All user reviews for the Fender Special Edition Lite Ash Stratocaster

This guitar t manufactures in Korea. Finally factory is a big word, the correct term would rise. The parts of the guitar does have imported and assembled in factories Cort.
The body is made of ash slectionn marshes. It is in 2 parts. The handle is about him Maple Maple with a touch in 22 boxes. Vibrato is knives. This is the same as that found on models Standart Stratocaster US. Was then at the volume pots and 2 tonalities. the pickup selector offers 5 positions. Microphones bah ah talk. It was here Seymour Duncan Alcino. And frankly, these pickups are great (I'll talk in the section sonority.

USE

The neck is maple in C. It is equipped with 22 boxes. This handle gives a sustain sick, with its clear sound and cirstallin in the treble. It has great precision. Level playability the handle is very very comfortable. The access to the desti- nations most recently frets is done without any worries. The ergonomics are exemplary. It weighs just nearly 3 Kg and is therefore perfect for the scene.
Do you get a good sound with ???? We wonder if we get a good sound with ???
But we have a divine sound with.

SONORITS

It's perfect my style of music. I can play jazz, it ensures, blues, it also ensures, rock is its domain, the Mtal (not nomtal) it is made for. I play Yngwie Malmsteen, Andy Timmons, of Satriani, Deep Purple, the Masterplan, Patrick Rondat, Led Zeppelin, ACDC, Gary Moore. What all !!!
I play with an old Peavey 30W and I use a Zoom GFX1 for effects.
With rglages we get a sound very nice in the bass. The pickups are super gniaux, they have a potato and a precision that rivals the Americans microphones.
Put slecteur in the bridge position and up the distortions you both a brilliant and prominent, prcis, sharp. Sound incoryable !!!
The sound in the midrange resembles that of a hugely Signature Mark Knopfler.
I love these sonorits.
Now I use a Marshall MG100DFX, and I must say that the combination is gniale. I love that sound, sonority can be very hendrixienne. When I use the overdrive with the chorus, I have a merger that is sublime. The MG100DFX-lite ash combo is really great.

NOTICE GLOBAL

I've had just a week. I got it for my birthday.
This guitar is pretty. As well as in aesthetic sound. His feeling is great. I love playing dessus.C'est really the sound of a Stratocaster but with a character that has its own (thanks to micro I think). Actually I tried many models before acqurir. In particular I played on amricaines, ibanez, the Grestch, deluxe player stratovolcano. Signature Mark Knopfler. And I confess this guitar combl me. She did not look but it is a US. I think it's the guitar that suits me the most. Quality level price is unbeatable I think. The equivalent of a US Fender Mark Knopfler 600. With the experience I would do this choice ferms eyes for sure. This guitar is a guitar that I really love the most. I sparerai me for anything.

Manufactured in core
corp in Ash 2 superb parties
22 Fretes, floating bridge wilkinson a 2-point
3 micro single Seymour Duncan SSL1 handle APS1 middle and APS1 easel
micro and electronic location graphite paint was coated on to limit noise, good point.
1 volume and 2 Tone middle handle and 5-way switch
maple neck birdseyes V on the top and flattens slightly down.
it is fine and pleasant, the very fine polish and polish does not stick at all, which is very pleasant.
negative point to finish level: my sleeve mounting plate was screwed slightly askew, there is a micro site that was not to be deep enough when mounting the factory plate and instead of remake a small clean defonce it is put a hammer or screwdriver to dig, no class. and finally the guitar is delivered in cardboard without being regl. (Neck, bridge height and pitch of the bridges.

