All user reviews for the Fender American Standard Stratocaster [1986-2000]

I got this guitar because a couple of my favorite guitarists used it. I bought it from musicians friend and paid $300

I really like the neck. The neck is finished just enough to shine, but still let your fingers fly around without getting that stick on the glossy necks. The look of it is cool, I like the bridge, I like almost all of it.

I didnt like the cheesy look of it when I first bought it. I got black with maple fingerboard. The pickguard was pure white, and it looked really ugly and dumb. I put black knobs and black pickup shells on it and replaced the bridge pickup with a seymour duncan JB jr. It sounds really cool, especially if you like that downstrum-Ramones type sound.

It stays in tune through anything. My string strip very frequently at the bridge though. It is better (In my opinion) than American Strats.

I would very much suggest buying this guitar.

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I bought this guitar at Mars music. I got it because i wanted an electric and only had an acoustic. I paid about $300 for a pack that came with an 15 watt amp, guitar, gig bag, strings, picks, video, and strap.

It's not too expensive.i also like that it sounds decent for the price.

There is a lot of faults with this guitar though. One is it the indides fall apart. I have to keep ajusting crap. have to tune it like 8 times in a row. Scratches very easily. Doesnt have a lot of power. And just isnt a good guitar after you have about 9 months experience playing guitar.

Cheapliy made and not put together real well.

It's not a great guitar. After this i would move up to maybe a mexican fat strat. but it is good for newbies.

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Mine is: USD.
Color: Natural (varnish)
Neck: Maple.
Mcaniques: not great.
Electronics: All original
Finish: Okay, it Fidler. But good price could be better.

UTILIZATION

Maple Neck: Hyper acute lot of slamming, not bad for funk or rock aggressive English well. And then touch the handle is colder, harder than rosewood, less enjoyable after all.

Slecteur Micro: They still do not think the change of place. I may be clever but not trs Lorqui I play, I change rgulirement micro slecteur inadvertently because the microphone is in the race of my hand ... They may be saying that just that can quickly change if micro ncessaire ... but I find that teachers and stressful ... in concert ..

Weight: Legre, well, not heavy.

Fidler: It sounds live. There is no picture if the sound you want fender is l.

Pickups: Each micro his characters which gives it the versatility in sounds. If the amp are good you can really have great nuances of sound.

SOUNDS

RAS

It Fidler.

OVERALL OPINION

I am happy with this guitar trs.

I may change the handle Petre's really too slamming and lack of fullness in the sound.

United States Standard Stratocaster 1989
Three micro single, standard configuration
Fender vibrato bridge
1 volume 2 tone
Saddle + key rosewood I think.
Nothing exceptional in itself. But all is well suprieur the sum of its parts. This alchemy the 10 property is worth a pes.

UTILIZATION

The handle is trs enjoyable, comfortable, fast, wide and flat, touch lgrement bomb. exceptional action on the strings. A little less vibrato in the brush that mtal like any vibrato dsacorde lgrement when making a bend. But it is not rdhibitoire in my case.
Access in acute ... Well, it's a Start, what. Idalie weight and shape. What a beauty I too sometimes I contemplate it without playing, so it is beautiful. No frills kind of finish the wood grain visible. A beautiful canary yellow book (do not laugh, I love this color) any sober, that's enough.
Getting a good sound with this obviousness is a MODEL, provided you love the sound strat. But then the one is used.

SOUNDS

I do not know if my pickups are amricains, Mexican or otherwise, but the fact is they sound exceptionally well. Biting clarity, smooth agressivit, they know everything and fits all types of music. I could try it on the marshall, mesa boogie, peavey, carvin, roland, and even on little itty bitty amp all, she always sounded exceptional fawn. The casseroles funky, bluesy riffs, sounds clear, warm and distortions are powerchords privilgis Obviously, but there is no problem to get more jazzy sounds, softer, rounder. It's all about rglage. Bon Obviously, if you are a fan of the SG / Marshall lamps, it is impossible to obtain without dnaturer the sound of the guitar, which would be a bit bte. But versatility is the quality and always.

