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Jiloo_music « Beautiful violin, a true 54 »
Published on 11/27/14 at 03:57
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Manufactured by Fender in Japan, it is the 54 Strat Limited Edition 2013;
The violin is beautiful, with a very light body Ash (guitar 3.2kg) in 2 parts clear enough, with beautiful veins, 2 tone sunburst finish, gorgeous nitrocellulose lacquer,
Soft Channel V, 7.25-inch radius gloss maple fingerboard with adjustable truss rod body, mechanical vintage, vintage vibrato bridge 6 points.
The assembly is perfect, the quality violin is the same level as my American Vintage 62RI.
3 single-coil pickups and volume controls 3/2 are classic Strat tones,
with the selector handle 5 positions / sleeve + middle / middle / middle + bridge / bridge.
This guitar tu perfection, if not the microphones that are improved.
UTILIZATION
The peculiarity of the Strat 54 is the handle Soft V, a little thicker than the C 60s, and therefore a little less comfortable and fast, matter of habit.
The 7.25 radius, I'm used to with my 62RI, but it's a little less easy for bends the modern 9.5-inch radius (or even 12 "or even offset 9/14")
Potentiometers and selector are very soft rotation, accurate and effective.
By changing the pickups, I changed the switch to a Fender Classic, but not the knobs that satisfy me completely.
very light weight is very comfortable.
SOUNDS
I wanted to complete my 62RI Strat pickups equipped with Irish Tour for the Blues-Rock,
a Strat to the most original sounds, clear and slap to play the blues:
Japan 54 microphones give this classic sound but with a lot of bass and volume;
so I took a promotion to equip with Fender Custom Shop 54, which give a more balanced B / M / T, better defined, and making better highlight the intermediate positions 2 and 4, with richer arrangements, but the volume is a little low.
With Ibanez TSA15 blues sound is superb enough velvety,
Vox NT2 head with the sound is slamming, which brings me to drop the treble;
the built-in Ibanez TS9 well preserved rich tone and brightness, gender Fender Blues Junior but slightly less acute.
the body ultralight Ash gives a surprising resonance and sustain, even longer than my US 62 RI alder; my Mexican pales in the face of this quality!
OVERALL OPINION
I acquired it recently, I just change his pickups for CS54,
so I have not done the trick, but it already gives me exactly what I was looking in sound and style;
I wanted a typical Strat 54 (Ash body, soft V neck, slap microphones 2TS, maple fingerboard).
I was very disappointed with the quality of the violin Fender Classic Series 50 while the sound was not so bad,
Fender 60th Anniversary US do not like it because of its gold hardware,
American Vintage 54 is great but too expensive for its definition,
and Custom Shop is not in my budget:
this made in Japan with the addition of 54 Custom Shop pickups and a Fender hard case, is priced at US 60th birthday but more faithful to the original definition, and with a violin in the level of American Vintage 54 almost 2 times more expensive.
The violin is beautiful, with a very light body Ash (guitar 3.2kg) in 2 parts clear enough, with beautiful veins, 2 tone sunburst finish, gorgeous nitrocellulose lacquer,
Soft Channel V, 7.25-inch radius gloss maple fingerboard with adjustable truss rod body, mechanical vintage, vintage vibrato bridge 6 points.
The assembly is perfect, the quality violin is the same level as my American Vintage 62RI.
3 single-coil pickups and volume controls 3/2 are classic Strat tones,
with the selector handle 5 positions / sleeve + middle / middle / middle + bridge / bridge.
This guitar tu perfection, if not the microphones that are improved.
UTILIZATION
The peculiarity of the Strat 54 is the handle Soft V, a little thicker than the C 60s, and therefore a little less comfortable and fast, matter of habit.
The 7.25 radius, I'm used to with my 62RI, but it's a little less easy for bends the modern 9.5-inch radius (or even 12 "or even offset 9/14")
Potentiometers and selector are very soft rotation, accurate and effective.
By changing the pickups, I changed the switch to a Fender Classic, but not the knobs that satisfy me completely.
very light weight is very comfortable.
SOUNDS
I wanted to complete my 62RI Strat pickups equipped with Irish Tour for the Blues-Rock,
a Strat to the most original sounds, clear and slap to play the blues:
Japan 54 microphones give this classic sound but with a lot of bass and volume;
so I took a promotion to equip with Fender Custom Shop 54, which give a more balanced B / M / T, better defined, and making better highlight the intermediate positions 2 and 4, with richer arrangements, but the volume is a little low.
With Ibanez TSA15 blues sound is superb enough velvety,
Vox NT2 head with the sound is slamming, which brings me to drop the treble;
the built-in Ibanez TS9 well preserved rich tone and brightness, gender Fender Blues Junior but slightly less acute.
the body ultralight Ash gives a surprising resonance and sustain, even longer than my US 62 RI alder; my Mexican pales in the face of this quality!
OVERALL OPINION
I acquired it recently, I just change his pickups for CS54,
so I have not done the trick, but it already gives me exactly what I was looking in sound and style;
I wanted a typical Strat 54 (Ash body, soft V neck, slap microphones 2TS, maple fingerboard).
I was very disappointed with the quality of the violin Fender Classic Series 50 while the sound was not so bad,
Fender 60th Anniversary US do not like it because of its gold hardware,
American Vintage 54 is great but too expensive for its definition,
and Custom Shop is not in my budget:
this made in Japan with the addition of 54 Custom Shop pickups and a Fender hard case, is priced at US 60th birthday but more faithful to the original definition, and with a violin in the level of American Vintage 54 almost 2 times more expensive.