USE

Handle very comfortable for agreement thumb hole on the top and for a quick game in the bottom of the inning thanks to its ergonomic
access to acute always room because the heel and square apais May remains correct
Legre guitar of solid ash.
after having rgl beautiful, immediately gives a very good sound regardless of the position of the selector, but I have found the seymour too loud and too harmonic, the sound is not enough round slamming too shiny my ears n not support.
I have changed for cobalt semarium fender noiseless and it's all beauty .....
I m scotch. of severe roundness, a crystalline acute slap, responds perfectly to differente attacks. brief happiness.
his blues cry in the neck position and intermediate tres rounder, slamming into middle and even more in bridge for solo dork.
therefore 10/10 with new micro

SONORITS

I play on a roland micro cube and a JCM 800, in 2 cases the sonority are superb, but my neighbors prefers micro cube 2 watts
I play most often in the neck position and ntermedaire middle sleeve.
middle to funk and casseroles.
blues guitar rather ax but little do everything with, rock, funk, jazz, avoiding the extreme.
a small negative point, as soon as we lower the volume to have less and less slamming crunch, acute decline also damage.

NOTICE GLOBAL

I love the, I have a Cort katana complement for the more extreme style that requires more saturation but I mostly use this one at present.
I have tried SEVERAL strat fender before the purchase and I find what Ringer far better than all the other few understood us.
excelent price quality ratio j not hesitate to buy it back, paying attention to Dtail finish. (Well it's hard to disassemble a micro plate in a store)

Korea gear assembly with the USA in the Cort factories. American vibrato bridge / tremolo that (for me) not tune anything if it is not for Floyd, at the same time the guys with this kind of bridge it is expected that the guitar goes out of tune! Should stop criticizing everything and then also out € 1,200 for a Custom Shop with self-locking mechanical. Maple neck with maple fingerboard 22 frets cut V silhouetted C (special, but nice). It is speckled super class, very abalone inlays Custom. 3 Seymour Duncan Alnico (still!) And, as in other strat, 3 buttons flight tone and 5-way switch.

UTILIZATION

Channel super nice! So, without contradicting that negative opinions can give, I think there are good and bad lite ash. It's like anything, they do not all plants with the same quality out, that's why there are luthiers, these are people that you adjust your guitar and ho magic, can be improved by changing the you do not like! I actually changed and the bridge pickup (not my sound, too loud) against a hot rails, the nut (poor quality must be said) against a resin plant in mechanical and cons of self-locking Kluson Deluxe. The guitar takes a standard strat body so super well balanced and certainly a little heavier BECAUSE IT'S ASH and that's it for me that's the beauty of this guitar, super natural finish that recalls those of the period CBS 1970. The sound is good to stop! It is super versatile, and after CAN CHANGE EVERYTHING YOU WANT IF IT DOES NOT PLEASE!

SOUNDS

I'm looking for a sound ranging from surf rock to blues, so I changed everything accordingly (the middle is for me very well for surfing with a good reverb). For me the pickups are good, much better than the stuff "classic '60 'found on the Southwestern who have no class and made limited. Here we are on a SINGLE guitar to tame, it's not like a Fender Clapton Shadows or other, that is clear, but not limited to that, she stands out. I play a Vox AC15 tube, rendering is excellent, the microphones respond really well, and let the varnish very well pass sound. Must call a spade a spade, this guitar worth.

OVERALL OPINION

I have since 2009 (I had the time to draw a little haha). I tried a bunch of guitars, the Southwestern, jap and us. This kind of guitars you see everywhere and everyone. This one is really unique, all luthiers who could see were surprised by his record compared to this little annotation behind the "made in korea" head. The price / quality ratio is excellent, really, the paint is perfect, the handle does not move and is very GOOD QUALITY. Ok, some elements should be changed, and this is called "taking care of his instrument." I respect much a musician who drags a guitar that looks to force him to customize a guitar enthusiast who changes every 6 months without ever being happy.
You want quality Fender? You want a single instrument? For cheap? Find you a Lite Ash.