OVERALL OPINION

I use this guitar for 16 years. I had a crush on her, and she has never other than of making me feel badly my own limitations. I do not deliberately spare (I spar dj guitar much more expensive while retaining the-l.
I have lots of guitars on jou diffrent, the Gibson SG, Les Paul, 335, a Music Man Eddie Van Hallen, Telecaster, other Stratocasters. All taient excellent guitars. May even be some Whereas some taient objectively better than this. But for me, this guitar is the queen indtrnable of my little kingdom amateur musician.

American Standard Stratocaster, as it was called the era. So United States.
22 frets, 3 single pickups Fender
Std Fender Bridge
Attention rglages: My Start is 95 and has an original petition: The Treble Tone also controls the micro acute. It was not done before, has done more APRS did. I lacated that gives a small advantage for rglages sound.
Channel stocky, rosewood fingerboard (I wanted a sound not too dry)

In short a nice guitar, made to be able to change what you want it. A kit, such as Mr Fender wanted.

UTILIZATION

It's fun to play like a Start. Not top notch but more comfortable than a Les Paul (and below)
Access in acute: Yeah, not bad, nothing more. This is not an Ibanez for crazy suprieures octaves.
Sound, so it's easy to find, at least if one seeks the Start sound (see more)

Its default?
- On my Start, you can not rgler tilt.
- Conducting random image agreement if the tortures vibrato.
- Hum and buzz for microphones (excluding combinations) ds we approach an amp lamp, a halogne, a no, a notch of tl or computer. Yeah, to do with: the ranon sound for this type of microphones.

Its quality?
- Comfortable
- Can be almost anything rgler: the height of the frets, the hollow of the neck, the tuning fork, a reminder of spring. everything is the door through a scratch like me. Thank you Leo.
- You can almost change everything. This is a kit that can modify all or part (microphones, run, hide, plate, mechanical, body etc ...). It is also scratch through the door. Again, thank you Leo.
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SOUNDS

be a trs's my style of music I play blues and has not nerv, Fender is cooool.
The Start is less than the type T but it has its characters and also we can do with things impossible with a Tl (try the sounds out phase with Tl-I laughs a little). Purchase any fawn I try not war, one day I will also have a T!

It's too lightweight for big sound that good but with Czech pedals in front of a good amp lamp families, sends out the same as graouh.
What I use on my Start hummm? Ben 's not all ... prs
- Micro Serious blues solos typs
- Serious and middle pickup combinations: rhythmic
- Micro environment: more solos and rhythmic rock type
- Middle and treble pickups combination: more rhythmic funk
- Micro acute: I use it almost never alone. Too aggressive for me the one!

You see, I do not reinvent the tide water, I use my Start trs acadm finally.
short, I love all his sounds.
For me it's even one of the great strengths of the skyscraper: the diversity and yet the personality.

OVERALL OPINION

I have 10 years.
Pigalle bought new for 4600 USD, c'tait the right time.
I hsit with prestigious MODELS (Start + etc ...). A salesman advised me: "You want the sound of discs you Listen to you? Buy Standard. It buzz, it is rustic, but it was worth the money: you have the sound of your idols"
He was right the guy.

If I had not my Start and my Gibson would be too happy, but not!
So well that sr aa t a purchase of my life. I use it at least once a week, and even if I am doing infidlits, it is one of the favorite and she knows it.
But today, it's true that I often watch the Warmoth site, why not a Start Super beautiful personal mmmmhhhh?

In any case, for the price I had paid the era, I have no regrets. Not a problem, no knob spitting, no nut that cuts the strings (I broke my string Premire two months ago, yet I would put the 10-46 that I bend to a Your 1 / 2 or 2 tones of time).
A reliable guitar, classical, without risk, but which gives leeway to scratch to hear his playing personality. A really good scratch. Mine is the color "Candy Apple Red" (red apple caramlise in the text, photo on my profile), and thus we see beneath the veneer alder. Simple, class, lgant, great everything.

In short, a skyscraper that made me happy! And continues!
: Happy:

Standard Stratocaster sunburst made in United States in 1991. Settings Vol / Tone / Tone + TBX.

The origins of microphones have been replaced by Van Zandt Blues. I also added a Bartolini preamp and mechanical blocks Schaller.

