairly neutral, and the bridge pickup with acute slamming beautiful place to do funky rhythms being careful because the volume is still a double with a tendency to chruncher easily.
In short, this guitar will cover all styles with the tab will not Fender but more depth to the metal, it is not made for that. For part MICROS SERIES: This time we are in the unknown ...
But what is a configuration like that may well bring??
Except some of us who have been testing everyone microphones mounted in parallel. But the advantage of putting them in series, is to have an output voltage higher but with less power ...
Without going into scientific explanations, the important thing is that a serial configuration unless fishing Release notes BUT take longer.
And this is what happens, the sound is softer, more neutral, it is almost on the verge of losing his Fender but the sustain is much longer ...
approximately 1 / 4 the length of the note So here we are again with an improvement on the one hand the classic Fender and the other something more neutral, but with keeping note you will not find elsewhere except of course some models of guitar or customization but rarely as easy a passage with a button to go from one to the other!
OVERALL OPINION
To me, this guitar is the most successful model that Fender have produced so far: it is near perfection.
The brand experience is there, how to do better?? Not to mention that new it comes with a strap and a jack!
You can plug and play directly because it is totally useless to make a deal maker, is already done and very well done. Is what I would do this choice: Yes, EYES CLOSED! The positives: + + Finishes impeccable quality materials and assembly + Comfort + Lutherie perfectly regulated gaming + The "Sound" Fender + Possibility to switch micro parallel or serial configuration + Vibrato Soft, keeping the tuning + Value for money Negative points: - Well, I'm still looking?? May be acute with access to a "TRUE" Cutaway ... but it would not be "classics" that we Fenders connaisons all: (
UTILIZATION
This guitar is a "super" Stratocaster. The finishes are impeccable and quality accessories. The quality / price for this guitar is excellent, nothing to do with some guitars "Signed" where prices are soaring.
The comfort game lives up to the mark. It includes of course the qualities of ergonomics that has made the foundation of all other electric guitars (except Gibson obviously) and defects improved with more or less successful as Fender did not hesitate to innovate and take ideas competition where they make real improvements. Clearly, for the handle part, you play a round handle thus allowing a relatively thick plating agree very easy and relaxing.
The junction body / neck is reviewed, as access to acute is more easily cut with an angle: the shredders will not be outdone but nothing beats the access with a cutaway! And be careful not handle fast but you'll have much more precision in your solos! The Bends are easy to do, thank you to the game of rope 009/042 origin. Then comes the tandem Vibrato / Nut. Well it is going very well, the tuning remains perfectly in place. This is not a Floyd Rose so we can not do that but it is very efficient, flexible and easy to use. And LSR nut with ball bearing is for me the "ultimate", not a gadget more in the guitar world: it works ...
therefore no friction strings is heard as it may be the case with others!
Finally the electronic part.
Fender for this model rethink the possibilities of combining microphones! So you have the classical part of parallel combination of the 3 pickups with 5 position switch BUT by turning on the switch located on the volume button you have access to the series connection of microphones! And finally there is the push button, which when activated, bypasses all electronics and microphones simple knobs and leaves only the humbucker directly engages your chords. Your guitar is thus in its gross level directly with your amp!
I find it rather clever and effective way to naturally saturate the input of your amp especially for tubes ...
A total of no less than 11 sounds that you have
... Gadget gadget or not you be the judge?!? Balance, this guitar is remarkable is ultimately a stratocaster revisited and improved. Need we say more except "Try this URGENTLY.
Although this guitar is completely manufacture factory, it's very very good and fair prices from Fender.
SOUNDS
Once connected, the unmistakable Fender sound is there.
For the classical part with MICROS IN PARALLEL: The neck pickup is warm and precise, micro middle fairly neutral, and the bridge pickup with acute slamming beautiful place to do funky rhythms being careful because the volume is still a double with a tendency to chruncher easily.
In short, this guitar will cover all styles with the tab will not Fender but more depth to the metal, it is not made for that. For part MICROS SERIES: This time we are in the unknown ...
But what is a configuration like that may well bring??
Except some of us who have been testing everyone microphones mounted in parallel. But the advantage of putting them in series, is to have an output voltage higher but with less power ...
Without going into scientific explanations, the important thing is that a serial configuration unless fishing Release notes BUT take longer.
And this is what happens, the sound is softer, more neutral, it is almost on the verge of losing his Fender but the sustain is much longer ...
approximately 1 / 4 the length of the note
So here we are again with an improvement on the one hand the classic Fender and the other something more neutral, but with keeping note you will not find elsewhere except of course some models of guitar or customization but rarely as easy a passage with a button to go from one to the other!OVERALL OPINION
To me, this guitar is the most successful model that Fender have produced so far: it is near perfection.
The brand experience is there, how to do better?? Not to mention that new it comes with a strap and a jack!
You can plug and play directly because it is totally useless to make a deal maker, is already done and very well done. Is what I would do this choice: Yes, EYES CLOSED! The positives: + + Finishes impeccable quality materials and assembly + Comfort + Lutherie perfectly regulated gaming + The "Sound" Fender + Possibility to switch micro parallel or serial configuration + Vibrato Soft, keeping the tuning + Value for money Negative points: - Well, I'm still looking?? May be acute with access to a "TRUE" Cutaway ... but it would not be "classics" that we Fenders connaisons all: (