Fender Classic '60s Stratocaster

It is therefore a Stratocaster made in Mexico which remains very good. It emits a visually good impression of high quality. In purely technical level, I made a copy / paste from home thom ...

Classic series
Alder body
Maple neck
Profile Handle: Soft C
Rosewood
21 frets Medium Jumbo
3 single coil pickups Custom '69 Strat
Vintage style synchronized tremolo (2 points)
3-ply mint green pickguard
Scale: 648mm
Width at Nut: 42mm
Color: 3 Tone Sunburst

A strat, neither more nor less, although I would have liked noiseless pickups but hey, at this price ... I am therefore 8.

UTILIZATION

In strict terms of use, bah this is a strat. A priori everybody knows! The handle is very nice, it has a good grip. The rosewood fingerboard is fairly soft.
The guitar is well balanced, the standard weight (it weighs three tons not like a Les Paul) and access to acute is easy enough.
But be careful because past the 17th fret, the notes tend to be slightly distorted. We need to make slight bends to compensate.

I put so again an 8.

SOUNDS

Again no surprise. It is a strat. The sound is bright and rather thin. I was very surprised because U.S. compared to standard models, it has a very warm, round bass. All for much cheaper! And yes, the Stars and Stripes worth its weight in gold (not always justified).

On the neck pickup, it is clearly bluesy tones, sounds very Hendrix and I love it! Through the microphone excels in funky rhythm, the sound is bright and well coated. The bridge pickup sounds it offers more country, so far without being able to compete with the telecaster. It also sounds very good rock and punk / rock with a slight drive. on the other hand you can forget the big distos, this is not the playground!

I play a lot Laboga alligator who put value in this guitar, I really like all the sounds, heat, brightness, sound hendrix anything. The sound spectrum is really wide open! Metalheads pass your way on this guitar.

I put 9 because for me it refers.

OVERALL OPINION

I use this guitar with great pleasure for 5 years, I still can not find major fault blame him ... After all, when you take a strat, we know what we want and what to expect!

For this particular model, the + are:

-The price!
The mechanical-that add vintage charm
The excellent sound-blues / funk and rock (60's and 70's)
-The pleasure of playing on a real strat!
-The reliability of the instrument (never had any problems with)

And -:

-No noiseless pickups
-The maple fingerboard have been proposed ...

I put that 9! Very good guitar, which has not finished rave!

Guitar made in Mexico, with a trim level higher than other Mexican. Maple neck, 21 frets, 3 single coil Strat a basic brief. The pickups are not noiseless but a very good sound anyway because of 9/10.

UTILIZATION

Very nice guitar to play for hours with a reasonable weight, the sound is excellent but the clean guitar is not made for the modern metal (you can still play the Guns' n Roses, Iron Maiden, Led Zeppelin .. .) because of its basic microphones. You can put simple micro size double coils to ameliorate this problem or else little trick I've found, set the switch so as to put two microphones on at the same time, which almost gives the impression of a double winding. For access to treble solos is ultra easy.

SOUNDS

If one chooses a strat, it's mostly for his versatility. It should therefore have all styles of music from blues / jazz rock to heavy metal (again attention to background noise). I play with a marshall amp transistor low-end or sometimes with a tube amp, all the time with a distortion pedal and an overdrive and sometimes a wah for solos Hendrix or Slash (Slash I know with a Strat this sounds weird but it sounds better and is nicer than the Les Paul Studio which are more expensive). What's the numbers can have nothing but the selector buttons and tone of the guitar it's crazy.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it since April I just changed the strings for Ernie Ball Cobalt because I do not like super light gauge supplied with the guitar because once granted half tone lower you got over a lot of tension in the strings. I tried an imitation Les Paul and Les Paul studio before purchasing this choice and I would do the price / quality ratio is very good. I may be putting noiseless pickups but I'm not on good equipment because with the background noise is minimal.

I have a Strato US 6 years and must not be older than ca. So pretty standard configuration (see Opinion Previous).

UTILIZATION

The handle is fairly typical of the types "Strato" enjoyable, but not particulirement fast. Access in acute is correct - no more. It is true that compared my Ibanez I can not really sail will on the bottom of the handle. But it still remains.
The good point is that the guitar is not too heavy and handles easily.

SOUNDS

Quite frankly, this is MODEL - I think - versatile enough on some styles of music. The pickups are so lacking in power - especially the high - it will spend another guitar if you want to sound a little louder. I play on a Vetta HD (200W) that sounds great with my Ibanez - however I have to get the maximum gains on the Strato and the amp for what spits something in saturated. The crunch is just right (neck pickup position you leave all of the same riffs pretty cool) but you have to push the amp that sounds. The clear sound when he is good, but lacks depth (despite qualisation)

Hard fans, this guitar is not for you!

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for 6 years - but I stopped the dernire anne - passing on another guitar.
I like the blues crunch and then the "face" (as it reminds me of many of my "guitar heroes!").
I like less the fund that is a little cheap plastic, the power of microphones, the rapidity of the handle.
Today I would look several times before even prendrela RULING. Or - what I'm doing - I would do an up-grade microphones with something more potato (DiMario etc.)..