All user reviews of 5/5 for the Fender Standard Stratocaster HSS [2006-2008]

Also purchased in the USA, the color apple red (Metallic) is not available in Europe.
- Alder body (heavier than a standard mexico
- Maple neck with maple soft key V very fast
- Vibrato with vintage engraved bridges fender.
- Mechanical fender us very precise
- 2 vintage microphones 60 'with a lot of grain and dual Fender Wide Range very typical Jazzmaster
- Exceptional finish for a strat mexico


USE

One of the rounds of the fastest fender, soft and pleasant, it comes quickly tease the last boxes. Very soft frets.
This is a strat so there is no better level ergonomics.
For sound, we are in the registry vintage fender with a bonus of potato on the double.

SOUNDS

The sound is crystal-slamming and nothing to do with European standard strat mexico. It sounds very vintage fender on simple ... A delight for blues and rock. The double wide-range sounds like a simple clean but once you put the overdrive, it takes a lot of body and magnitude. This is very roots but allows for more sustain and safe for leads. Besides all the guitar seems made for soloists fast neck, sonnorité on top, power microphones.

NOTICE GLOBAL

The moral of this guitar bought in 2007 really is a good purchase. So even put a little more, you are interested to products sold by Fender in the USA: they have a reputation to maintain and strat mexico sold there are assembled with US coins. A very good buy, nothing to envy the American standard.
The humbucker Wide Range is one of the best on the market, it offers grain and power.

- In which country was it made? (United States, Japan, Mexico, France ...)

MADE IN MEXICO

Oulaah the rest I did not know, it's been 2 months I started playing the guitar.

UTILIZATION

- The handle is it fun? I think yes

- Access to acute (recent freight) is it easy? ditto
- Ergonomics is it good (in terms of shape, weight ...)? I love the shape

- Gets it easy to sound good? ... p'tit coupled with a Vox Valvetronix 15w of sound is simply deadly! I think I made the best couple for a beginner

SOUNDS

- They are suitable to your style of music?
I like playing punk stuff that look like Santana, the sound is excactement that I wanted. I board Guibson tested the SG of a friend and frankly except that the SG is more comfortable (and more expensive) the sound is almost the same.

I play with a Vox Valvetronix 15watts
-Saturated sound, nothing to say
-Clean sound, same

-Favorite sounds: modern Uk

OVERALL OPINION

- How long have you use it?
2 months

- What is so special that you like most and least?
I find beautiful black and white, there is nothing I like least about this guitar, but I speak as a beginner.

- Have you tried many other models before buying it?
No, but the seller I was immediately advised that the, j'avous than others in the same price range did not make the weight!

- How would you rate the quality / price?
Fender quality at an affordable price that you ask for?

- With experience, you do again this choice? ...
Oh yes ... It is even the envy of my friends guitar

It comes from mexico.
The handle is made with 21 frets Saddle (damn, he could make 22!)
the tremolo is all there is more classic (with a slight game thread of the stem)
Micro HSS (which I do not know).

UTILIZATION

remains a Start ...

SOUNDS

It should virtually every style, though somewhat lgre for the metal. the rest is happening everywhere.
Saddle handle provides a more banging.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for a year since I made my flight strat mexico I had for 15 years (if I wanted this swelling, he would leave with chicos and less) and I wanted the same. I took a little fat for a more versatile thanks to the humbucker.
I bought mine on thommann especially for an issue price => 200 less than in France plays. plus the guys or I'm stores are not very cool instrument and the ptent too. musicians certainly disappointed in not having pierced but certainly not the sellers ..
very good product for the price and I remade dja this choice because the flight ..

This is a 21-fret, standard vibrato bridge, maple neck/rosewood fretboard Fender Stratocaster -- but one with a humbucker. As you may expect this series is made in Mexico. The controls are the same as usual: one general volume knob, two tone controls (one for each of the single coil mics) and a 5-position selector which allows to combine the mics (from top to bottom: neck pickup only, neck+middle, middle pickup, middle+split humbucker, humbucker alone).

The presence of a humbucker makes this guitar suitable for many more styles than a "normal", three-single coils Strat -- don't expect the stock humbuckers to lead you through metal/thrash though.

UTILIZATION

This is a well-made Stratocaster so as far as playibility is concerned I think this says it all... The SSH configuration brings polyvalence, so finding a suitable sound is easy, just tweak the tone knobs a little while and here you go -- too bad the humbucker originally doesn't have a tone control...
Some people will tell you that a Strat with standard vibrato just can't be kept in tune: do NOT believe them, if you take your time and tune it properly then these variations will hardly be noticeable at all.

SOUNDS

First of all let me tell you that the fact this guitar has a rosewood fretboard DOES matter. I once A/B-ed it with a 1991 US Fender Strat with a maple fretboard and guess what -- I preferred the sound that this cheap Mexican provided (both through my SansAmp GT2 and a friend's Marshall Valvestate). Even in using only the single coils, this guitar provides smooth mediums but can also deliver darker sounds, while a "classical" Strat will always keep that brilliance in sound that has made the legend of the model -- but which makes it less suitable for modern distorted rhythm sounds.
I wanted a guitar that could do the job for a variety of rock styles including blues, pop-rock, hard rock and (mostly) alternative/grunge rock. Even with the original configuration this guitar was well suited to my expectations. Then, I had the idea to have the humbucker (which was a bit too bright-sounding for me) changed for a Seymour Duncan SH-4 (the Jeff Beck one) and connected to a tone knob -- now the guitar sounds even better and metal sounds are no longer out of reach (provided you have what it takes). I mostly play power-chords rhythm so I also changed the strings for 10-52s.

I usually play it through several distorsion stompboxes and a Small Clone chorus into a SansAmp GT-2 & ISP Decimator noisegate, then direct to the mixer (yes, I use no "real" amp, and so what?), and I definitely LOVE the way it sounds. I can get from Clapton to Nirvana or even more "modern" metal sounds with no real effort, and the sustain is more than acceptable (hey, don't expect miracles though, this is a Strat, not a Les Paul!).

The single coils are noisy (as usual) but provide a very mellow sound (especially the one in the neck position) which will get you through the most beautiful sounding and/or country-like ballads -- a compressor, a chorus, a good reverb and here you go!

As said earlier the stock humbucker sounded a bit too bright to me, but it really is usable for vintage hard rock. With the proper mics installed on it I can hardly think of a style on which this guitar couldn't take, by the way...

OVERALL OPINION

I've had this guitar for 8 years now, this is the first (and only to this day) electric guitar that I've owned. With the aforementioned mods that I had performed on it this guitar is now perfectly suited to my intense use of power-chords-rhythm with heavy distorsion -- please note that I'm NOT a soloist or "technical" player in any way.
I had tried a few other guitars before choosing this one -- including a "usual" (3-single-coils) Strat and a few Ibanez (which sounded too metal-oriented to me -- I really wanted to be able to play different styles with the same guitar). I paid it approximately 530€ at the time and I think the quality/price ratio was really great. That's a choice I never regretted and most likely would do again.