Fender Classic Series '72 Telecaster Deluxe
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Excelent!
Excelent guitar, powerfull clean tones and Drives with definition. Nice shape.
Nice reissue
A lot of people tell me the pickups of this guitar aren't that good and that's a scam from Fender. I particulary like the sound, feel and features of the guitar. Kind of heavy but comfty. The fretboard is great.
what they mean is that the pickups aren't actually authentic. They are fine if you want a PAF-style humbucker with a bar magnet charging 6 steel screws. A real Fender wide-range humbucker from the 70s has adjustable magnetic polepieces made of an alloy nicknamed 'cunife' and is more of a split singlecoil like a p-bass split-pickup only way more refined. Its a really unique humbucker tone for those reasons and because the coils are really big, sensing the string with a very large magnetic window. Also, having polepiece magnets these pickups have the strong string pull associated with, say, a tele pickup that literally influences the way the string vibrates.
Again, there is nothing wrong with the humbuckers in your guitar, they are just not accurate reproductions of the vintage originals so people get down on them. Chris Shifflet of the Foo-Fighters likes regular humbuckers in a tele deluxe so much that his custom model ahs regular Gibson-type PAFs in it. Viable sound, nothing wrong with it. If you are ever curious abut what a real wide-range humbucker sounds like contact Curtis Novak and have him make you a set of authentic ones and drop them in your tele. It will eat sustain but open the sound up dynamically and widen your frequency bandwidth, restoring its tele twang.
eh
i like it but its not amazing feel a bit iffy for my style i hit my hand on the top of the body because of the shape so I added duct tape to soften when my arm brushes against it it has a seymour duncan JB in the bridge position
the best first guitar
well, this was the first guitar i ever bought, i don't like the pickups, but the design it's awesome. it's very comfortable to play. the toggle switch its crap. but all of this stuffs make a really special guitar. my favorite guitar ever.
Great Playing Guitar with a few flaws.
The guitar is constructed beautifully. Its exactly what you expect for the price. But my main problem with this guitar is that for a reissue it is massively electronically different to its original counter-part. The pots are 250k as standard and the "Wide-Range Humbuckers" aren't wide range humbuckers at all. I wasn't expecting exact Seth Lover replicar PuPs but at least a true wide range humbucker instead you get a normal humbucker incased in extra wax to make it wider. If you want to make this guitar sound infinitely better on a budget replace the 250k pots with 500k CTS pots makes a huge difference for roughly $20, less muddy and sounds more like a Tele. If you want to go the whole-hog I had Jaime at the Creamery replace the old PuPs with his own Wide Range Humbucker upgrades (keeping the original Fender covers). This guitar now sounds the shit!
I only got to use this once when sonny let me, so in a way its not mine butttt... whatever
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da shit
Dis guitar is da real shit. Love it more than drugs -really nice tone, sustain and sweet sound
Don't know how to explain
fucking awesome! the one of the masterpieces ever made. That classic look and beatiful sound it had makes my soul flyin' high
I love my Tele and use it on must all of my tracks