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UTILIZATION

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SOUNDS

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OVERALL OPINION

a very good guitar has changed wish (the origin of Seymour are pretty well set apart the bridge alone is yuck).
if the violin is very well, the mechanical hold well the agreement unless we take for hendrix with vibrato (2 points that we can settle the floating gilmour), the electron is very neat, the sound is classic fender very hendrix, gilmour sometimes, ideal for blues, rock, reggae, funk to send after it's more complicated enough Corones bridge pickup.
I would say to make it perfect ... almost have to put it:
two trigger guard stock
a nut graphtec
is quite cheap for the power used optimally in the first place.
off topic: j possesses in a and c is a great guitar ... customize its name: Strat nat

Guitar "assembly" in the Cort factory in South Korea = is a Cort with Fender written on it!!!!!!


Tremolo with 2 anchors, maple neck with 22 frets V, nut plastoc hollow, 3 Seymour Duncan Alnico pickups, the APR1 found only oem. Ash body with lacquer is so thick that it does not resonate ...

A fold plate not rigid enough ....

UTILIZATION

Guitar that sounds nice at first but neither the wood nor the fittings are of good quality ... I have graded the handle that still experiencing trouble in terms of binding, a Scheduling is essential!!!!

A Squier Classic vibe is much more advisable choice, better built, better finished and much more homogeneous ...

SOUNDS

Some say, does it sound "Strat", this is false, the microphones and the design of the guitar does not simply permit!!

Ears, ears, ears ...... it sounds like a cort in truth ....

OVERALL OPINION

I do not use more ... disgusted by the sound of other real strats ...

I will never buy from that!!!!

Ash seems to be one of the most under utilized woods by Fender, and I find that surprising considering that ash was the body wood of the first 10 original '54 strats. It's a great body wood, but you have to properly match the pickups, or else it can get a bit too odd sounding. The guitar features a lite ash body, a maple neck, 22 frets, dot inlays, a modern two point style tremolo system, three single coils, one volume, two tones and a five way switch.

UTILIZATION

The fretwork on this was pretty good. The ends were rounded off nicely, and they weren't cut back like I've seen on some other guitars. Some people just take a hard 45 degree angle when cutting fret ends, and I find that tends to be a mistake as the frets will fall off the fretboard. These didn't have such an extreme angle. The frets themselves were mostly level, but there were a few that were slightly low. It was only noticeable when you started bending past 1 and 1/2 steps with medium to low action. The nut was cut properly, so no issues there. The neck joint was also fairly tight with just a small gap. The bridge is awesome, and I find this to be much better feeling than the vintage style one.

SOUNDS

The guitar has SCN pickups installed in it. For those that don't know, these are the special pickups that Bill Lawrence made with Fender. They're super silent, have tons of power and work great for guitars like this. The bridge pickup is very modern and powerful. It can do metal without too much of an issue. The middle + bridge is good for clean, funky sounds. The middle pickup alone sucks, but I hate the middle alone. The neck + middle works awesome for cleans, and the neck is great for lead tones. The guitar also had the S1 switch put on it, but I find that to be fairly useless.

OVERALL OPINION

These are great guitars, and the extra bottom end of the ash body really gives this guitar something special in terms of tone. Alder is a good wood, but I like to mix it up with ash once in awhile. If you're looking for that strat tone but slightly different, get this guitar.

Manufacturing corréenne
22 frets, 3 single coil Seymour Duncan
3 knob, one volume and two tones (normal for a stratum)
handle that goes from V to C

A guitar very well finished, comfortable handle, the buzz is limited to a single coil

UTILIZATION

The neck is wonderful, the V in place to make serious good barred, the C sharp to rotate the thumb comfortably for the solo.
Access is very easy to acute
A bit heavy, but it's not a Les Paul
We get easily a good sound, the knob has a great influence on the sound, it should by no means neglected the tone.
A small problem, I sold it incorrectly set

SOUNDS

I play rock, punk to metal.
For grunge, blues in my gods, one wonders, of his round, or slamming rule according to how the knob, a merveillle.
She does not like the heavy distortion or she comes out a sound draft. She appreciates the fuzz on the other hand, the crunch also.
She is not afraid of punk, it's just limited to the large distortion, that's all I can blame him.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for 4 months and I am fully satisfied, it's my first guitar. I just had to find a handle as wonderful as cete on guitar.
I hesitate with a Mexican Fat Start, but I go on seeing the dress of this beautiful blonde.
The value for money is exellent.
I do it again without hesitation that the choice.

