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iamqman « A rocker's guitar »
Published on 09/15/11 at 13:52I really like this Fender Stratocaster guitar because of the several features that is pretty unique to this guitar and much more modern and its original construction. This guitar features a humbucker pickup in the bridge and then the usual single coil in the middle' and one in the neck pick up position. This gives the guitar overall more versatility because of the various tones you can get with humbuckers and single coils in one guitar. Another great feature on this guitar is that it has a contour neck heel which allows for easy playability up in the higher frets. It's allows for shredding and soloing much more easier because the body of the guitar does not get in the way.
UTILIZATION
Body: Alder
Fingerboard: Rosewood
Neck: Modern 'C' Shape Maple Neck with Satin Polyurethane Finish, Dot Abolone Inlays
Pickups: 1 Single-Coil SCN Strat® Pickup (Samarium Cobalt Noiseless), 1 Single-Coil Hot SCN Strat® Pickup (Samarium Cobalt Noiseless), 1 DH-1 Humbucking Pickup
Tuners: Deluxe Stagggered Locking Tuners
Bridge: Deluxe 2-Point Synchronized Tremolo w/ Stainless Steel Saddles and Pop-In Arm
Frets: 22 Medium Jumbo
SOUNDS
The tone of this guitar is fantastic as you would expect from an American made Fender Stratocaster guitar. You have a lot of versatility in the tones because primarily the fender Stratoaster has a unique tone in the neck pickup position in my opinion. It has more of a warm singing sustained tone. But then you have the humbucker in the bridge position which allows the guitar to have extreme versatility in tone and options. So therefore your bridge tone can be thicker and chewy are more tailored towards saturation and distortion. Therefore you can play the guitar much easier and much more comfortably with any high gain amplifier setting. You'll have that super strat tone very easily and conveniently.
OVERALL OPINION
The price is little bit more than the standard American fender series stratocasters but that's because of the humbucker placement in the bridge as well as the contoured heel on the backside of the body. These future features drive the price up a few extra hundred dollars but it's not that noticeable compared to a lot of other guitars with modern features like this. At new you can find his guitars for right around $1500 which is a great price for alder wood body and maple neck. This is basically a similar guitar and she would find the new Charvel series super strats. The only thing that is missing is the Floyd Rose. Other than that this is a fantastic guitar and one of most versatile Stratocaster's to date.
UTILIZATION
Body: Alder
Fingerboard: Rosewood
Neck: Modern 'C' Shape Maple Neck with Satin Polyurethane Finish, Dot Abolone Inlays
Pickups: 1 Single-Coil SCN Strat® Pickup (Samarium Cobalt Noiseless), 1 Single-Coil Hot SCN Strat® Pickup (Samarium Cobalt Noiseless), 1 DH-1 Humbucking Pickup
Tuners: Deluxe Stagggered Locking Tuners
Bridge: Deluxe 2-Point Synchronized Tremolo w/ Stainless Steel Saddles and Pop-In Arm
Frets: 22 Medium Jumbo
SOUNDS
The tone of this guitar is fantastic as you would expect from an American made Fender Stratocaster guitar. You have a lot of versatility in the tones because primarily the fender Stratoaster has a unique tone in the neck pickup position in my opinion. It has more of a warm singing sustained tone. But then you have the humbucker in the bridge position which allows the guitar to have extreme versatility in tone and options. So therefore your bridge tone can be thicker and chewy are more tailored towards saturation and distortion. Therefore you can play the guitar much easier and much more comfortably with any high gain amplifier setting. You'll have that super strat tone very easily and conveniently.
OVERALL OPINION
The price is little bit more than the standard American fender series stratocasters but that's because of the humbucker placement in the bridge as well as the contoured heel on the backside of the body. These future features drive the price up a few extra hundred dollars but it's not that noticeable compared to a lot of other guitars with modern features like this. At new you can find his guitars for right around $1500 which is a great price for alder wood body and maple neck. This is basically a similar guitar and she would find the new Charvel series super strats. The only thing that is missing is the Floyd Rose. Other than that this is a fantastic guitar and one of most versatile Stratocaster's to date.