If you must bring a note of these features I can only put 10 being a fan of the configuration 3 microphones, possible settings, vibrato, the handle, etc ... Start the 'what.

UTILIZATION

The handle is extremely comfortable. Obviously all the difference, in my opinion, between a custom shop or a reissue, is the handle. One can certainly find it more comfortable but the fender standard US offers nice balance between playability and character of the handle ... Basically you have to "send", play with the nuances, attack ... A guitar and a handle to tame, but a wide variety of sounds appointment.

Weight level mine is particularly light, it still has 15 years, but in general the strata 'alder have a very reasonable weight.

I put 8 because of mechanical junk that they were at the time.

SOUNDS

Sound Start 'is the versatility to meet you. The single coils deliver clear and saturated sounds wonderful little we know dose effects and adjust the amp. Then the original pickups are a scandal to me. The pickups fender, it's really not that great, except for some Lace Sensor and rigor of the Texas Special ... Do not hesitate to go to Di Marzio, Seymour Duncan, Van Zandt, Kinman ... It depends on taste and color.

I use most often on Mesa Boogie, Peavy Classic 30 and Fender Hot Rod or Twin. Always a treat.

Belle versatility but blame fender pickups and rotting during the 90's.

OVERALL OPINION

Stratum 'standard US violin offers quality, beautiful acoustic and aesthetic qualities. I know Fender has since installed additional microphones and mechanical on the standard and at the same time increased its prices significantly ... After testing I am not convinced by the microphones ... The value for money is impeccable, even excellent. Even if it is added 200/300 euros to get the sound, this guitar through time, is very versatile and is mostly very solid and well finished. And the bonus is that it sounds better and better with time ... An excellent investment over the long term.

9 because of those pesky microphones fender ... (They've got the recipe lost after the 70's or what?)

Made in America in 1990
22 frets. Everything is original.
I have to change the nut and adjust to because it just frieze.
Channel mapple touch with reported
Like strata of that time, it has a single cavity for the three microphones.
(This gene purists)
Other than that, nothing special to report: it is a strato

UTILIZATION

Channel varnish fast
Good clear sound.
Good sound with a tube amp.

SOUNDS

Its great for rhythmic clear sound that I like (blues, funk, rock ..)
I use it on Prowler Peaevy tube amp (+ slight delay from time to time)
For sounds bold, I use the LEAD channel of the amp is fine.

OVERALL OPINION

I've had two months
OCCAZ purchased from just over 600 Euros (prices correct)
On OCCAZ, it's worth it, but nine is way too expensive, especially in France (!!!).
I also have a 62 Japonnaise SUCCESSFUL (with microphones US) that sound good (enough for services in small clubs) but this exceeds the (fuller, more powerful and more sustain).
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United States 1989, rosewood handle, totally original

UTILIZATION

The handle is very pleasant, comfortable, without being very fast.
It is rather lgre, perfect ergonomics.
Note that I did not peter over 3 strings in 17 years )
Vibrato use gentle pain of ironing IMMEDIATE tuner box ..
You really put ill will for not having sound.

SOUNDS

Sounds very satisfactory, which does not expect to find the depth of a Les Paul or the power of an Ibanez, ESP, Lag ...
Her clear, airy, crystalline.
I use either clear sound by coupling the microphones, or by saturation with acute micro alone and it is for a vintage sound with pedals Boss OD2 exit the sound ... well mtal on! (Note that it is not good mnage Sans Amp for the cons .. like all my guitars single coils for that matter)
I add also the Boss CS2 compressor and sometimes the delay Boss DD3.
Microphones intermdiaire have serious interest for me a couple.
I play a Fender Twin, a Peavey studio pro 50 and even on a Fender RAD still sounds good ..

OVERALL OPINION

I bought it new in 1990.
I may have fallen on a good numro, but she never paid.
I tried a lot and there may be a sensitive Difference MODEL another.
I especially like its clean sounds and crunchy, but you can still push the overdrive. It is very versatile.
I paid the 5000F era. From the first chord until today, I never regret this achat.Si I could, I would even buy one of the second with Mapple handle.
A good guitar if not to be allergic to a Fender and not want to use it in a too moves away from that for which it does think.
I can not say too much about the latest that I know little, even when a blame for that Fender, Gibson, as elsewhere, is used to deliver guitars leave the factory set incorrectly, the current price, made spot, though ..

