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Originally posted by UCfeviwU6C7kEjpOK4C6myuQ at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TKIQJ11Dq0
Do you prefer vintage specs or more modern?
I was an LP player…then I got a Kotzen tele…..I went nuts for the neck pickup and went to Jimi-land and never went back. It literally changed my playing. NO joke.
I forget how tasteful your playing is man. Wonderful intro.
Love how it sounds!!
Killer intro
I put super glue on all my guitars. Otherwise they're not really mine.
Nora Jones, Don't Know Why. Yep.
I like a virgin 1968 Japanese Fender at most! ????
$2600 for a flippin' Strat? No way Jose.
As for vintage vs modern specs, I'll take modern.
Truss rod adjustment at the headstock (or side of the heel, or spoke wheel), bigger frets (and 22 of them), 2 point trem, locking tuners.
Also, this "nitro finish" is bogus. It's just a layer over a poly finish.
Fenders are overhyped and overpriced.
I get that you are giving a plug to Sweetwater, but I haven't had a very great experience the last 3 or 4 times dealing with them. It seems to me that about 2 years ago, they just went downhill. I have had to return a guitar because you could see the wood grain under the paint, and it was supposed to be a solid color.
I also waited for a pickup for months and months and when it finally arrived, I don't know what happened but somebody at Sweetwater had opened up the box I guess to make sure everything was in there, and it came missing some Hardware.
I just ordered a beautiful Ibanez Prestige and had to wait for more to come from Japan.
They told me I would get to choose once they arrived.
Well they arrived the other day and they just sent one to me.
They didn't give me notice, didn't let me choose, they just picked one on their own and sent it, and it wasn't one of have chosen .
They actually stopped it mid route and had FedEx turn it around. So now they have the one that I actually chose in the queue ready to send out to me once they get the other one back. which, by the way, never even arrived at my house.
Why they can't just send me out the one that I already paid for and chose before they get the other one back is beyond me. That was their bad. Anyway, yeah, I guess that's my rant.
Sweetwater has gone downhill over the last couple of years.
Bought my Highway 1 strat almost 20 years ago for $500, my favorite!
My Classic Vibe Squier looks so much like that guitar it’s crazy.
The tobacco juice yellow neck finish is gross and not true to original.
Don't use the terms "old-school styled" and "voiced after." These are standard things. You do not need to embellish with retro zing words. Maybe you should describe the new guitars as changed, and leave the original designs be. They were good enough for a solid twenty years without the hype.
The neck lacquer has tint in it and is too dark. It sure doesn't look like my '54 (a real one).'Three minutes into your video and still have no idea what content or critical examination goes with your video title.
I'd be nice to be able to buy that bridge. Cold rolled steel bridge from Fender sounds pretty cool.
Hey Robert would you maybe be interested in doing a tutorial on the new Van Halen “unfinished” track ?
It would be a really cool way to pay homage to Ed and teach us some classic VH licks.
My '99 Strat is pretty much perfect. The only thing I had to improve was the high E to close to the edge. I fixed it like Erlewine shows in his nut making video.
Too expensive for what you get. That bloody knob gets in the way when you're playing too.
That's beautiful phrasing on your intro song, Robert.
That wide open bridge with a tone pot on the middle pickup IS the #2 sound for me. Five-way switch would be the mod for a vintage spec 50s Stratocaster. And the tone mod on anything 60s and up.
The only good fender are the fenders on my Porsches
Blimey.
I was hoping he was giving it away anyway I'm sold my wife not so but I'm blaming you Rob lol I love this guitar ???? just bought an American Stratocaster about shit it's been about a year can never have too many guitar of course my wife doesn't agree but she usually doesn't anyway lol.
I stripped my American Vintage ii ‘57 Strat body, and I can confirm that the finish is a VERY thick super hard poly finish underneath an overspray of “nitro”. The “nitro” they now use has plasticizers added to it so it will never age or crack/chip like a vintage guitar.
To me this is false advertising, period. I highly recommend people save their money and get an American Professional instead. They’re fantastic guitars, feel and play better than the AVii series, IMO, and cost $1000 less.
Vintage specs are okay, sometimes. The guitar pictured in my icon is a 1987 American Standard. I recently upgraded the pickups to Lace Sensor, but not the period correct gold ones. I did what they referred to as the “rainbow”. Emerald in the neck position, very muddy and bluesy. Silver in the middle, vintage 70s tone. Purple in the bridge position, hot sounding without being active. It did change the sound of the instrument slightly, but still sounds like a Strat.
Bro, you have to review the vintera Tele deluxe. That guitar is a life changer.
are they abandoning the ultra luxe series or will there be an ultra lux 11 soon ???
You are one of the only players who don’t just play metal very pretty I got the player 2 put five springs on it change the sound dramatically, took them off oh and change the strings. Also change the sound, but I broke the high E string anyway.
6:47 Whole 'nother
The small 7.25" fretboard radius made more sense when Fender first designed these guitars. In the early 1950s, nearly all guitar players, even pros, played strictly rhythm. Back then, if you could play something more complicated than a simple melody, or if you knew a few scale patterns, you would be considered a HOT guitarist! So i'm guessing Fender settled on 7.25" for reasons of easierr chording, and did not give equal consideration to single note playing.
I've got American Vintage II '73 strat (natural) and American Vintage II '61 strat (olympic white) and lemme tell you those strats rock! Really high quality guitars! I'm so happy I own these, you would not know!
They've made hundreds of variations on the stratocaster but you can barely tell the difference when hearing the recordings of them. To me a strat is a strat is a strat, with some variations that may make them a bit better or worse but I'm not about to buy the latest flavor strat, it's just another variation on vanilla.
The only variations that matter to me are rosewood or maple fingerboard (rosewood always for me), 3 or 5 way switch, (5 way), hardtail or trem, (hardtail, I never use the trem), plain or 3 layer pickguard. (3 layer just because I like the looks.) And tuners that work well.
Just bought a Vintage II 1961 Fiesta Red Strat, OMG! This looks awesome and feels even better, the tone is classic quack or Texas Blue Steel, I love it! AND it weighs 7.8 lbs, just amazing! Putting a LSR nut on it cause this one screams and dive bombs like an A-10 Thunderbolt II(WartHog)!!!!!