This is a great investment, but beware! Fans of hard rock, metal and punk, go your way. Fender micro typical configuration, and a wood species (frne), with excellent sound quality. Perfect instrument for blues, rock, jazz, and ... That's it! This instrument does assembled in Korea, on assembly lines in CORT, (work so very very careful), the specifications rpondant Fender, and all provided by Fender. (Wood and hardware).
Report quality / price, 10 / 10!

UTILIZATION

The handle is in Saddle profile Mouchet C, modern type, with a grip quite enjoyable, even if not painted. Too bad! This does not prevents it from being really good trs. CHAC is easy j'usqu 'the 20 th box, a little freestyle to del ... Given the profile of the handle, everything seems possible. The guitar is lgre and rsons beautifully, even in the sound - it's a good sign! As for her, once the instrument rgl - bridge, bridges, strings, pickups, nothing wrong. However, once the instrument dballe good rglage gnral required: For my part, I mounted the ropes with a draft more importantly, more sustain, which implies a tad tighten the tremolo in the box. Then, think also tighten mcaniques on the head, which tend to be up a bit lightweight. Let us not forget the microphones ... handle: 0.5 0.4 bass to treble, middle: 0.45 0.4; and bridge: 0.4 0.3. And all lights on an amp, the sound!

SOUNDS

For his blues rock, nothing wrong, even if my taste, the three Seymour Duncan sound a little too modern. A little mtalliques. Submitted but the sound is at once the entire sleeve. Good big potato, which has nothing to envy signatures US models, including ... Good clear sound, clean, burr-free, nickel, what!

OVERALL OPINION

This is an excellent base dpart, given the price, quality wood, varnished, microphones, and the handle. The electronics are irrprochable. This instrument MRIT my eyes, the type of microphones mounted specially Texas or even riding a 50's neck, V, for the shape and quality of varnish. But that's a matter of personal taste, of course! Otherwise, given the price, and after trying many other models US, Japan and Mexico, here is my ranking: 1 in, MODEL Japan in two, tied with US moddele mod the Core, and very far behind, the models against Mexicans plate pasteboard ...
In addition, the instrument is really beautiful. There is one thing to take into Whereas: given the quality of violin making, wood species, and microphones on them, it took crop elsewhere for that price on the market : strings a bit shitty, fold plate 1, rgl no instrument at all, and sold in its raw dcoffrage cardboard, without cover or tui. If you kindly note DCID invest, do you bring tools to the rule, a beautiful tui - because she MRIT and a plate a little more rigid support for mieus microphones . Good luck!

US spices, mounted in Korea by Cort.
Finish ok, not RULES delivery (Thomann).
Channel CV
Seymour Duncan
I find the version of "wood" and "beige" ugly, mine is all black body and pickguard, too bad the race remains frne too clear with the body color, but you get used to.

UTILIZATION

Channel trs enjoyable, and end that slides well, ais throughout the race. Although balance, a good strat what!
For his is the classic, given my style (noise-rock) probably I would change the neck pickup for a seymour burn a few more times. in the high noisy microphone in the middle is perfect.

SOUNDS

I needed a guitar of quality affordable and versatile, can pass fine delay are clear attacks more noisy and it satisfies me completely. As I said I would change the neck pickup can be for a more bold on the big riff.
Not too many breath also in micro, it's always apprciable.