Stratocaster made in United States in 1996 and manufactures clbre so the 50-year history of the brand ... has already 12 years makes ..!!! just a. (The sounds continue to improve every day, all the better!)
Stratocaster standard, prs standard exceptions: alder body like any other but the neck seems thinner and easier to play (I do not know if it's just an impression or on the rel MODEL ...).

UTILIZATION

Channel trs enjoyable, good Access in acute, we find the right sound immediately ...

SOUNDS

The sound on the original 50th was good with the original pickups, but with the Vintage Noiseless that I brought up, it really gets warmer. Trs good sustain.
Defines a hard sound it sounds trs the blues Buddy Guy, SRV, Clapton, Hendrix ... all the microphones dpend chosen and settings ... I think that the replacement of the microphones is to too much ...!!!
I put 10/10 because there is nothing to change the sound, otherwise we must choose one other models, a Gibson sounds fatter but will fail to achieve the same clear sound. ..
Some purists will try to prove to me that the deluxe models or other models signature is nothing comparable, and of the people I tell them I also have a deluxe even a Clapton Signature, ok for playing comfort and finish you can not compare models, but the sound my ears can not prefer one or the other ...
So that's why I put this guitar 10/10 (with the original pickups I would put against by 8 / 10 that remain, however, trs good too ...)

OVERALL OPINION

Trs good guitar that is affordable in time (around 800) and will not lose value over the years ...
Good for the collector I know if this model will grow in value rapidly over the years, it has yet even when already 12 years ... (in all cases it will take more than a std strat United States of other years of the 90's), anyway I think that we should not necessarily buy a guitar with this in mind ...

Mine is a US Standard of 1994, a maple neck, 22 frets and the pickups of origin. Its color is metallic gray. A 5-way switching system and adjustable TBX at a knob, allowing logical to enrich the sound of the middle.
The myth Stratocaster with its qualities and defects, in short, a childhood dream!

UTILIZATION

The handle is a delight, very fine, and access to treble is fairly easy, due to the ergonomics of the whole. Precisely speaking of ergonomics, this guitar was actually designed for comfort, both sitting and standing. Anyway, there's no mystery why so many guitarists have taken this guitar ...
The sound is very easy to obtain, despite the lack of personality of these pickups, compared with microphones fitted to other models of Start

SOUNDS

This guitar is perfect for clean sounds or slightly crunchy. The positions of the most interesting (in my opinion) is the neck pickup, see round-the middle or the one you get dug, bluesy, great for solos and easel for a high-pitched great for rhythm. Other positions lack personality and have no interest in this guitar.
I abandoned the classic traditional amplifier for Guitar Rig 3 software solution. Well, sounds obtained are really good, knowing that with this type of product, the effects can be grown thoroughly.
However, the only flaw of this guitar are the pickups. We feel that Fender did not want to give too much personality, offering a sound, albeit typed Start, but still neutral enough to meet the needs of the majority. In addition, once you add saturation, that buzz (just normal for single coil). I think investing in Custom Shop 69 pickups to give it a bit more personality. The overall quality of the instrument is very good, it provides a reasonably priced guitar with a Stratocaster sound four times as much! I took advantage of a shield can do all this to reduce the buzz!
This will bring no added value to the instrument, so for those who want to sell after eating, it is better to turn to a Custom Shop Start directly.

OVERALL OPINION

OCCAZ purchased in 2003 560 € flycase original included, it became my favorite. I also have a beautiful Aria Pro II RS850 to finish more than perfect, but still, the layer provides an unmatched ease of use.
For that alone, the price of nine considered excessive at times, be justified still a little.
Think of the 2500 € Gibson, well at that price, Fender, you have the Custom Shop ...

