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Fender Special Edition Esquire Custom GT

TLC-Shaped Guitar from Fender belonging to the Esquire series

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Published on 02/03/09 at 01:46
Corréenne guitar, but be careful not to do with the Squier range! We are here on a real Fender, but obviously with a quality that is not compared to a Fender USD.

No Floyd
A single microphone, Seymour Duncan SH8
Set neck as I understand, it's not a guitar in one piece.

Difficult to assess the color in the photo but I assure you it is very beautiful, a real success in terms of design.

UTILIZATION

Channel pleasant style Telecaster, access to acute (22 frets) particularly easy since the handle is not screwed.
Ultra-light, in about 50 grams ... I'm kidding but it is not incomparable to any other US or Fender Mex, it's a lot of good back!

The lifts are of reasonable quality, especially that this is a gap between the real and Fender Squier corréennes. Over time nothing happens and the defects of fretting that I have seen on a Squier are absent.

SOUNDS

I mainly used this guitar on a Laney TF300, 100-120W with a very neutral, so the personality of the guitar is particularly evident.

The HS8 plays heavily on the sound of this guitar (logical you will tell me). What a catch!
In the clean: to play arpeggios is beautiful, but to play clean agreement is a bit too violent. Simply by reducing the intensity of the volume by this single button on the guitar, it manages to sound very pleasant. But just by pushing through significant micro screws on both sides, it is still insufficient and too aggressive, you need a compressor.
Many of attack but with a microphone like this one is far from pleasant slamming a telecaster.

In distortion, for it against its catches a violent biting well. It is possible to have a nice crunch, but for the perfectionist, hard to get a crunch worthy of the name. I would not still be bought this guitar to play the "crunch" ...

Although not specifically exceptional sustain is pretty good.

[change] I have now acquired a Fender Hot Rod Deville amp 212, the madness, it seems that the amp controls somewhat exuberant aggressiveness of SH8, which can disturb the excessive slamming of this guitar s' found in relatively softens, a real pleasure! [end change]

OVERALL OPINION

I've had 3 or 4 years.
I adore the sound that can be drawn by beautiful arpeggios and melodic power distortion despite the fact that I have a lot down the microphone to make it less aggressive.

I acquired this guitar for just under € 650 and I absolutely do not regret.
This guitar is beautiful, light it from the mouth and sounds good ...

The negatives are clearly the lack of opportunities (a single microphone, just a volume knob), acute and versatile guitar bit aggressive in its strong clean if we play consistent, but hey if that's what we wants to do must not choose this guitar just ...

A guitar that I will definitely, because if it is not perfect, the qualities that can be drawn clearly well worth the effort.