OVERALL OPINION

6 months I have 500 and I am made happy, and in this price range I would do the same choice.
Now the next one will be a Jaguar US

We are talking about the lite ash (ash lightweight in French) made in Korea.
the body is two pices of marsh frne US selectionn.trs good sustain.
the pickups are Seymour Duncan aps1n (neck), aps1wrp (middle), aps1b (bridge). trs good microphones microphones galant fender us, I would say they dpassent lots.
vibrato is a classic for a stratovolcano.
a 5-way switch, one volume and two tones

UTILIZATION

The handle is birdeye Saddle and the boxes touche.22 easily accessible, the handle has a V-shape, rather spcial like me when we play mainly Ibanez JEM.
the guitar is trslgre, one of the most suremenr lgre the march and the sound is excellent, worthy of a amricaine.

SOUNDS

I play with a classic 30 (peavey for those who do not know), the stratum is the ultra versatile lens to the sound of hard rock until 1990, I do not use effects from the reverb of the amp and I use the heavy distortion of the amplifier saturation (all lamps is Ingala)

OVERALL OPINION

I have tried many MODELS, amricaines understood, and I can tell you that the lite is undoubtedly the best quality price, fender sound with a nice price.
all the spices that make it up are amricaines but core is mounted in the factory cort.la quality is to go and also the price especially if the info I receive from the thomann.pour 'I paid 490euros including shipping!
in France the best price is 580euros, there is no comparison .......

- US Matos
- Made in Korea
- 3 AlcinoPro2 (simple), Seymour is the
- Channel V and C
- 2 point tremolo (Wilkinson)
- Ash body, maple fingerboard and neck (for natural)

Nothing to say on the material, the only thing, the mechanisms are not super super but it's mounted quibble. . .

UTILIZATION

- The handle is one of the highlights of this guitar, it's just terrible, it's weird at first but it is really nice and great to use!

- The scratch is quite light and is especially super strong, large falls frankly did make small marks, one wipe and talk about it more!

- Vibrato is terrible!

SOUNDS

- The clean sound, well it is a treat, with the settings you everything you want obteint (of the severe acute crystal-clear voluptuous), I played on a Fender 212 R Fender it sounds a max, a treat!

- Saturation, it works well but not his forte anyway, the range of use is high with these micro rather modern form on this fiftieth anniversary is doing so we still good for anything n ' is not HARD (porn actor friends will see Ches ibanez)!

OVERALL OPINION

- I use it for over a year, it has not moved, still Nikel!

- The neck and vibrato are really great, super clear sound, but once again it's not a guitar to make hard (together ca seems logical but sometimes I can see I prefer to say) . . .

- Nothing like a Mexican with a moderate handle normal, vibrato and microphones screwed a bit bland: this guitar is really well above!

- The value for money is simply HUGE!

- I would do this choice without a doubt!

Korean manufacturing
22 Medium Jumbo Frets
Synchronized Bridge 2 Points
Classical setting strat (Volume, 2 tones, 5-way switch)
3 Seymour Duncan Single:
Channel APS-1N
APS-middle 1RWRP
Bridge APS-1B
Light ash body, maple C neck, maple keys "speckled"
Only three colors: Black, white and vintage natuel

UTILIZATION

The handle is rather C V is .. There's a point in the middle which gives great comfort is the game solo, but less fun for the bars. The bends are very nice, it glides well.
Even if the body is ash light ash that remains. So the average weight (3.6 kg). Access to all strata as acute, but not a lot better.
The vibrato is pretty cool, but it's not a floyd. So often detune, and standard stroke. The midpoint of the vibrato is excellent against! The stem is in place too.

SOUNDS

I use a marshall hybrid AVT50X.
In the clean sound is very round and warm with all of the potassium the milieu, but the SD pickups really allow a broader range of sound.
In OD, the sound is catchy. The microphones were still single punch! It can range from crisp to its fat, but not much. But microphones require simple, if using a single mirco at a time, there is some noise if it is close to the amp.
This guitar is perfect for style blues to rock, even hard rock. But in metal, I recommend.
I recommend going to listen to the microphones at the site of Duncan.