USA
3 simple microphones
2 trestle bridges
2 volumes 1 tone
handle configuration C

UTILIZATION

Channel enjoyable trs
Good Access in acute
a little heavy for 5 hours prom
nothing but the rest is vintage not count

SOUNDS

By itself I can not find my happiness too mtallique. I fill with michael kelly (happiness)
I play a fender deluxe 90 dsp
is the queen of the shadows but warmer sound should change the pickups

OVERALL OPINION

I use it since 1996
lack of diversity of its
I possde a Yamaha Pacifica, a 1959 Les Paul Studio, a Michael Kelly, a Peavey Raptor and a Hagstrom Corvette 1966
The cast is overrated, it is worth half the other half is for the brand
yes like everyone else

- In what country does she makes? (United States, Japan, Mexico, France ...)
USA

- How many frets, what kind of micro as well as their configuration?
22 frets, 3 standard single coil pickups which I replaced with vintage Van Zant

- What type of bridge (Floyd, Wilkinson ...)?
Fender standart of 2 pivots

- What are the rglages (Volume, Tone slecteur micro ...)?
1 volume, 2 Tone 5-way switch, I added a switch to go from cablge in parallel in cablge SERIES

- What type of race?
rosewood fingerboard

UTILIZATION

- The handle is it enjoyable?
Excellent

- Access in acute (dernires freight) is it easy?
Yes

- Ergonomics is it good (in terms of shape, weight ...)?
T invent the word ergonomics for stratum

- Gets it easy to sound good? ...
Ms me, I sometimes (well, I find it good ...)

SOUNDS

- Appropriate are your style of music?
T invent the word versatility to the strata

- With what (s) amplifier (s) or effect (s) do you play?
Marshall JCM 800, dunlop whawha, Sansamp, echo

- What kind of sound you get and with what rglages ("crystalline", "bold ",....)?
Everything from the large saturation (with the marshall distortion + that of the Sansamp and microphones SERIES) to the crystalline sounds of stratum CHARACTERISTICS

- What are the sounds you prfrez, you dtest?
No I dtest

OVERALL OPINION

- How long have you use it?
I Achates new in 96

- What is the particular feature you like best and least?
The SOUND! plus she is beautiful trs

- Have you tried many other models before acqurir?
No, but I immediately felt the difference with my old Aria Pro II Cat

- How do you report qualitprix?
Trs good the era (I'm shooting for less than silent 6000Fr) but I think they have greatly increased, still cheaper than a Gibson.

- With the exprience, you do again this choice? ...
Without hsiter

USA

UTILIZATION

Smooth round
MODEL This is very sound Fender REPRESENTATIVES

SOUNDS

Is perfect for musicians Blues, Rock, Funk and Reggae ...
I play this guitar on a lamp and a Vox AC30 Yamaha 30Watts, I sometimes go by a guitar effects GT6 pdalier ... Silence, the sound is!

OVERALL OPINION

I also use a Gibson Les Paul Studio, but the strato is what's best for all that rings 60 ', 70'

It is a standard stratocaster USA's 1996 beauty. It has an absolutely fabulous body (the wood grain through the paint).

Color: 3 Tone Sunburst with white plate
Fender Pickups 3 single coils
Slecteur 5 positions
Silver fittings
Vibrato
I replaced the pickups covers and buttons.
What's more, look at the photo is mine!

A classic that has been proven in the past.

UTILIZATION

I prfre a Gibson, but must be taken in hand to realize if this is the guitar for you. Personally, I sought and found.
The handle is trs fast lgrement flat derrire which provides a good feel of the game
Access in acute is easy. The body is lightweight.
The five positions slecteur provides a wide range of sounds.
The Start is a versatile guitar with his possde DEFINITIONS CHARACTERISTICS sound and clean. It's not for nothing that some have chosen: SRV, Hendrix, Gilmour, McCready ... Ok they are raw but you never know one day the spotlights shine for you too may be.

SOUNDS

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It should all the styles I play. While a small pedals allows for more roundness to a Led Zeppelin but it shines even in Rock Reggae Funk Jazz when needed. For the Rock, some prfrent Gibson or the other (it's not lack of choice) for me is the stratum. I have trouble buying dcrire but I have not even part of its saturated jou have a Fender amp and 20 minutes APRS test I took the map. Business class. Since it is only happiness.

OVERALL OPINION

I am satisfied.