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iamqman « CLassic and refined »
Published on 09/28/11 at 18:26The Fender stratocasters are great guitar and one of the most influential guitars and probably the most easily recognize guitars on the planet. It has a great weight and balance that gives it such a great feel and overall spectacular tone. It's a simple guitar but yet such a fantastic piece of work done 60+ years ago. The blue paint job is excellent with the black pick guard.
UTILIZATION
The tone of this guitar is such a great tone with the three single coil pick ups one volume knob and two tone control knobs. With a five way pick up selector that makes this guitar very versatile and selecting the pickup to match your tone. It's a simple design but yet gives you extremely amazing results.
SOUNDS
These guitars are fantastic when coupled with the good delay pedal or maybe an overdrive pedal and a solid amplifier of some kind. If you're into clean amplifiers and like to use a lot of the effects or pedals then a fender clean amp such as a twin reverb or Princeton amp will do you very well. If you're more into higher gain tones that I suggest playing this through a Mesa boogie amplifier or even a Marshall amplifier of some sort. Either way this guitar with sound great in pretty much any mix to you have. They aren't that great at drop tuning or alternate tunings as much but they will give you a great solid clean or dirty guitar tone.
I really prefer these guitars with the Marshall JCM 800 amplifier of some sort. Or just any hundred watt Marshall amplifier in general. It's the same set up that Jimi Hendrix and so many other players after him have used and it's such a great and fantastic and easy tone to chief.
OVERALL OPINION
These guitars you can find pretty easily in the use market as well as in many guitar retailer shops. You're easy to find and not very expensive if you can afford the just above thousand dollar price. It's a great guitar and I would recommend every guitar player to a one of these guitars at some point in their playing career.
UTILIZATION
The tone of this guitar is such a great tone with the three single coil pick ups one volume knob and two tone control knobs. With a five way pick up selector that makes this guitar very versatile and selecting the pickup to match your tone. It's a simple design but yet gives you extremely amazing results.
SOUNDS
These guitars are fantastic when coupled with the good delay pedal or maybe an overdrive pedal and a solid amplifier of some kind. If you're into clean amplifiers and like to use a lot of the effects or pedals then a fender clean amp such as a twin reverb or Princeton amp will do you very well. If you're more into higher gain tones that I suggest playing this through a Mesa boogie amplifier or even a Marshall amplifier of some sort. Either way this guitar with sound great in pretty much any mix to you have. They aren't that great at drop tuning or alternate tunings as much but they will give you a great solid clean or dirty guitar tone.
I really prefer these guitars with the Marshall JCM 800 amplifier of some sort. Or just any hundred watt Marshall amplifier in general. It's the same set up that Jimi Hendrix and so many other players after him have used and it's such a great and fantastic and easy tone to chief.
OVERALL OPINION
These guitars you can find pretty easily in the use market as well as in many guitar retailer shops. You're easy to find and not very expensive if you can afford the just above thousand dollar price. It's a great guitar and I would recommend every guitar player to a one of these guitars at some point in their playing career.