OVERALL OPINION

Cete guitar at an incredible price / quality ratio, for sure. The design is nice, but it lacks color. But the neck is really pretty!
This is the way to have a Fender Stratocaster quality, better than the standard Mexican. I was hesitant Korean side, but I'm not disappointed, the patent is good, basic settings factory are more than adequate. Lil detail, the plate at the rear is ugly!
In short, I'm not disappointed, and I recommend it, especially if you have a hybrid or tube amp (micro SD have a round that goes well with).

SOUNDS

If you want a real fender, this guitar does not satisfy you.
Due to the quality of their microphones, it is much more modern and a real personality possde but do not compare a strat USD. The sound is less round, more bold.
With saturation (as low leve), it excels.
His big flaw is the pickup, too crillard its clear, the knob of Tone does not change anything, ineffective.
I put a 8 causes the bridge pickup.

OVERALL OPINION

I recommend this guitar but not for those seeking a real stratocaster because the use is s'aperoit it is different, more modern.
It's a great guitar: Luter, electronics, tremolo, pickups (except neck), color (vintage white).
Perfect for blues, rock and possibly jazz.
Least for the most demanding music in the sound as folk, country, the surf, nashville

Manufacturing Core
Body inhibits the marshes known as "lightweight"
Saddle moouchet handle modern type C
(Satin Polyurethane Finish)
9.5 Radius (241mm)
Frets 22 Medium Jumbo frets
Pickups: Seymour Duncan APS-1N, APS-1RWRP, APS-1B, (Neck / Middle / Bridge) (APS = Alnico Pro Staggered)
Controls Master Volume,
Tone 1. (Neck Pickup),
Tone 2. (Middle / Bridge Pickups)
Pickup Switching 5-Position Blade:
Position 1. Bridge Pickup
Position 2. Bridge and Middle Pickup
Position 3. Middle Pickup
Position 4. Middle and Neck Pickup
Position 5. Neck Pickup
Bridge 2-Point Synchronized Tremolo
Machine Heads Cast / Sealed Tuning Machines
Pickguard 1-Ply Black
Abalone inlays

Mine is vintage white, I might be prfr black but I took what was and finally I like it.
The neck and fingerboard are really beautiful. The bridges are amricains type.
Unlike what I read my own silent livrergle nothing wrong.
The history of the pickguard is really because it's a quibble but also ply pais as 3 ply. There are some who must spend their time looking for the small bte is not possible!

UTILIZATION

The neck is super: dj sumptuous and extremely enjoyable.
The frets are jumbo say plutt thin allowing a low action and a set ais.
Access in acute is as easy as the other sleeves type C.
I thought I frne marshes lightweight lightweight but the silent frankly I do not see any diffrence with the other models alder body. As against what is enjoyable is to feel the vibrations through the body of the guitar: it is one with. I never had that feeling before.
Gnral good ergonomics.
Obviously we get a good sound right away, it's not for nothing that exists Fender!

SOUNDS

We are dealing Seymour Duncan pickups: typs "modern": sr is that the sound is not the same as the standard stratos. L is the intrt of this guitar, if you have to take an other models.
I use an amp H & K Matrix 100 Watts, excellent and a multi-effects Zoom G2.1u o we go out all sounds.
It is clear that this guitar is not for the hard or mtal, but with little gain or modlisations not clean the sound is pchu.
I play a lot of pop-rock, nothing mchant.
I mainly play with the microphone in position 3 that best fits that, having my ears. Position 5 is smooth and the 1st is too "Deutsche" I can not get used to it.
So to blame plutt that this guitar to sound like no other, know that good people are diffrent Stratocaster each other, and if so it is DIFFERENT microphones for sounds much Different. So if you buy a Lite Ash APRS to complain that the sound is not quite vintage: rflchissez: you had to buy a stratovolcano with vintage microphones. If so has there!
A lite ash is to have a more modern sound, allowing versatility.
Remember to try before you buy it? Nan because when you read the comments you wonder sometimes!

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for several months.
I like his good looks, excellent finish, the sound aspect Different.
I have lots of MODEL and I really versatility.
I bought it around 400 in nine state still in its packing carton, so that mean?
Of course I do it again this election!