Fender 70th Anniversary American Ultra Stratocaster Amethyst | Demo and Overview with Taylor Gamble
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The Fender 70th Anniversary American Ultra Stratocaster serves up a gorgeous amethyst finish, along with a roasted maple neck in a modern D shape, HSS pickup configuration with S-1 switch, 10″-14″ compound radius and 22 medium-jumbo frets with rolled edges.
“I remember thinking, ‘What is so particular about the Strat sound that everybody loves so much?’” says guitarist Taylor Gamble (Stevie Wonder, Victoria Monét, Ari Lenox). “Then, after my grandfather’s passing, I ended up with his electric-blue Stratocaster, and the neck and body felt good, and it was light. It felt great. I’m a tone girl, and the thing I love about Strats is no matter what pickup position you choose, you are always going to cut through. And, of course, you can get so many different tones out of a Stratocaster, from rock to country to R&B and gospel. It literally does everything.”
Gamble enjoys the American Ultra’s HSS pickup configuration because she loves humbuckers, but she also finds lots of uses for the single-coil settings. “I love the neck single-coil, for example, because it sounds warm and well-rounded, but with slap and punch. I’m inspired to play pretty chords and more open voicings.”
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Chapters
00:00 – Intro with Taylor Gamble
00:51 – Taylor’s History with the Fender Stratocaster
01:37 – First Impressions of the 70th Anniversary American Ultra Stratocaster HSS Amethyst
02:50 – Demo: Pickup Position #5 (Neck Pickup)
04:04 – Demo: Pickup Position #5 with Reverb and Chorus
05:15 – Demo: Pickup Position #4 (Neck and Middle Pickups)
06:05 – Playing Fingerstyle on the American Ultra Amethyst Stratocaster
07:09 – A Closer Look at the Neck
08:22 – Taylor On Playing a Stratocaster in a Gospel Setting
08:52- Demo: Pickup Position #3 (Middle Pickup)
09:11 – Taylor On the Durability and Comfortability of the Neck
09:58 – Demo: Pickup Position #2 (Bridge and Middle Pickups)
11:32 – Freedom of Movement with the Compound Radius Neck
12:14 – Demo: Pickup Position #1 (Bridge Pickup in Humbucker Mode)
12:58 – Demo: Pickup Position #1 (Bridge Pickup in Single Coil Mode)
13:34 – Taylor On the Consistency of the American Ultra Amethyst’s Neck
14:36 – Overview and Demo: Hot Voicing
16:03 – Taylor’s Thoughts on the Fender 70th Anniversary American Ultra Stratocaster HSS Amethyst
17:26 – Outro
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What are your thoughts on 70th Anniversary American Ultra Amethyst Stratocaster? Let us know in the comments! ????
Beautiful guitar and a great demo of the real sound of it, i.e. not swamped in overdrive and other effects. Find it ironic they used a compound radius for the anniversary, when poor old Wayne Charvel who invented it while at Fender, was pushed out and had to go to Jackson guitars.
If I had the money I would 100% buy this one especially in this color and with black pickguard.
Are they stainless steel frets ?
You sold me, This might be my next guitar. I own a Mod Shop HSS which is based on the American Professional. My neck is Maple C to D and I have locking tuners and the PUs are 4th gen noiseless. This looks just a little better. Great playing, BTW.
Well,I’m sold
I can see that guitar as a perfect companion for a RnB, hip hop, funk gig player ….. damn
Someone do a cut of this where it cuts to a hand holding a phone showing a $1000 bank balance before she says “with all the zeros”
Yes, please.
That is the best looking color and with the roasted neck and black pickguard…..big winner!
For 2.5k better I buy 3 Sire S7
lefty
Just got mine yesterday, and videos/photos do it ZERO justice. It's, hands-down, the most beautiful guitar I've ever seen. Full stop. The finish is different in every light, and it is mesmerizing to look at. The neck feel is soooooooo smooth and great, and the quality makes me understand why American Strats are just absolutely worth the money, and for me – I couldn't have spec'd a better guitar if I had gone custom shop. New favorite guitar, and I own 13 so it has competition!! Sounds fantastic (though, it sounds way better with Ms. Gamble playing it – but that's just operator error lol), plays effortlessly, and it's an instant dopamine hit every time you look at it. This is not a paid review by the way, I'm just in love with this thing that much that it sounds like it !! haha
Really?
I would trade my current ultra for this one. I see the cobra blue in this one too.
$2500 for a strat? Fender has lost their minds.
Only thing it's missing is stainless steel frets!
Great player! I love her unique style and approach. Cool demo and I think the color is awesome. My only wish is that it had an ebony fingerboard 🙂
I’d wish these new demos were without talking and multi effects pedals.
How mucking fuch?
You play so good I agree with you HSS Stratocaster is the best to play keep doing it girl.????????????????
I have this in my Guitar Center cart now I know I want to per order it.
When will preorders ship!
She’s an awesome player and really beautiful person
wonderful, wonderful!
That is a BEAUTIFUL finish
Too bad they don’t feature STAINLESS STEEL FRETS ????
What a cool person and beautiful guitar and effective clip. Apparently over 50% of new guitar players and purchasers are women, so kudos to Fender for being with the times and showcasing this guitarist. I do wish she used less compression in some of her funkier playing (it's like hearing someone singing or saying everything at exactly the same volume, without dynamics or punctuation), even though it's common in funk, but it portrays that the player isn't confident they can play a funk riff consistently or smoothly, and that's why compression was originally used by some funk players. (Cory Wong does this too, in all of his playing, including lead, which is like using training wheels.) Guitarists like SRV and Hendrix were about fighting compression (including from their amps, etc.) and trying to get as much dynamics (i.e., personality) and expression and open sound as possible in their playing. Also, I've played the stock version of this guitar–the pickups (like many noiseless ones) are dull and muted (like there's a blanket over the amp). It's still usable, but it's a shame that no one's perfected the noiseless single coil yet. Yes, these are just my opinions. Yours are equally valid.
Bella/linda.????????????????????????????
good video . she is awesome !
She’s good! What a beautiful guitar.
Simplesmente linda❤
I appreciate the 30 seconds of playing and 20 minutes of talking lol
Your sound are very nice
When you get the guitar
How much rework such as take and reset Action or anything
Also what Gage and brand of string are you using
Do you have a link for the line6 pod Go
Sounds and Looks that niiiiiiiiice
This Gitti makes me fall in love again
It's gonna be wild seeing what Fender does 30 years from now
What a cool, down-to-earth lady and what a great guitar player!
Damn. I want that color in a tele