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iamqman « Taste like candy »
Published on 11/07/11 at 10:58Fender Stratocaster is an awesome guitar that is very giving and solid sounding for any users to play it. It hass a natural organic sound that is inviting for most musicians to use. It's a very versatile guitar for any style of music and just has an absolute brilliant tone.
The features are pretty minimal and this guitar compared a lot of modern guitars. Give a simple three single coil pickup arrangement as well as a volume control knob and two tone control knobs. You also have a five way pick up selector and that's pretty much about it.
UTILIZATION
Neck Shape: Modern "C" Shape
Number of Frets: 22
Fret Size: Medium Jumbo
Position Inlays: Pearl Dot Inlays
Fingerboard Radius: 9.5"-14" Compound Radius (24.1 cm-35.56 cm)
Fretboard: Rosewood or Maple
Neck Material: Maple
Neck Finish: Satin Urethane
Nut Width: 1.685" (42.8 mm)
Scale Length: 25.5" (64.8 cm)
Neck Plate: 4-Bolt Neck Plate with Micro-Tilt™
Truss Rod Nut: 1/8" American Series Nut
Electronics
Pickup Configuration: H/S/S
Bridge Pickup: Atomic Humbucking™ Pickup
Middle Pickup: Noiseless™ N3 Strat® Middle Pickup
Neck Pickup: Noiseless™ N3 Strat® Neck Pickup
Pickup Switching: Position 1. Humbucking Pickup w/ Coils in Series, Pos. 2. Middle Pickup/Inside Coil of Humbucking Pickup in Parallel, Pos. 3. Middle Pickup, Pos 4. Neck/Middle Pickup in Parallel, Pos. 5. Neck Pickup
Special Electronics: S-1™ Switch
Controls: Master Volume, Tone 1. (Neck Pickup), Tone 2. (Bridge/Middle Pickup)
Hardware
Hardware Finish: Chrome
Bridge: Deluxe 2-Point Synchronized Tremolo with Pop in Arm
String Nut: LSR Roller Nut
Switch Tips: Aged White Switch Tip
Tremolo Arm Handle: Pop-In Deluxe Tremolo Arm
Auxiliary Switching: 2-Position Push/Push "Passing Lane" Switch
SOUNDS
The tone of this guitar is very brilliant and exciting to play. As a nice sustain and a very organic and natural tone. Overall this is a brilliant instrument and a fun guitar play. I love the curvature of the body because it just naturally melts into your guitar stance. It feels comfortable and the tone is very inviting for most styles of music. It doesn't sound like good when you use it in modern type music as far as heavy metal and stuff like that but if you have it in a pop rock country setting in this guitar is a great instrument to use.
OVERALL OPINION
At new you can find these guitar shredder on $1000 or so. You can find them pretty easily and most guitar retailers and online as well as many classified sections. They're brilliant guitar at fun guitar at overall and very inviting sound for any style of music. I recommend this guitar to any guitars out there because it's a solid sounding instrument for recording and gigging.
The features are pretty minimal and this guitar compared a lot of modern guitars. Give a simple three single coil pickup arrangement as well as a volume control knob and two tone control knobs. You also have a five way pick up selector and that's pretty much about it.
UTILIZATION
Neck Shape: Modern "C" Shape
Number of Frets: 22
Fret Size: Medium Jumbo
Position Inlays: Pearl Dot Inlays
Fingerboard Radius: 9.5"-14" Compound Radius (24.1 cm-35.56 cm)
Fretboard: Rosewood or Maple
Neck Material: Maple
Neck Finish: Satin Urethane
Nut Width: 1.685" (42.8 mm)
Scale Length: 25.5" (64.8 cm)
Neck Plate: 4-Bolt Neck Plate with Micro-Tilt™
Truss Rod Nut: 1/8" American Series Nut
Electronics
Pickup Configuration: H/S/S
Bridge Pickup: Atomic Humbucking™ Pickup
Middle Pickup: Noiseless™ N3 Strat® Middle Pickup
Neck Pickup: Noiseless™ N3 Strat® Neck Pickup
Pickup Switching: Position 1. Humbucking Pickup w/ Coils in Series, Pos. 2. Middle Pickup/Inside Coil of Humbucking Pickup in Parallel, Pos. 3. Middle Pickup, Pos 4. Neck/Middle Pickup in Parallel, Pos. 5. Neck Pickup
Special Electronics: S-1™ Switch
Controls: Master Volume, Tone 1. (Neck Pickup), Tone 2. (Bridge/Middle Pickup)
Hardware
Hardware Finish: Chrome
Bridge: Deluxe 2-Point Synchronized Tremolo with Pop in Arm
String Nut: LSR Roller Nut
Switch Tips: Aged White Switch Tip
Tremolo Arm Handle: Pop-In Deluxe Tremolo Arm
Auxiliary Switching: 2-Position Push/Push "Passing Lane" Switch
SOUNDS
The tone of this guitar is very brilliant and exciting to play. As a nice sustain and a very organic and natural tone. Overall this is a brilliant instrument and a fun guitar play. I love the curvature of the body because it just naturally melts into your guitar stance. It feels comfortable and the tone is very inviting for most styles of music. It doesn't sound like good when you use it in modern type music as far as heavy metal and stuff like that but if you have it in a pop rock country setting in this guitar is a great instrument to use.
OVERALL OPINION
At new you can find these guitar shredder on $1000 or so. You can find them pretty easily and most guitar retailers and online as well as many classified sections. They're brilliant guitar at fun guitar at overall and very inviting sound for any style of music. I recommend this guitar to any guitars out there because it's a solid sounding instrument for recording and gigging.